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Do you bathe/shower with your child(ren)? Are they the same sex as you or the opposite sex? When will you/did you stop?
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southgatedr
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| My son is 10 mths and we take showers together. Sometimes dad gets in the shower with us. I don't think there is anything wrong with taking showers with your kids whether male or female, it's innocent, afterall it's a bath/shower. |
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| I (mom) shower with my almost-5 year old daughter every morning and have forever... As of this year, 7 year old son showers by himself usually but, if he wanted to jump in the shower with one of us for expediancy, it would be no big deal. I know lots of people stop being "naked" in front of their kids at 2/3/4/5 but, in our family naked bodies just are not a big deal. In fact, nakedness is considered fun and free and, at night time, my kids still love to run around naked upstairs and shake their tushies at us. I am sure I will get flamed by some for this but whatever.... We are an incredibly normal, loving, happy family and nakedness is just a human body, no more, no less, no big deal (within the family only though). |
Anonymous
| I shower occasionally with my almost 2.5 year old son (although he prefers playing in the bath!) |
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I showered with my father when I was a preschooler and it really grosses me out in retrospect. I really didn't like remembering what my father's penis looked like when I was 8, 9, 10, and beyond.
Needless to say, I don't shower or hang out with my kids naked. |
Anonymous
What about your mom's boobs? Does that gross you out in retrospect too? |
Anonymous
| Our daughter is one, and we both shower/bathe with her as needed. Usually, I find it easier to bathe her from outside the tub. But sometimes if we're in a hurry and everyone needs to clean up, one or both parents will shower with her. I don't see any reason to change the practice any time soon. I guess when she's old enough to bathe alone, and actually get herself clean, there will no longer be a need for tandem-bathing. |
Anonymous
i'm guessing it doesn't, but as everyone loves to say "it's a cultural thing"... i bathe with dd occasionally but it's getting pretty tight space-wise and she's not even 5 yet.. |
Anonymous
| My husband and I don't bathe with our 2 yr old son...ever. Probably never will. Just so not our thing. We don't co-sleep either. |
Anonymous
| I can't wait for my DH to shower with our DS just to save some time. But that probably won't happen until DS is standing. Question, do babies not mind the water raining down on them? I have a feeling my DS won't like that one bit. |
Anonymous
Probably depends on the baby, but also what they're used to. We've been showering with our daughter since she could hold her head up, and she's cool with it. She prefers the bath, of course, either solo or with one of us. More duckies, more fun. |
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Anonymous wrote: I showered with my father when I was a preschooler and it really grosses me out in retrospect. I really didn't like remembering what my father's penis looked like when I was 8, 9, 10, and beyond. Needless to say, I don't shower or hang out with my kids naked. What about your mom's boobs? Does that gross you out in retrospect too? ----- I wasn't really a huge fan of seeing my mother naked either. I think I have a plenty healthy attitude today about nudity -- I'm not at all shy about walking around naked in front of DH, love having sex with the lights on, I guess I am just one of those people who thinks that the naked body is mostly a sexual thing, and I prefer to share mine with a sexual partner, not my children. I did the skin-to-skin thing all the time when my kids were infants. I know lots of people disagree and think kids should see their parents' naked bodies well into the preschooler and elementary school years...to me, once the kid is old enough to remember it, that's when the kid is too old to see it on a regular basis. That just my opinion though. OP asked what people thought, this is what I think, and it's based on my experience. |
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If I weren't at work, I would get into this a bit more, but for now -- ew, I was grossed out by both my parents when I was little. |
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yeah, i am in the no-nudity-after-age-two camp. and i, too, have a very healthy attitude about sex and bodies (i even like mine!)....my parents both strolled around naked in front of all of us kids and i'm still shuddering to this day. ick.
my DS is 13 months and i was putting some cream on his head when i got out of the shower. i had to laugh b/c i was leaning over him nude. thank g-d, he'll never remember that!! |
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| This is one of those issues where I think (I hope!) no one can get too up in arms. As long as you're not teaching your two-year-old that nudity is evil and the body is Satan's playground, and as long as you're not still showering with your 13-year-old of either sex, I think we can all agree that it's a personal preference/ comfort issue. |