Sharing baths?
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Anonymous
| We never had them start and it didn't have anything to do with gender. I just hate bathing 2 kids together, they get way too hyped up. |
Anonymous
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OP, yours are too old
Should not be together if either is beyond preschool |
Anonymous
You are the weird one. This is too old to bathe together. |
Anonymous
Why, exactly? Explain. I agree with the PP above that applying some adult lens of sexuality to a 7 year old is weird and inappropriate. |
Anonymous
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My kids are 4 and 6 and still bathe together. I let the older one sort of lead on that. Sometimes she asks to bathe or shower alone, and that's fine. The younger one always wants to be with her. They are getting too big for our bath tub, so they may need to move to showers.
But how long they bathe together I don't care at all. If one of them doesn't like it, we'll stop. |
Anonymous
5 is too old to start this. That’s around the age you should stop. |
Anonymous
| When they started complaining about it. At some point they just didn’t fit in comfortably anymore and the older one complained about wanting to bathe alone. |
Anonymous
At that age, only if they have swimsuits on, and it is a big tub like the size of a hot tub. |
Anonymous
| We stopped when oldest hit ~ 4 but only b/c #3 came along and the youngest 2 were same sex. In other countries many people are more comfortable with this so culture matters. My SIL in Europe goes to a indoor swin /sauna and in certain areas everyone is naked. |
Anonymous
Same- it's the older one showering and losing interest in playing in the tub with little sib. It happens naturally and these older ages aren't weird at all. |
Anonymous
| Not quite the same thing, but my son's best friend is a girl he's known since they were 2 (they're both 10 now). When they were much younger and Larla would sleep over at our house, we'd let them take a bath together, but this stopped after K. |
Anonymous
How do they even fit in a tub together??? I have a 6 year old and a3 year old and it’s to tight for both of them to share. I think we stopped at 4 and 2. |
Anonymous
| Either if they ask or bath behavior starts getting inappropriate. Whichever comes first. For us it was 5 and 7 or maybe 6 and 8 |
Anonymous
| My 5 and 3.5 year old (girl and boy) do. No plan to stop until they don’t fit. |
Anonymous
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I have a 7.5 DD a 5.5 DD and 2 DS. They take a bath together all the time and love it. It’s super tight, but our son lives to be with his older sisters.
We are not American and do no sexualize naked bodies so I hope my kids will bathe together a lot longer! There is absolutely nothing wrong with being naked together and siblings and even learning about our anatomical differences... My parents and brother were/are often naked in front of me. It’s cultural... not wrong... please realize that YOUR ways are not right... they are just one way of seeing/doing things |