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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sh*t, I'm doing it all wrong.  My 6 year old does not take her own baths, wash her own hair or put herself to bed.  WTF.......how do I stop this runaway train?[/quote]

You gotta know your kid. Is she one of those people who needs mental preparation, or one of those people who wants to plunge in? My girl needs time to mentally prepare. I announced to her one afternoon that that night she was going to take a shower. She cried as we walked half a mile to the train. Then we got home, I hauled her into the bathroom, told her to strip and while she did I explained how to get the right water temp and how to test it. Then I turned the water off and had her do it. Then I gave her an "emergency washcloth" on the side of the tub as far away from the water as possible, and told her to call me when she thought she'd finished washing her hair. Confirmed she could read "shampoo" on the shampoo bottle and "conditioner" on the conditioner bottle. When she called me back, I looked at her head and tapped the places she didn't get shampoo out. Then talked her through how to use conditioner, and rinse it out.

She had a GREAT time taking her shower, and now almost always takes them instead of a bath. She also makes her own lunches for school and her own breakfast during the school week.[/quote]

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