my teenage daughter...

Even though we think an hour or more is too much, that doesn't seem to be the case with young teen girls now. My daughter is the same way. Not only while taking a shower either. She never goes into the bathroom for less then five minutes at a time or more. Drives me insane so I feel for you. You need to set limits though or your water bill is going to go through the roof! Good luck

if she has long straight hair, i may know what's keeping her in the bathroom that long. it's usually the hair that gets a lot of time to do when you want it soft, shiny and straight always. i used to have a very long (almost to my waistline) straight hair before which i wash and condition everyday during those days. it consumes a lot of time, shampoo and conditioner. :) so if it's posing a problem for you. ask her to shorten her hair.

I was like your daughter, when I was a teenager and at that time I really did feel that it was necessary. Nowadays I limit my time in the bathroom to 30 minutes because I have to kids making trouble, if they can. I have to say in your daughters defense though, that using conditioner, shampoo, hairtreatment, facial wash and shaving can take up some time. Does your daughter spend all of the time with the water running, or just in the bathroom. If she spends all her time with the water running, I think you should have a talk with her and try to cut it down to max. 30 minutes. However, if she just spends the time in the bathroom, there is not much to do. Maybe you can get her a little beauty table with a large mirror in her room, so that she can some of the time there, instead of taking over the bathroom.

My 10 year old daughter spends more than 30 minutes(with much reprimands to move faster from the family) to take a bath during school days and almost an hour or more during weekends. I can't imagine how long she's going to spend on the shower once she becomes an actual teenager. LOL..Anyway, we're working on this right now by teaching her to move faster.