My kid hasn't taken a bath since last Sunday

[Anonymous]

It is not the nanny's responsibility to bathe your children!! I work full time and bathe my 2 children under 2 every night.

[Anonymous]

Do your kids not play outside? Mine get so dirty.

1+. I am a totally half-assed parent but my kids (3 and 5) have a bath daily. They are usually filthy by day's end - dirt, paint, food, more dirt. (It's basically the only way I can get under their fingernails clean - a 20 min soak.) Plus all the sunscreen, bug spray, etc. Do folks not go outside?

Also, if we happen to skip more than a day, I can definitely "smell" them!

[Anonymous]

So gross. I'm much too much of a germaphobe to go more than 2 days! My son is only 2, so maybe that's different. But he will put his hand anywhere, and thinking about all of the things, people, dirts, germs, he touches during the day is so gross. Then you put your child in their bed like that?? How often do you wash sheets?

Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Nanny here and I wouldn't work for a mother who refused to bathe her children but once a week. I would be embarrassed to take the children out.

It's not a matter of refusing to do it. It's about having other things to do. If you're a nanny, bathe them yourself. The fact that you couldn't think of that solution yourself and would rather quit makes me somehow think the parents lucked out on that one.

Stop embarrassing yourself, PP. I assumed (wrongly as it seems) that a mother who refused to bathe her own children at night did so from a position other than just being lazy. Clearly I was wrong.

Are you a nanny from 1950? Lol. No fathers doing bathing. Just mothers.

NO here and stop, PP. you are just being contrary and it is boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not the nanny's responsibility to bathe your children!! I work full time and bathe my 2 children under 2 every night.

i had 3 different nannies and they all thought bathing children was very much their responsibility.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is not the nanny's responsibility to bathe your children!! I work full time and bathe my 2 children under 2 every night.

i had 3 different nannies and they all thought bathing children was very much their responsibility.

I think you missed the point. If a parent refuses to bathe a child, it is the nanny's problem to solve? That is a parenting issue, you don't want to care for your children at all?? Maybe you should have thought about all that parenting entails...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is not the nanny's responsibility to bathe your children!! I work full time and bathe my 2 children under 2 every night.

i had 3 different nannies and they all thought bathing children was very much their responsibility.

I think you missed the point. If a parent refuses to bathe a child, it is the nanny's problem to solve? That is a parenting issue, you don't want to care for your children at all?? Maybe you should have thought about all that parenting entails...

huh?

if a parent judges that bathing a child say, once per week, is enough then there is no problem to solve.

if a parent wants nanny to bath children whatever number of time he wants, then that's what nanny's job is.

[Anonymous]

This thread is actually making me itch. Y'all are nasty. My kids bathe daily. My teens shower twice a day because of sports practice. I could see maybe every other day during the winter with young children. But once a week? That's just gross. You can't smell your kids because you have become desensitized. Trust me, they stink. People are just too embarrassed to say anything.

[Anonymous]

Febreeze

[Anonymous]

Are you depressed?

[Anonymous]

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I'm not sure if some of you aren't making this up, it's so shocking to me.

I'm the weekly poster, and sometimes we're busy on Sunday so we push it a day or two. Should we do it a bit more? Probably. Is is a big deal? Not at all. Even the American Academy of Dermatology says once a week is fine for kids aged 6-11 (https://www.aad.org/public/skin-hair-nails/skin-care/child-bathing).

If you want to be shocked, here are some things that I think are more important than exceeding the recommended bathing frequency:
"Nationwide, 70 percent to 90 percent of parents hit or slap their children" - http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2014/04/29/spanking-may-be-more-common-than-parents-admit
About a third of children drink more than 2 sodas or similar drinks a day. - http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/health/sugary-drinks-children-cdc-study/
Most low income kids don't have books in their home - http://bookharvestnc.org/why-books/statistics/

You've set the bar very, very low for good parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So gross. I'm much too much of a germaphobe to go more than 2 days! My son is only 2, so maybe that's different. But he will put his hand anywhere, and thinking about all of the things, people, dirts, germs, he touches during the day is so gross. Then you put your child in their bed like that?? How often do you wash sheets?

Ugh.

If you really are a germaphobe you should be bathing your kids less. Excessive bathing and exposure to chemicals in antibiotic soaps leads to athsma, allergies, eczema, auto-immune problems in some children. Aap recommends once a week bathing for kids. You are likely doing more harm than good.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/parenting/wp/2015/02/26/why-you-should-stop-giving-your-kid-a-bath-every-night/

[Anonymous]

7-10 days is just lazy...and dare I say, borderline neglectful.

Yuck. Seriously, it takes 10 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Just chiming in as a parent who gives her son a bath twice a week....on a good week. He's 2. And he doesn't NEED a bath more than that. Sometimes we'll "spit clean" him before bed (washcloth on the face, arms, arm pits, etc.). And if I can smell him, he bathes. Otherwise....it's really not necessary.

So OP, more power to you. Especially for admitting it!

[Anonymous]

Really gross. Maybe OP is a total helicopter parent? I let my kids get messy because that is best for them.