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Be honest - how often do you bathe your kids?
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Anonymous
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Using water to clean oneself is NOT a waste.
Interesting fact: You can wash your body in 4 cups of water! I was forced to do that once when our water got cut off without warning in our decrepit apartment building, after a whole day of chores. Refusing to go to bed dirty, I gathered up the remaining water in our filter, warmed it, lathered with 1 cup and rinsed with the 3 others. Could not wash my (long) hair, though. It was painstaking, since I could not waste one drop, but it made me more sensitive to water shortage around the world. |
Anonymous
But the point I was making is that it's not necessary to clean many babies and children that often. Most people are just doing it as part of a bedtime routine because they read about it in a book or something (giving triggers about getting sleepy, etc.). Actually, I found that bedtime became a lot easier when I didn't do bath every night. It was only me that was used to that routine - the kids didn't care less if they went straight to there rooms instead of via the bath! |
Anonymous
| We're waiting until DD can bathe herself. 12 months in and she's starting to smell. |
Anonymous
| This thread has been eye-opening. You never know what goes on behind closed doors. Yuck. |
Anonymous
Irrelevant. |
Anonymous
"Big difference" is now irrelevant? |
Anonymous
| I don't understand why anyone even bothered to reply to this thread. Wasn't it obvious from the title that it was created so that anyone that didn't say 'every day' was going to get slammed? You know what works for your family, why even feed in to this nonsense? |
Anonymous
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Every night. She's 2.
She bathes and showers. |
Anonymous
| DD is 19 months old, and we bathe her nightly (and wash her hair) except on a rare occassion if she's too tired ~ then we may skip it all together which occurs maybe once every two or so weeks. |
Anonymous
| It depends what time I leave work. I bathe my kids once every 10 days. I save a lot of money that way. |
Anonymous
| bathe my 27 month old 2 times a week. |
Anonymous
| DS is 13 months and we bathe every night. Yes, it's part of our bedtime routine. He loves the water. I use soap every few days. Most nights are just fun splashing and playing with toys in the water. |
Anonymous
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My kids are 3 and 5, and they get a bath (with hair washing) about once a week in the summer and winter, and probably twice a week in the spring and Fall. In the summer, they are in the pool almost every day, so they stay pretty clean (except for their hair). In the winter, their skin gets too dry (they both have eczema) to do it more often. In the Fall and Spring, though, they play outside and get pretty dirty... so I do it about twice a week.
But yeah, I keep an eye on them. If they start looking grungy, they get a bath. But really, I think nightly baths for this age group just isn't necessary. Not knocking those of you who do it-- just saying for my kids, it doesn't seem necesary. |
Anonymous
I'm your type also. Kids pee and poop and sweat. little kids play. I vacuum the kitchen floor at least once a week and swept/cleaned areas where people ate more often when kids were little. Bathrooms get pee so are wiped more frequently. Kids always got bathed daily and based on the stench of some teenage girls i recommend getting the child in the habit now. Some teens bath 1-3 times per week even when menstruating and playing sports. many pools require showering before entry. |
Anonymous
I agree!! I don't get pee all over my hands when I pee, why do I have to wash? And, pee is STERILE! So, no germs to worry about. I obviously wash after pooping, but after peeing, it's really not necessary. |