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To still bath my dc together

35 replies

notnow2 · 05/04/2015 21:33

They are ds1 7, ds2 6 and Dd3. They have fun still and it is quicker.

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ReginaBlitz · 06/04/2015 01:11

To the poster that baths with her 8 year old son? Wtf

Summeblaze · 06/04/2015 01:34

DS1 (7 but seems younger due to learning difficulties) and DS2 (3) always bath together and DD (11) has one separately although sometimes if she sees the boys having fun she will jump in there with them. If they are ok with it, it seems silly to make an issue with it.

CadMaryzCremeEggzAreASwizz · 06/04/2015 01:42

Keep going until they don't want to.

I have a lovely photograph of my kids and their cousins (aged 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 1) all in the bath together.

I think it was the last one, because the older ones didn't want to any more - not because i stopped them.

m0therofdragons · 06/04/2015 02:09

I suggested dd1 7yo had a bath without her sisters - dtds age 3 - and she was really upset. They all go in together until one doesn't want to. On holiday I was in the shower in the hotel after swimming and dh was going to get dc in to the bath. They all decided they wanted to shower with me so they came in one at a time for a quick hair wash. I don't have any issues with them seeing me naked.

SocialMediaAddict · 06/04/2015 09:39

My twins stopping bathing together aged 7.

HicDraconis · 06/04/2015 10:37

DS1 (8) and DS2 (7) still shower together. They both come in with me if they want to as well. I get showered and dressed in front of them, as does DH - we're very relaxed about nudity and bodies here. We use the loo with door open / unlocked too. When they start to get uncomfortable we will respect that, but right now things are fine.

JustCallMeDory · 06/04/2015 23:06

To Regina: wtf?

siblingrevelryagain · 06/04/2015 23:16

Mine are 8, 6 & 3. Eldest has just recently asked if he can bath alone, as he's a long lanky thing and it's now too much of a squash for all three together (and he likes to lie down). So what tends to happen now is the youngest two bathe whilst he has his nightly routine poo (creature of habit!), and then he gets 5 mins on his own (same water!) once they're out and getting pj's on. If it weren't the necessity of space we'd still have all three together and did until very recently.

Youngest also occasionally jumps in with me, and they all have no problem talking to me whilst I'm in the bath. Nudity is not an issue yet in this house! Nor, unfortunately for me, is privacy!

Ludways · 06/04/2015 23:22

My ds and dd bathed together regularly till ds was about 10 and then on occasion till he was 11. If they felt comfortable with it then I didn't see the issue. Him stopping wasn't a big deal it just sort of wained.

drbonnieblossman · 06/04/2015 23:44

Ds liked to bathe with me until very recently and he is 10.

No age rule whether parent or sibling, as long as both parties happy with it.

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