Bathing with your kids

On occassion, my DS wants to get in the shower with DH. We usually try and distract him and get him interested in something else. The other morning though he was pretty adamant. So, my DH stripped him down and put him in there with him. It wasn't a big deal, but I have to admit I was a little weirded out by it. I wouldn't ever be able to shower or bathe with DD or DS. I was talking to my hairdresser about it (her kids are about the same age as mine) and she said she bathes with her DD all the time.

I am just wondering do you or DH/DP/SO bathe with your kids or do you think it is weird?

 

It's fine no big deal at all. In fact, I don't even understand what objection anyone could possible have to it. We had a thread in the Den the other day about nudity and children. Some parents thought it was wrong for an adult to be nude in front of their kids, and I was shocked. I've never heard of this attitude before, except for maybe in stories about the Puritans in the 1600s.

 

We bath/shower with our kids all the time. I don't make a big deal out of it... even when DD or DS pull at my nipples or grab my pubic hair I have a firm belief that they should not learn shame and embarrasement about their bodies--esp at this age. Of course, I will teach them that they're private, but I let them explore and touch and try to teach them the proper names and uses.

But at the same time, that's just us! I do get how someone can be wierded out by it!

 

I'm not comfortable with the idea, although I don't think there's anything wrong with it, I just personally would never bathe with/in front of my kids. I like having a little privacy! Also, wet kids are slippery and I'd probably drop them or knock them over if I was wet, too.

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with it, but it does make me uncomfortable. We've just started bringing them in the shower with us after swim lessons, they hate it. I think it's a personal choice.

 

Funny you should mention this. I'd never thought about it before. We have only a tub in our main bathroom. The only shower we have is a cement block, yucky shower in the basement. I use it daily, but I'd never take the kids down there. They always get baths. This weekend we were staying in a cabin that only had a shower. I thought about bathing them in the large kitchen sink, but it just seemed like too much work. So I took them in the shower with me. It was so easy! I wish I had the option more often. It did require DH's help though. He had to take one baby and dry her and dress her while I was washing the other. I couldn't have done it all myself. Long story short, I don't think it's that weird at this age. As they get older, I don't think I'd be as comfortable with it.

 

I don't bathe with my kids because shower is MY time Plus my boys are so wiggly, when they're wet they are all but impossible to deal with but I don't see anything wrong with it at all. I think the human body is nothing to be ashamed of so there isn't anything weird about a parent bathing with a toddler.
I guess theres a line to be drawn at a certain age and I wouldn't let my kids bathe with anyone else other than my husband or I but certainly now, I think its totally fine.

 

After forever of trying to figure out how to bathe them without them standing up, screaming, trying to get out, etc. (and in particular after they both fell and end up with a bloody lip), we started bathing them one at a time with DH. I see nothing wrong with it. They are just getting a bath, and it's safer than falling down. It works for us, and I'm not weirded out by it. I think by the time it starts getting weird, they will be better at being in the tub without risking death.

 

I think same sex is OK. I will bathe with my girls and often do with my oldest DD. I do find it odd if DD wanted to shower with DH. It wouldn't ever happen in my house. Not sure why but I find opposite sex bathing together uncomfortable. Good thing I don't have any sons!

 

All I have to say is wow! (jaw still open). I remember my mom, sister and I taking showers together. We must have been very young for us to all fit, but old enough for me to remember. All I do remember is the shower and hanging out with my mom, I don't have any memories of my mothers bits and pieces (not that it matters either)

 

I have showered with my girls and DH has as well. Recently though he's started wearing a bathing suit while showering with them... More for his comfort I think though. If you are comfortable with it, great. If not, thats fine too.

 

That's exactly what we do also. Usually it's Dh but sometimes I'm the one that gets in with them one at a time.

 

I see nothing wrong with it at this age. I probably took showers with DS til he was about 3.5.

 

I don't see anything wrong with it at this age. Personally I do not shower or bathe with the children because I consider that my time, so I usually have a shower/bath after they are in bed.

 

Ditto this!I took baths with my brother (1 1/2 year younger than me) and my sister (5 years older) and my mom! Just remember bubbles, soapsuds, laughs and fun! I say go for it if you want!

 

this is exactly how i feel about it as well - especially the bolded part. that being said, i usually don't shower with the girls just because, as other posters have mentioned, that's me time.

 

I have taken both my girls in the shower with me, at the same time, but I love being naked and woul have no problem if they banished clothes all together!

 

I still bath with my 4 yr old DD and will until one of us i uncomfortable. I don't think it will be an issue if I bath with either of the boys. I think sometimes it makes my life easier when I have DD shower with me. I don't do it all the time but there are days. I never thought anything of it until this was brought up in another thread.

 

we do shower with the kids once and awhile after we take them swimming - but it really does take two of us, one to make sure they stay sitting (as our shower floor is VERY slippery) and one to actually bath them. They LOVE it! We also get dressed in front of the kids when we get ready to go to work or go out. They are really curious and DS will often go and get my bra for me, and DD helps me pull up my pants! They think its a blast to get mommy dressed. I am not embarrassed around them in the least as IMHO they have no idea that a breast is any different from a finger, although in a few years I will probably feel differently.

 

I take my shower before they get up in the morning. I would not have an issue with bathing/showering with them but I'm not waking them up to take a bath

 

I say, to each its own. I have not done this yet but will definately give it a try after they get a little older.

 

I don't see anything weird about it. In fact our boys sometimes shower with DH.

 

Sometimes the only way I can get the boys to let me use soap is if I crawl in the bathtub with them! To them, bath time is more about playing. Up until they were able to sit in the tub by themselves, I took EVERY bath with them. I don't see anything wrong with it. They are getting clean. That's all that matters!

 

We do this sometimes mostly for convenience. If we're in a hurry and they're messy, a parent and the kids will hop in the shower, or we'll take a bath. They are far more interested in their toys and singing in the "rain" than our body parts. We won't do it forever, but at this age it's not a problem for any of us.

 

I'm with you on this. Yeah, I know it seems so silly and immature but I don't feel comfortable being naked in front of my kids.