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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m always fascinated by the “not-every-day” bathers. We always did every day from when they were sitting up (supervised, of course.)
For us, it was less about cleanliness/stickiness and more about the all-important bedtime routine. Taking the bath was a really important part of wind down time. Because it was such an ingrained thing, we never got the resistance I hear about from PPs or some of my relatives.
It’s really a shame in the case of one kid I know, who at age six, after a day of running around is definitely in need of a bath, but it has now become a battle royale in their house, as the parent (who is not-so-great in many ways) just doesn’t want to put in the effort, so the kid... smells. I’m a bit worried for when he goes back to school this fall.
PPs—-I’m not saying *your* kids smell. I don’t know them! 
Like I said, for us is was every day and it was because it was part of the routine bath—>books—>bed.[/quote]

Yes, to all of this. In fact DD (now 6) has such a strong association between bath and bedtime that she didn’t go to sleep when we had an evening babysitter because the babysitter didn’t bathe her (so she laid awake in her room until we came home to give her a bath). I’m grateful for it because she absolutely needs a bath to remove bug spray and sunscreen in the summer, and when she’s really active she gets sweaty and that stinks.  I’m in no way a perfect mom, and DD fights/pushes boundaries on countless issues, but bathtime is not one of them. [/quote]

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