hairwashing nightmare

[leoandmummy]

my ds is 2.10 and has always loved his baths but noth having his hair washed. have been bad because have let it slide and only been washing it once a week . his head has been itching and he seems like he might have dry skin on his scalp (?) so gave him a good hair wash night before dispite screams with help of his dad. he screamed and climbed out of bath and wouldn't get back in. same thing tonight although i was doing it on my own. he was saying after 'scared of bath' i'm worrying that this will become a problem for the bath altogether and the hair washing thing is awful

any ideas?

Not much advice but I sympathise. My DS (2.8) is the same and has pretty filthy hair now. Occasionally both DH and I force him but have not found a better way (bribery, DH letting him wash DH's hair etc), so look forward to responses. Bathing wise I got him to do it by lots of small steps - giving a favourite toy a bath in a washing up bowl, helping wash toy in the bath etc then he just got in. Haven't found a similar route hair wise.

the bath is fine but i'm worried he's going to dislike baths because of hairwashing. he wont get back in afterwards.

i should think once a week is ok for hair washing. ds got flakey scalp once at about 18m, i put oil on and it all came off no problems since.

can you find out what he specifically hates about it? generally getting wet, wet ears, water in eyes, shampoo???

My DS is the same - he's 4 in March and its only recnetly that he's even got IN the blardy bath, let alone had his flipping hair washed! beast.

Now he's a bit older, he will "let" me do it without too much fuss (but he does cry ) - think once a week is OK, and hopefully he'll get better as het gets older