How do I get 3.2 DD to have her hairwashed?

[glassslipper]

Manage it about once a week at the moment and it's a pita. How can i make it fun?

Have you tried allowing him to lean over the bath? Mine kneel on a stool sometimes. Or maybe wearing swimming goggles?

We always got DH to do it and before she went into the bath, I shout to her "don't go stealing mummy's shampoo will you?" She thought it was really funny and I played on it and she wanted to let me smell her hair after she'd had it washed to show me it was my shampoo. Or get her to take her Barbies in and get her to wash their hair too at the same you do hers.

You can't really just make it easier. I use a cup and hold a towel over her face

hold the shower door shut and squirt shampoo over the top?

Sorry, her, not him.

DH always does it as she wont let me. She will often lie back to rinse the shampoo off. Might get her a doll to wash hair with. Like the idea of using my shampoo and making it a joke. might appeal to her.

any other ideas?

lol madmarchhare. tempting

It was a few years ago but I bought a foam visor from willkos. Worked a treat.

When mine lean over the bath, they use bath crayons and draw on the bath. It really distracts them

I bought one of those shields that looks like a visor and this worked well with my DD, in the last month she has started to have hair washed without it, she is same age as your DD. Also likes to feel how long her hair reaches down her back when it is wet, and look at the lights in the ceiling. Try Woolworths for a shield.

if she's in the bath, hold a folded flannel over her eyes and just do it really quickly if she gets distraught. We did this with DS and now he's fine and just puts his head back and waits for it to be done.

once a week is prob enough though at that age? I manage my 5 year old's once a week, 2 year old maybe twice as she gets lots of food in her hair when she eats, and paint
I tell them there's the easy way ( my way) or the hard way (when I have to force them to have it done) I just do it quickly and get it over with as soon as she is in the bath (2 yr old)

DS used to hold his swimming goggles over his eyes.

I like the idea of a visor/shield. We might be able to make a game of that.

I am often being tough about it and tbh I just dont want to, as I am the disciplinarian during the day too. I remember having great fun in the bath as a kid with all the bubbles and other than hairwashing she loves bathtime. We have puppet shows and she plays with toys. We play eyespy etc.

Oh! Forgot to say, our visor has fish, starfish, octopus on it with names. IF the visor happens to leak (it will only be a small leak but can cause great distress), we tell the naughty individual off for letting it leak. Works a treat. THey also have names written underneath them which DD thinks is great, as we identify them before the hair wash

We chant HEAD BACK EYES SHUT HEAD BACK EYES SHUT HEAD BACK EYES SHUT...

and she holds a face cloth over her eyes.

Tip I got off here was making a game of letting dd look for the spiders on the ceiling...she makes up a story about who's up there (elephants, tigers etc now)and it means she doesn't notice too much that I'm washing it (had to get a bit tough too). Also now make a bit of a fuss of bringing her downstairs after her hairwash two nights a week and she watches her beloved cbeebies for a few extra minutes while I comb it through (she has mega curly tangly hair so the brushing is my pita). Its a nice girly time to have with her as well.

ds (3.2) holds onto the bath handles and lowers himself down now - made things soooo much easier - we pay that you can't see his ears once they're underwater...

Ah, yes the spider trick - we look for CHOCOLATE spiders - a much more interesting species introduced to ds by his swimming teacher

Does it need washing? Remember she hasn't got grown up smelly sweat and greasy skin. Always question orthodoxies, I say!

It gets done once a week after she's been swimming. She still has cradle cap (she's had since birth) and has a tendency to have dry skin so I'd rather wash the chlorine off.

Glass - your DD and ine are very similar. My DD also had cradle cap, never treated it much to the angst of my MIL. However finally succumbed about 2 months ago and drenched her scalp in olive oil. Gave it a frim rub and then used a fine tooth comb and it all came out. She has an amzingly clear scalp now, and wasn't bothered a bit aboput this treatment.

macmama - we do the chant too, but add in MOUTH TIGHTLY CLOSED - you can rinse shampoo out of eyes more easily than get rid of the taste...

I have 2 dd's aged 3.5 and 18 months
...for shampooing, a small hand held mirror and I have to make funny shapes with their moussey hair

...for rinsing, I used to rinse using a sponge, pretend that we were at a hairdressers (just the chat was enough to distract) or chant "lie on your back and make your hair look like a mermaid's" then I very gently make sure all the soap has gone....until I learnt that both my girls have fantastic fun when I let them rinse each other's hair - I'm not allowed to pour water over their heads, but they positively look forward to doing it to each other.