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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stay in the bathroom and start with what needs to get done. Start and the top and move down. So shampoo, conditioner, face wash, body soap and scrub all of the parts. Then she gets a three (?) minute timer to finish rinsing everything and get out.

Tell her she’s wasting water and time.

When she can do it all on her own reliably, you don’t have to be in there anymore. [/quote]

OP here. Thanks. This is what we did all last year and I thought we'd gotten to the point where we could leave but I guess not. Ugh.

I sometimes feel like all I do is tell her what to do. Hang up your coat, get out your homework, come eat dinner, straighten up your room, take a shower, get ready for bed, okay lights out in 30, okay lights out. She's a good kid and mostly does what we ask but I was hoping we could get a bit more independence this year so I don't have to feel like such a task master every single night. I'm doing all this for multiple kids while also getting my own evening chores done and sometimes my head just feels so exhausted from having to juggle it all that the idea of spending 10 minutes babysitting a shower is like.... aaaaaaah! I cannot.[/quote]

Why not just… let her take long showers? I take really long showers. They’re lovely. Zoning out in the shower is a delight. Why must everything be rushed and purposeful? Especially with these feelings above… just let her do it her way in her own time. [/quote]

Because she will take a 20 minute shower, the water will get cold, and then she's crying because she's still got conditioner in her hair that she hasn't washed out and she never did body soap.

I would be fine with the long shower if she emerged clean and relaxed. A 20 minute shower that depletes our hot water and she's not even clean plus she's upset? No thank you.[/quote]

Just buy a conditioner that’s already a leave in and doesn’t need rinsing. If she doesn’t use soap it’s not the end of the world.[/quote]

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