Does your child take a bath every night?

[Anonymous]

Most days, but we only use soap on feet and bottoms every time. Hair always gets rinsed and is washed when it's dirty.

I only use soap on the rest of their bodies when they have something on them that needs soap to get it off.

We do remove shoes and wash hands first thing when we get home.

[Anonymous]

No one in my house bathes daily. It is not an issue. The only time I ever bathe daily is when I exercise/have sex daily. No one in my life has ever said that I smell bad.

I do make sure everyone brushes their teeth/hair twice a day though. So to each their own.

[Anonymous]

As a rule do they bathe daily - yes. Are there exceptions - yes

[Anonymous]

My son took a bath every night as part of bed time routine. Then when he started kindergarten, it was very stressful to pick him up at 6 pm, cook dinner, do homework, bathe, read, and be in bed asleep by 8. Not to mention soccer practice some evenings. Then I found out that most of the kids didn't bathe every night! I couldn't believe it. I was so excited that I could skip that step!! NOT!! My child was absolutely filthy every day when I picked him up. I think he used his body to sweep up the extended day room floors. So, bath every night, and I'm ashamed to admit how infrequently I changed his sheets, but he was ALWAYS clean when he went to bed!!
We did a lot of homework in the tub.

[Anonymous]

We do every other day, mostly because with activities, etc, it's one more thing to do every day. I have told my kids that starting at age 10, they will need to shower every day. Seems ok to me. We do an extra shower if we go to the pool/sunscreen/bug spray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I give both kids a bath daily. They love their bath time, plus I think it's one of the reasons they rarely get sick.

My every other day bathed kids also rarely get sick.

[Anonymous]

Yes with the very rare late night etc when we skip. Theyre grimy (boys 5 and almost 3). Who wants to get in bed like that?

[Anonymous]

everyday and almost never skipped since they were born, but only quick showers without soaping in winter.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. They have since they were a few weeks old.

They are boys. 8.5 and 11 and they like that time at night.

My boys are also extremely athletic and it would be gross for them not to shower/bath nightly after 90 min practices and germs at school.

DH and I shower before bed too. I hate the thought of climbing into bed dirty. Also, the allergens and pollution---good to rinse all of that off before bed.

I find it weird that people (even kids) don't bathe daily.

Btw, my 8-year old was playing in a hot and sweaty 70 minute soccer game Sunday evening and I heard the two moms next to me saying there would be no bath tonight. I was so skeeved out by that. The boys were also playing on turf--and sweaty. Yuck. Just yuck.

I find you weird and very uptight type A personality. I guarantee there is no other mom on your kid's soccer team like you and you already heard a few other moms not giving their kids baths. You are the abnormal one.

I have to assume that the mom's saying that they were not giving baths to the kids on the field playing soccer were being sarcastic. Baths may be missed for some reason, but if a kid is smelly and stinky, a bath is obviously needed.

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Anonymous wrote:Twice a week here, and one of the two times is at the pool. My six-year old has been asking to wash her hair more often, because her friends are telling her to, so I'm trying to figure out how to work it into our two-kids, one-(FT working) parent, zero-help, evening routine without encroaching on the other, more important to me, evening priorities (healthy dinner, daily music practice, book reading time).

Gross. If your six year old's friends are complaining, it's bad. Please don't do this to your kids. If you are depressed, get some help. It doesn't take long to bathe kids. A six year old can bathe while you cook supper.

Not the PP but you are a bitch. All you type-A judgy tiger moms are the worst.

I know, right? It's so weird. I just linked to the American Academy of Dermatology above, and those doctors say 6-11 year olds only really need 1-2 baths per week unless there's something else like sports involved. Despite medical/scientific evidence, these moms continue to clutch their judgy pearls. WTF.

Busy single parent, just don't worry about it. Those other priorities you mention are so much more important. Your six year old will be able to give herself showers more often by the time she really needs it.

Thank you!! I do think it's pretty funny one PP would assume I'm depressed because I prioritize other very positive things.

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Anonymous wrote:Twice a week here, and one of the two times is at the pool. My six-year old has been asking to wash her hair more often, because her friends are telling her to, so I'm trying to figure out how to work it into our two-kids, one-(FT working) parent, zero-help, evening routine without encroaching on the other, more important to me, evening priorities (healthy dinner, daily music practice, book reading time).

Gross. If your six year old's friends are complaining, it's bad. Please don't do this to your kids. If you are depressed, get some help. It doesn't take long to bathe kids. A six year old can bathe while you cook supper.

Not the PP but you are a bitch. All you type-A judgy tiger moms are the worst.

I know, right? It's so weird. I just linked to the American Academy of Dermatology above, and those doctors say 6-11 year olds only really need 1-2 baths per week unless there's something else like sports involved. Despite medical/scientific evidence, these moms continue to clutch their judgy pearls. WTF.

Busy single parent, just don't worry about it. Those other priorities you mention are so much more important. Your six year old will be able to give herself showers more often by the time she really needs it.

Thank you!! I do think it's pretty funny one PP would assume I'm depressed because I prioritize other very positive things.

Baths are "important things" especially given that you said your daughter's friends were telling her to wash her hair. Poor kid.

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Baths are "important things" especially given that you said your daughter's friends were telling her to wash her hair. Poor kid.

Are you for real? This is almost comical. Perhaps you spend too much time bathing and grooming but not enough time on self-reflection.

[Anonymous]

My kids have a real bath about every week. They do clean up every other day with a wash cloth and soap (more if stinky).
Hair washing only happens every week or more. Their hair is coarse and really dry and washing it often damages it.
Their skin is also very dry and flaky, so too many chemicals/too much washing doesn't do them any good. My oldest (9) does put on deodorant and lotion daily, because she needs it.

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Anonymous wrote:I figure out shower days with sports/PE days. So this season it is Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday night. Sometimes we have to do Saturday depending on our activities.

Same here. They wash their faces every day (and when puberty hits they wash up to three times a day). We don't wear shoes in the house. I grew up on a farm - there's a reason why farm kids have fewer allergies and stronger immune systems. We didn't bathe every day but did always remove our shoes before entering the house, changed out of school clothes when we came home and washed our hands every time we came in from the barns/fields. If our clothes were really dirty, we'd take them off on the porch.

Unless there's a medical need, changing the pillow case every day is just insane - as is changing the sheets twice a week. Or, maybe you've got more money than sense if it's your housekeeper that's doing it.

This isn't true. I grew up on a farm and didn't bathe daily either, but I have terrible allergies and went through a period in my late 20s were I was sickly all the time.

Guess you're one of the exceptions:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/09/03/more-evidence-that-the-key-to-allergy-free-kids-is-giving-them-plenty-of-dirt-and-cows/

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6252/1106

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This must be a cultural practice where parents don't bath their children everyday. Children should be taking baths daily. Children play all day and become dirty. This should not be a question.

This! So many germs at schools
They already eat sitting on the ground (and nap with their shoes on in preK).
At least give them a bath before putting on CLEAN pjs and putting them into CLEAN sheets