to be shocked at how many parents don't....

[formerbabe]

bath their children every day!

Following on from the thread about a poster not changing her children into pyjamas, I was surprised reading the responses how many people say they only bath their kids a couple of times a week.

I bath mine every night before bed and always have done, bar illness or something catastrophic happening in my day. On the rare occasion they have had to miss their bath, I have done a quick wipe down with a flannel, but they never seem clean after it. My kids seem to get filthy during the day, mud/food etc.

I know those kids who have excema cannot always have a bath everyday, but for anyone else it just seems like pure laziness to me.

Ds3&4 go in most nights, they tend to get food in their hair and its easier to just put them in the bath.

Also they tend to be a bit mardy from 4 oclock on wards so plonking them in the bath means I get a bit of a break from the moaning while they splash around for half an hour

squoosh I have plenty of hobbies, thanks. I do a load of washing everyday. Will prob get berated for my wastefulness because of that, too! Anyway, off this thread now, need a bath

Not a bath, just something to occupy your mind.

Something lik neighbourhood watch?

Most people are perfectly rational and don't much care what others do.

Mumsnet is excellent though . Based on this thread I am going to equate number of baths with how thick one is now because some of the posts make the case for cleanliness with a definite Jeremy Kyle vibe,

Are you rank madam? Yes or no?

Oh and pj's every other night here

Living in filth dulls your sense of smell and you start thinking that filthy stink is NORMAL and it is not. But you only realise this when you get out of the stink and in clean conditions with no offending smells.

That said, I am not saying that small kids stink, but I am saying that they do have a particular 'unwashed' smell, just like every being who has skin, pores etc etc.

^^^ THIS!!!!! I agree!

If that poster had any credibility you've just lost it for them needaninsight two baths a day! Kerazy...

Bwahahahaha ...

Yes Jezza.

I hate the overwhelming smell of biological washing powder, should I start a thread

I'dkick I'm amazed you can even smell biological powder, what with how you have desensitised your nose with the squalor you live in...

Better stinking of bio wash powder than reeking of BO and crawling with nits etc....

Yeah ok Funlovin still not biting I'm afraid

Eau de Jeremy Kyle guest, Bio washing powder with a hint of fag

Why do you put bio washing powder on your kids?

Is there a way of distinguishing between the smell of a child who has not been scrubbed in one day, two days and three days? Is there a detectable difference in 'nose' between a one bath a day child and a two bath a day child. Could be a whole new are of fascinating study.

What on earth are you talking about, FunLovin? What have nits got to do with anything? You do know there is no connection between cleanliness and nits? I thought everyone was past that sort of ignorance by now, but I guess those who worry about smelly kids after a day don't really think too deeply...
Again, all you beth obsessives, nobody is saying they don't wash, their kids, just that they don't bath them every day. Perfectly easy to clean a child without a big bath full of water.

Orm
I think you are stretching the limits of 'fascinating' there

I'm waiting for someone to post 'and your mum'
It's getting close...

ormirian
is it possibly like the difference between ham and naice ham?

I don't bath mine everyday at all, no smelliness here.

I did however used to do Johnson and Johnson product research and they were amazed when I told them, midwives usually said cotton wool and water is fine for babies bottom and def no need for oils and powder. ( new borns)

they said they were talking to college of MW to educate them on this

its a load of bollocks sold to us by cleaning companies!

I wonder if op loses sleep over this and other child rearing "issues"

Im with Moomins
Mine had a bath every evening as part of their bedtime routine.
They had a great time peeing in the water and making "cups of tea Mummy"

Im really sad tbh thinking about Peaches and her little boys and the beautiful videos she posted .
Enjoy your Dc xx

DS has eczema and we bath him every other day and DD too just because that works. They don't smell and have a good wash. Don't see any problem with that/

You can enjoy your DC without giving them a full bath everyday, thats a low blow..