How often do you bath / shower your children and yourself

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I was talking to a friend today about baths and she was saying how long it took to bath them all (herself & two kids) in the morning and at night- i explained we only bathed at night and she looked at me in discuss.

So am i a dirty buggar or is it normal to only bath once a day

Ooh - I get really hot during the night. I always feel grubby in the morning, so I love having my hot shower (cool in the Summer) to wake me up...

dkdad, that is such a brilliant idea! All our rubbish gets dumped into landfill and the by-product of power stations seems to be steam, pumped into the air. Grrr. When will our lot wake up to this?

And I would like to move to Spain, SenoraPostrophe!

Suedonim, I'm from Tunbridge Wells originally, so I guess we both have migrated to the frozen north! I married a viking, perhaps you did too!

are you sure dkdad - it was minus 5 last night and very few houses have any proper heating. It´s costing us a fortune in leccy. Still, the sun is nice.

My kids get dry skin if I bath them too often, so it's every third day with strip washes most days.

Me, I vary. Sometimes every day, sometimes every other. Armpits get washed every morning, come what may (well, you did ask!)

DKdad, I'm married to another southern softie, from Staplehurst. We've been living in the tropics for about 18mths so this winter has been a shock to us. We've had faces.

Dh and me - shower every morning and sometimes a bath (for relaxing) at night. Maybe another shower if we've been out for a run. Weekends I might not have a shower if I'm just going to be doing stuff around the house - but I'll have a bath on Sunday afternoon, before going over to my parents for dinner.

Ds (3) has a bath about once every two weeks. he hates the idea of them - although once we've gone through the screaming match and forced him in, he quite enjoys it (not the hair washing though!). We usually try to get him in with us when we have our bath on a Sunday afternoon. He does have lovely skin though!

Dp and I daily,ds three times a week

DH and I shower in the morning, and we all have a bath in the evening (me, DH, DS1, DS2, DD), not together though ! We have HIGH water bills...

We all shower each morning and bathe in the evening - have been told before that this is too much but I like to be clean - DD has been bathed/showered everyday since birth too.

Sooooo think that makes you a dirty bugger

I shower every morning (partly for freshness, partly because I have short hair which stands up in all directions first thing in the morning!). dh also showers at some point every day. dd has a bath every night - not really necessary but is now part of the routine.

Well, generally DH and i shower every morning and bath every night. DD baths every night and i've stopped washing her hair everyday to discourage nits. now do her hair every 3rd day (unless she's got paint or whatever in it).

Yesterday DD had 3 baths, one in the morning because I was knackered earlier in the evening and then she put herself to bed at 7.15, one in the day because it was the quickest way for DH to remove the paint and make-up and one in the evening because she clambered into the bath with me. Am i the only one that hates having kids in the bath?

We shower in the morning and again at night. DD has a bath every night. But then I am Australian and we do tend to do this. And you know what they say about the English and soap!! (Joke! - no outraged replies please!)

I have a bath most evenings - well, maybe 5 out of 7. Only wash hair 1-2 times a week unless going out. Do have a proper wash if no bath though. DD bathes every night as she likes it.

You Australian just like to maintain the illusion of living in a hot climate and needing to shower IMHO Dh has never built up the grimey exoskeleton vital to survive a british winter because of this

Personally, I can't go to sleep if I feel smelly or dirty.

I don't really believe that sweating in bed thing, Chinchilla -- at least, not for me. I do get very confused how Brits can sleep under duvets in the summer, perhaps they all do sweat away. If I did that I'd get nightmares; Either I won't be able to sleep at all, or I'll wake up if I get even a bit hot, and get nightmares if I get a little hotter than that. Right now am sleeping under a very thin duvet, although the kids and DH are all under winter duvets (4yo DS is under 4 layers of duvet!).

Our house gets too hot for sleeping at night if we leave a thermostat on 24/7; Maybe it would be ok if we kept the thermostat at 10 degrees or so, but then the radiators wouldn't get hot enough to ever get the clothes dry and I think downstairs would be too cold (because the boiler is upstairs, and the rads have no individual controls, the rads upstairs all get too hot and the rads downstairs can't counter the influx of cold air from front or back door).

It's a rented house, btw, so we can't change the rad controls!

I'm with the Senora on this one. But I am off to have a bath now, before anyone accuses me of being Mrs Filthpacket!

At the moment I am having a shower in the morning and a bath at night .... hope no one thinks I am being excessive ...
I have always had a shower and washed my hair every morning since I was about 12 and I went into school and a boy asked my if it was raining outside .... my hair was greasy NOT wet and I died of embarrassment and ever since can not cope with a day without hair washing ...
The bath every evening thing is temporary as it is a means to relax when DS and DD have gone to sleep and I can chill out after a day of breastfeeding ... Although I love b/fing I need to have some time in the day when I don't smell like a dairy cow .... !!!!
When DD is bigger I shall go back to my daily shower and a bath in the evening now and again as a treat ....
DKDAD ... LOL at 'Don't use all the hot water' comment ... I grew up in Holland and found it most bizarre that there was limited hot water in the UK when I went to Uni!

Oh, and DS and DD bath every evening ... I think it is a good wind down for children and excellent as part of the bedtime routine .... Mind you, can't wait for DD to be big enough to bath with DS - two separate baths is a bit of a drag ......

Ooh Ghosty, kunt u nederlands spreken?

Zebra - I read it in a magazine, so believe it or not - your choice. All I know is that sometimes I wake up sweaty in bed, in the middle of the night. I could never then get up and go about my day without a shower.

tanzie ... ja, ik spreek een beetje Nederlands!

Dh & me shower. However, our shower is out of bounds at this time (we are renovating the bathroom at the mo), so we have to have a barff!

But 5monthold does love his 'barff' and has it every morning at about 10am (so much for the bed/bath routine). He still goes down at 8pm until 8am.

How long do your kids stay in the bath? DD is typically in about 20 minutes, but up to an hour isn't that unusual. I don't want to deal with tantrums just to pull her out. Having to set aside up to an hour twice a day (and sometimes she does have baths twice a day, given the opportunity!) do you get anything else done? I guess if we all got up at 6am or so every day.... But then the kids would need to be in bed by 6:30-7:30, and there'd be no time for bath and tea. I do know people that got into the habit of making their kids' tea just a half sarnies and milk, precisely because they didn't have time for a proper tea and a bath in the evening. I think 2 baths a day a bit like Drying Up I just don't have time for that!!

i bath (no shower till the bathroom is finished)
everyday wash hair 3 times a week boyf baths everyday cause hes a machanic if he didnt bath before he went to bed id kill him he would amke the bed sheets black! and dd has a bath every other day