Dad taking a bath with young child

[Demjay]

Please help:
would you consider it normal for a dad to share a bath with his children : say 3-5 years? If you had other concerns , would this be a red flag , or is this just totally ordinary / acceptable dad behaviour?

Perfectly normal

My kids user to love a bath with DH, until they got too big to fit comfortably. But there aren't any other concerns. The other concerns might change the answer.

Would depend on what the "other concerns" were tbh.

On the face of it, no it's normal...but what are the other concerns?

Clearly depends on "other" concerns!

On its own perfectly normal!

Sorry should have said what the voting means :

YABU- this is normal.

YANBU- this is not typical.

Normal, my husband does it sometimes with our kids but he does wear boxers through his own choice, he doesn't feel comfortable with his privates out around the kids.

Very normal, dependent on other concerns that is.

This I understand …

DH would be mortified if DD saw him without his shorts. But otherwise I don’t think it’s abnormal, really does depend on the other concerns.

Definitely not done in our house as a child or a parent but that was our choice, other people are different.

It very much depends on the "other concerns".

But no I don't think it's weird in a vacuum, my DH bathed with our daughter when she was little. Nudity means very little to children at that age.

Are they his kids? How would you feel if someone raised the same concerns with you, as their mum?

What are your other concerns? This alone wouldn't bother me.

Don’t think it’s the same

I do think btw that if we had a son instead he’d be a lot more comfortable about being naked.

Totally normal. My children love it when one of us hops in the bath with them.

Well nothing wrong with it. Would it be ok for Mum to bath with children of that age?

Hang on... so mum can share a bath with her kids, but dad can't?

Why isn’t it the same?

Don’t think it’s the same

Well it is.

On its own - quite normal

Why isn’t it the same?

And yes, on its own, it’s completely normal.

Of course it's normal.

If you have other issues then that's a totally different thread. No one can possibly comment on that but in a normal father/child relationship then there should never be an issue with kids that young sharing a bath with a parent of either sex.

Don’t think it’s the same

Why?

It's exactly the same. It's a parent