To ask when you started shower your DC instead of bathing?

[laraitopbanana]

Hello,

Really, just my question :)

I think from 4 or 5. Every other night. 7 year old can now do himself, so can 5 year old but she has long hair that we need to rinse ourselves. They really loved their baths but what a bloody mission they were! After a month of moaning showers became accepted. Best thing we did!

When she almost drowned and became very scared of the bath. She never liked water.

DD is 4 and has recently started having showers. Some with me, some I stand in the cubicle with her but just hose her down she loves them and they’re so much quicker than a bath!

We didn't have a bath so once they outgrew the sink. I'd pop the baby bath in the shower.

Mine are 6&3 and get a choice of shower or bath. The 3 yr old often raids my showers (like today) so is supervised. My 6 yr old can be trusted to shower himself but I do stay on the same floor of the house as the shower door is a bit loose.

My child is 7 and refuses to have a shower. Still baths here. Washes himself but I have to wash his hair...really hope I'm.not still doing this when he's 15 😅

I don't have a shower only a bath, my my DC went to stay with my mum (she only has a shower) she's 3..and I often had messages from my mum saying she'd stripped herself down and turned the shower on herself! She loves them. Often asks to go to nannies for a wash now!

My dd (10) only started having showers in the past year, she still prefers a bath though.

I let them choose but usually they prefer a shower as it's quicker and our new shower is a rainfall power shower that they absolutely love. They sometimes prefer a bath if they've got cold and wet outside. Since we thought of using swimming goggles when they wash their hair it's been easier, too!

(I guess they were about 9 and 7 when they started switching to showers)

My dc prefer a bath still (oldest is 8). I'm 31 and would still choose a bath over a shower.

My almost 7 year old usually has a bath because he enjoys it and it calms him down before bed but from about 5 he'll have a shower instead quite a few nights a week when we're out of time.

When 8 year old DS started to pong, the morning showers started for him (speed) and the evening baths remained for the 6 year old. (Although he will quite often still hop in bath with bro as well!)

My girls love the shower. We took my youngest into the shower as baby with one of us as was sometimes easy than a bath. Then started from about 1 having showers with us now and then. My eldest by 2 wanted showers more than a bath and at 3 could go in on her own with us in the bathroom helping her. She would just take her clothes off and get in if she heard us in the shower and wanted one.

when they go in the bathroom by themselves and don't need me.

We usually use showers on holiday from 1 year old, so they are used to them but it's easier for me to bath them if I have to be involved.

Thanks all!!

My first was about 6 weeks when I took her in the shower with me, the others had showers from the earliest time they needed a wash.

I showered mine as soon as he was old enough to cope with water in his face. Maybe about 3-4 months old.

My 2.5 year old has come in the shower with me from time to time pretty much since he was old enough to sit up. In fact, we went on holiday with him when he was 5 months and several of the places we stayed had no bath so we held him in the shower - I wouldn’t recommend that, holding a slippery soapy baby in the shower is terrifying! Once he could happily sit though he seemed to prefer sitting in the shower with me and some bath toys than sitting on the bathroom floor while I was showering. Since he started being able to open the bathroom door I’ve only been able to shower if DH isn’t around if he’s in there with me so it’s a good job he enjoys it. If he’s woke up wet in the morning (that’s a whole other thread!) then he sometimes comes through to me, says ‘DS go in mummy’s shower’ and starts stripping off! He usually has a bath in the evening but if he’s resisting that then we’ll give him the choice of a shower instead and he’ll sometimes choose that instead.

11 months! My ds was walking from 10 months and we went on holiday at 11 months and he had a shower with dh, and hes done so ever since . Its sooo Much easier and he loves it.

@DrWhy
Thanks, I was wondering for two reasons... the "normal everyday life" and holidays too. Thanks all! It is all covered

About 4, but baths were always the fun option. We have rainwater tanks, so water shortages were often a consideration (showers use less water).

My oldest is six and only bathes. What’s wrong with bathing?

from a few weeks old, either my husband or i would take a shower and then call out and the baby would be handed over for a shower and then handed back out to be dressed and dried while whomever was in the shower got to get out and get dressed, also if anyone of us wanted to bath we would do the same just before we got out, ( we dont use the bath often, maybe a few times a year)
its a lot easier and faster, when my husband was away, i just placed my son in his big donut thing and grabbed him as i was almost finished with my shower, and once he could sit i used one of those bath seats that suction to the shower base, even better

I found the limiting factor was being talll enough to work the shower by themselves, but I have small for their age kids. So it was from about 7yo. They could start their own bath runnning well before that (though had to climb into the bath to put he plug in first) but I supervised baths until age 7 because one of them got stuck upside down in the bath aged 5 and it scared me.