ok to bath ds and dd together.

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DS is 4 and dd 9months. I recently started doing this as it was about the only thing they can do together. My friend saw and said she would for two boys or two girls but not one of each my reaction was to look at her like this .

She also said it was unhygenic to be mixing their dirt and germs which again I thought . And said surely they have each others germs.

But I am now wondering if other people think it is weird and if not what age should I stop doing this.

your friend is crazy

Surely you let them bath together either until one of them becomes uncomfortble with the idea, or when they get too big to bath together anyway.

I certainly wasn't sharing baths with my sister when we were teenagers! Not sure when it stopped, well before puberty I would have thought - so gender irrelevant really.

Your friend is mad! 4 and 9 months? What is the problem? Probably stop when the 4 year old starts complaining about it as he/she gets older but honestly - that's madness.

really, really crazy!

Not weird - sensible! Your friend is an idiot.

Trinity is right. Your friend is mad.

No, other people do not think it is weird. They think your friend is weird.

Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of families have children of mixed sexes and bath them together.

My 9 year old dd and 6 year old ds still occasionally bath together (but they mainly have showers now).

she sounds nuts.

Your friend is nuts.

I have 3 Dc, 2 boys, 1 girl. I bathed them all together til eldest manky objected to littlest manky trying to yank his willy off!

Even now I bath dd 6 with ds 4 when I am in a hurry.

It's not a problem until they are not comfortable with it, imo.

Agree with the others - she is a bit mad. They are tiny children. My DD aged 2 goes in the bath with DS1 aged 6 and DS2 aged 4. The DSs don't go in together any more as they don't fit (and annoy each other too much...). I'm sure they'll tell me when they want to be on their own.

(But I wouldn't put them in together if one of them was ill, actually)

My DH declares that you should de-friend this person! Might be a bit dramatic but you get his drift...

My 3 get a bath together still! DS 5yo, DD's 4yo & 15mo. DS is getting a bit big but doesn't yet want to bath alone! I'm now taking the girls out first to get him some time alone so I can gradually start doing them in 2 goes. Have always bathed them together!

Saves water, heating bills, bubble bath and time! Wouldn't think twice about it!

Thanks ladies I thought she was being a bit silly it is practical, eco friendly and ds and dd love to have fun together. She can be a bit funny sometimes, particularly about cleanliness.

If they were 14 and 9 she may have a point. She sounds off her head. Hope you take all her advice with a big pinch of salt from now on.

DS is 6 and DD is 2.10 and they love having a bath together.

I think your friend is weird.

Mine bathed together until there wasn't enough room which was about the time that our oldest thought she might like to go on her own.

It's what you do in families isn't it?!

So, let me get this straight - girl germs and girl germs can mix, and that's ok, and boy germs and boy germs can mix, but not boy germs and girl germs? Holy smoke - someone alert The Lancet!

She is a bit weird and childless I have known her for years and used to annoy her by lying on her bed she would go nuts saying I was shedding dead skin all over her bed and that she had to lie in it .

She does have a heart of gold though and always there if needed (even if her advice can sometimes be a bit insane unusual)

Your friend is very odd, I bath my dd and ds together, and sometimes I get in too, can't be bothered running three baths!

Your friend is a nutjob - its fine for a boy and girl to share a bath at that age!

DS is 8 and a half and DD is 16 months and I've just stopped bathing them together, mainly because DD kept trying to grab his willy but also because DS seems much more grown up all of a sudden and it seems more inappropriate-especially when he said he 'didn't mind' DD grabbing him.

Hard to explain, but his face and body look older-he's definitely an older child now IYSWIM

Major OCD issues going on there by the sound of it .

I think you'd struggle to find anyone else (esp those with children) who had a problem with this.

Poor woman - must be hard being so stressed about dirt all the time .

Does your friend have any other pearls of wisdom we can all have a laugh about?

Your friend is a loon. Ds (6) and DD (7) still share a bath - they really are completely uninterested in each others 'nekid' bits. If and when that changes they will bathe separately

Why on earth would you listen to the opinions of a childfree friend on bathing children together. She knows nothing. Have a little more confidence in yourself.