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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does he refuse on a weekend when you are relaxed about time?  I'd focus on getting to the real reason, try to at least get one shower or bath on the weekend when you are both calm, let him wash himself with a washcloth during the week.  Once that is working, try to add the bath or shower during the week, but don't wait until you are both tired.[/quote]

It's always the same thing. He HATES showering. He hates bathing in general. If he knows that it's shower night he will go up without being asked and do the entire bedtime routine himself just so that he can say that he's all ready so he can't shower that night. He will run away. He will sit in the bathroom for hours (yes, even on a weekend morning, even if there are other things he wants todo that day).

To the PP who said bathtime had all kinds of toys? Does not work with my kid. Period. Those things work the first night I use them, but he hates baths as much as showers. These bathtime/shower time standoff a have been happening since he was 3. Which is why I try to avoid them.

[b]I got him into a nightly routing last year that worked well, but then in winter his skin dries out so nightly showers are not really ok.[/b] So then after we stopped doing it nightly, we went back in time to stand offs and screaming matches. I really and truly don't understand. [/quote]

Were you using lotion after every shower?  If not, go back to the nightly showers and have him use lotion.  [/quote]

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