How often are you bathing your primary aged children?

[RedRobyn24]

My daughter is 4 and has just started reception. I also have a 9 month old.

At the moment I bathe both of them (sometimes together usually apart) every other day. Is this what other people do? I try not to wash DD1’s hair more than once a week

Are other parents really doing this every day?

To be honest this is a wider question about how the heck parents find the time for everything. I’m a SAHM as well, don’t know how two working parents do it AND make sure their children are eating well and the house is cleaned and the dog it walked and the reading home work is done… but also the child has downtime to just play as well 😬

Shower every other day or every day if he gets especially muddy

DD hates baths/showers so twice a week unless obviously dirty in between. She doesn't smell so assume this is fine. DS is now 13 so I make him shower every day.

Every day as part of bedtime routine. Bath, brush teeth, book(s), lights out.

It’s hard to fit everything in! I struggle to cram everything in on my own and would tend to bath DS twice a week when he was little in primary (once at the weekend so it can be more leisurely).

Around maybe year 5 or 6 he wanted to bath himself in private, so he could sort himself out while I washed up after dinner or whatever. So the struggle isn’t forever! Then in tween years you’ll just have to constantly nag them to step foot in the shower!

Oh. My little one is 8 and every morning I remind her to brush her teeth and knicker zone without soap just with water (on one's own). Later I will remind her about armpits as well. She has a proper shower once a week or two. I help her to wash her hair because they're very long and she doesn't want to cut them yet.

We do baths every day, but my DC really enjoy being in the bath so it doubles as downtime for them (they hate showers). They are old enough that I don't need to stay right by them in the bath any more and we only do hair washing every couple of days so I can get a few jobs done. They take turns now so while one is in the bath the other one is doing their reading book.

As for how we do it as two working parents, normally I do bath and books while DH does tidying/cleaning of living areas. We don't have a dog to walk though!

DD is 6 and we're on about 3 times a week, so about every 2-3 days. She needed a bit more in the height of summer but it's plenty at this time of year.

Every other day but during the heatwave they showered every day.

Every day. Always done it, we don’t use products though..

3 times a week, probably more often in summer when they’ve been out digging in the mud

We do baths every other day, but every now and then might miss one if we’re having a busy week. Hair wash once a week. Daughter is 7 so she will play in the bath with the door open whilst I tidy upstairs.
I ask her to thoroughly wash her hands/nails when they are dirty as I can’t stand the build up of dirt under the nails!

2 to 3 times a week. I always find it hard on school swimming week as then it becomes every night and it’s hard to fit it in. I wish we had a shower as it would make life a lot easier.

Nearly every day because they get really mucky now they’re older. In reception and year 1, less so as they wouldn’t get too messy and didn’t smell. Hair washed almost every time as their hair smells sweaty too.

Please tell me this is a joke!

A friend just baths hers once on a Sunday.

Every day - but not full scrub, and very gentle child’s Farm bath gel. Just to get the muck of the day and any poo and wee off them.

At that age, mine had a bath every night. They really loved it and it was part of the wind-down routine. If they hadn’t enjoyed the bath or they had eczema, it would have been less often. I don’t think they necessarily needed a daily bath, but it was fun for them and just part of the routine. I have really fond memories of the amount of giggling, playing, singing etc that went on during bath time. 💚

Every day - but hair wash every other day, unless visibly dirty or greasy. I have a DD in Reception and a DS in nursery.

mine are 8 and 10 and its been every day since they were babies. its always been part of bedtime routine

I always did a bath for all three of mine (usually all together) every night.

It was the routine we fell into shortly after each of them was born. Bath, bottle or cup of warm milk, teeth cleaned, bed, a short story and lights out.

As they grew we adapted it to a shower instead of a bath.

@Hundslappadrifa no, it's not. If you would explain a kid who hates water and splashes on the face why they need to do it, you will find it extremely hard to do. Especially if kid's skin is dry and they hated any sort of emolent cream on their body.
After all, I don't see any difference between kids that are washed once a week and any other day.

Most nights. My default is to do it unless we have something on in the evenings e.g. yesterday they skipped the bath because we had a babysitter coming and I wanted them into PJs early and tomorrow we’re going out for dinner so will be late home and they’ll go straight to bed. Hair I do only on a swimming day so that’s twice a week for both.

Really? No difference in a kid where no soap is used to wash off wee / poo residue just once a week, and those doing it every day / every two days.

there really is. I'm a teacher. You can smell the kids who don't wash often enough. Once a week really isn't very often to be moving some warm soap and water around the butt crack / feet / armpits/ etc.

We do a shower or a bath every other day unless during a heatwave, when they've got sweaty and dirty or when they're covered in suncream.

Every day, it's part of their sleep routine, it's not always for long though