She's 16 months old and cries when we wash her hair as the water gets in her eyes. I need a [insert product here]

[hub2dee]

Ta muchly.

I remember as a kid we had some large foam frisbee disc type thing that mum would stick over my head and it meant the water / shampoo didn't get into my eyes.

Do they do them for very young children, or is there another method / product ?

She doesn't really like being tilted / held at a funny angle whilst we pour etc. on her, so I think I need to do to her what my mum did to me, LOL.

give her a dry flannel to hold on her eyes

one of theses ?

Ooh, good idea. I think she will tear it off and look at it with disdain though, but will try that.

You need one of these . I've also seen them in Woolworths

yes you can get them i got mine from a pound shop but it was ages ago, its called soemthing like a hair wash shield

I'm sure you can still get the 'frisbee' thing.
Seen 'visor' types as well.

Tried mothercare/boots?

MOthercare sells them - foam visors to stop water and soap getting in.

Woolies does to, but found they were too big for my ds at that age.

Don't bank on them being miracle workers though. DS used to pull at his and let all the soap go through to his eyes. Also will still have to hold back their head a bit.

...foam frisbee thing, i got one in woolies recently - 'shampoo visor' maybe

Thanks nutty and Betty. I knew they must still be making something like this.

Yes, we had a large plasticky frisbee-style thing to stick on the kids' heads - probably sourced from Great Little Trading Co or one of the catalogues, someone else will know. Stick with what you know, eh?

I use swimming goggles.

(Oh and everyone else too).

Love the googles idea LOL. She will freak.

You can still get those shield thingys that we had as kids. Pretty sure mothercare/John Lewis stock them.

Or just be mean and go for it! "...one, two, three, here you have it (big tub of water over head)...there you are, well done, clever girl..."

Interestingly pouring water over their own heads was one of the first things ds and his wee friends did at their swimming lessons recently.

I don't know about the product but beware of not letting any water onto her face. I cupped my hand over my dd's heads and tilted their heads back so not water got into their little faces however when they started swimming lessons it bacame apperant they had a problem with water on their faces , eyes etc. dd1 is now over this and is very confident but dd2 still doesn't like it. In hindsight I would get a shampoo that doesn't sting eyes and chuck water all over them, they get used to it. A friends dd who started swimming lessons with my dd had this treatment and didn't have a problem with dunking etc before she could swim

(man, how popular are you, so many responses in the time it takes me to type mine!!)

huffing now...no one ever replies on my threads...

I think maybe because it's a very universal question / common product IYSWIM, and I'm just being dense, tassis.

set of ear plugs

And I should controlled cry too, Twig, huh ? huh ? Anyway, were none of my dates any good you big tease ?

what you talkin' about willis?

You said 'feed me cake, beatch' I said 'here are the dates I can feed you cake, beatch' and then you went silent cos you are just a big tease. The cake is now stale.

distraction - mine hated the plastic shield thing - I would lie them back in the bath and give a toy to hold while I did the nasty thing - careful of which shampoo...hopefully they get so engrossed with toy, they don't wory about the washing, then just put dry flannel to stop drips in eyes before sitting up.......
it takes long long long times to train DH's in this though, better to have unwashed hair, think it must be like ironing for men......

What is this thing called "ironing" of which you speak ?

Shields never worked on ours.

Training them to trust you and lie back is the only way really (you shouldn't be so scary, hub )

ggglimpopo's daughter doesn't go in the bath, she scoots around under a Niagara-style shower and chortles