Do the flexi jugs for washing hair actually work??

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I was just wondering whether it's worth getting one or not for my 16 mo....

i hadn't seen that before but it looks good. Will get one for my 3 year old i think, anything is worth a try, at moment hair washing is a big struggle. No idea if it works tho!

hello thankyouandgoodnight - I've just got one for dd. The best bit about it seems to be the photo of a smiling little girl on the label, obediently having her hair rinsed! DD is 16mth, and thought this was Very Interesting, with much close staring and pointing. She now tries to pour water from the jug over her head herself. There are still battles of will but it's much easier than an ordinary jug.

The battle of hair-rinsing wills ended for us when we started to use one of the plastic elephant watering cans like these. It's narrow spout makes it really easy to control exactly where the water goes and we have no trouble now.

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just do it quickly then distract

If you can just persuade them to sit up straight and lean their head back then it's easy to rinse with a shower head. In the meantime, that jug looks brilliant.

get them some goggles

the only thing that worked with dd1 was me pretending there were animals on the ceiling

ooooh can you see an...elephant????! how about a giraffe!!!!!!!!!!!????

lots of fake enthusiasm and losing the will to live

but it works as they tip their head right back so you can rinse

not too much shampoo and be quick

after months of FYIAD's technique my pecular 2 yr old has decided that he likes having water poured over his face and insists on doing it himself (go figure?!)

dotn wash it at all unless it is porridgey

Don't wash it unless it's got something disgusting in it. Their hair doesn't get greasy at this age so it really isn't necessary to wash it.

I thought it was worth a try, but it doesn't really improve over a shower because either way you do really need them to be looking up at the ceiling, which I can't get my 17 month old to do at all! At the moment mine's got bath toys living in it - I'll try it again when I can get ds to look up on demand - maybe it'll turn out that he doesn't need to look up quite as high as he would with a shower so it will be slightly better? Otherwise I might as well have stuck with the shower and saved the £6-7 I paid (got mine from JL).

PS A showerhead you can turn to make a smaller stream of water helps IME as you can direct that better. Even with that ds1 used to scream as if he was being murdered when we washed his hair. I've never heard anything like it: I'm surprised police cars didn't turn up to investigate!

please try the ceiling thing

I actually once taped a picture up there

fgs

but it does lesson the whinging and when they do eventually start to moan you have nearly finished

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Honestly, it doesn't need washing!

I agree - DS's hair gets washed once a week and everyone tells me what lovely shiny hair he has!

Yes but mine's hair (that sounds wrong somehow, do I mean 'the hair of mine'? Or 'mine hair' but that sounds like something from a war film) often does have something disgusting in it! Usually crusted porridge, tomato sauce, cheese sauce... something like that. And even if we were only to wash that out every now and then it's still easier if there's a way of avoiding the child getting upset!

Ds1's hair does not get greasy but it starts to matt and he looks like Russell Brand.

I do wash DDs once a week as she gets stuff in it plus it gets a bit matted and generally needs a rinse through at the very least. I only usually use baby shampoo if it's got in to a right old state, otherwise it's just bubbly bath water. I do need to actually get it wet though, hence the need for something other than a sponge or my hands to protect her eyes!

We got one and dd thinks it's such a novelty having her own jug (which doesn't get used by her baby sisters) she doesn't moan at all now. Worth £7 ime.

I have just bought one! Why does it have a divider in the middle of it???

I will report back after the next hair sluice at the weekend!!

crumbsdm - giggling at 'mine hair'

We got one as thought DS screams would bring Social services to the door at hair wash time (can onlly bear it once a week maybe less) it would work...if he kept his head still.... but he doesn't.....