Oh boy, my daughter did not like having a shower...one little bit!
By gemini_rose
@gemini_rose (16264)
June 1, 2008 3:05pm CST
On holiday we did not have a bath in our caravan, we had a shower. My daughter has never had a shower before, she is 2 years old and is only used to having a bath. I had washed her the first day we were there but on the second day of our holiday she was so dirty that she needed a proper wash.
As mentioned in a previous discussion I had a bit of a bad tummy and so while my hubby and my three boys went down the the clubhouse to play in the arcade, I stayed at the caravan to be close to my new best friend the toilet, and decided to give my daughter a shower.
I got everything ready and she was fine, showed her what I was going to do, she was fine. I put her in and then she screamed and screamed and scratched and fought me every step of the way, I did not even put the shower on her I took it off and just slightly wet her. I quickly got her washed and got her out as fast as I could!
As I was drying her there was a knock at the door, it was a woman from another caravan. She had heard my daughter screaming and was concerned that something had happened!
"Oh no she is fine" I told her "I was just showering her!" I am pretty sure she did not believe me!
Have you ever done something with your child thinking it would be fun or OK only to have them scream the house down?
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10 responses
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
1 Jun 08
When my twins were about 2 or 3 we brought them to the YMCA every week for swimming. Now I personally don't do well with chlorine. If I don't shower and wash with soap immediatly after, I will break out in a nasty rash. Being that the children were so little, I wouldn't take that chance with them. So as we got out of the pool I would bring them in to shower, and like you, not even put the water directly on them. We'd get in together, with the water mostly on me, and I'd make sure she got rinsed and washed well, but yes, she screamed the whole time.
Now the twins are 5, and just love showers!!! They ask for them instead of baths!
But, a tip for next time...
What I often do in the summer months is hook up the sprinkler outside, and let them run through it for a half an hour or so before we come in for the night. Because they do get a lot dirtier in the summer, but with 5 children, I have no desire to bathe them daily.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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1 Jun 08
You have 5 do you? I have 4, I will try the sprinkler though!
Yet she loves being in the bath, and swimming in the pool when we had it up and she has no fear of water getting in her face or anything.
@katsmeow1213 (28717)
• United States
1 Jun 08
Yes my little 2 year old loves baths and water himself, but he wouldn't like the shower. He doesn't always like the sprinkler unless he's had a chance to warm up to it by himself. He won't allow his siblings to force him up to it. He'll slowly work on going through it, then he's fine.
@sanzhiyan (68)
• China
2 Jun 08
from your statement
you are so considerate i mean you do not put the running water directly on them
and you said your children sometimes they would screaming
i think now you think of it you'll think it is very interesting ,'cause that's why they called kids
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
8 Jun 08
well when my son went to see santa claus for the first time in the mall he screamed like a banshee, he wouldn't sit on his knee and I couldn't get a proper picture of him.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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10 Jun 08
A lot of kids are frightened of him, I am not surprised though he is a bit scary when you think about it!
@moneyandgc (3428)
• United States
2 Jun 08
My two year old loves to stand on the outside of the tub while I am showering; pulling the curtain back and waving her arm in the water. She gets soaked and so does the floor.
We tried putting her in the shower with me once and she freaked! She hated every second of it. She still wants to play in the water from the outside when I am in there though!
@gemini_rose (16264)
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2 Jun 08
My daughter loves water, you should see her in a bath she goes under the water and everything. She is even OK when having her hair washed!
@MateiMonica (199)
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3 Jun 08
Oh....in time the bath became a habit to gain health, to add different herbs, to know the ways to make you happy.
@tessah (6617)
• United States
1 Jun 08
showers can be scary.. i remember my little brother freaking out and pitching a fit with his first one when he was about 3 or so. with my own kids.. from day one.. in additio to their regular baths, sometimes theyd just need a quickie rinse off, id take them into the shower with me.. hold them close and safe.. and shower them. havent ever had a problem with it with either of them when they were old enough to start showering themselves independently. and no.. cant say ive ever had anything that was meant to be fun, have that reaction from them. did with my nephew tho.. brought him into a pool with me and he near bouts clawed my neck clear off.. after about 20 minutes of him screaming and flipping out, and me continually talking quiet and calm to him.. he finally realized i wasnt going to just let go of him and that he could trust me,and he relaxed. by the time we were ready to get out, i was able to splash him around and play like normal and he didnt want to get out lol
@gemini_rose (16264)
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1 Jun 08
With my boys it was having their hair washed in the bath, no matter which way I did it and how gentle I was they would scream blue murder!
She was fine when her Dad showered her the next time, she would not come out of it!
@mummymo (23706)
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1 Jun 08
My daughter was the same gemini honey - she would not even let me wash her hair with the shower til after I got her pink highlights in her hair when she was 3 - and only then because I kept telling her that she couldn't have the highlights in her hair unless she let them wash it with a shower head - from that day on we could at least wash her hair with the shower whilst she leaned over the bath! I had a new shower installed about Christmas time and now she will happily go for a shower and wash/condition her hair on her own but she is 6 now! Blackmail and bribery may be corruption but it is a wonderful thing! xxx
@sanzhiyan (68)
• China
2 Jun 08
first i'd like to say this situation is very common ,yet i don't have a child ,but i have a sister when she was young she also hate shower .and sometimes when my parents were busy i have to do that for them .at that time i was so afraid of that ,so once in a while i'd like to do other things to excape
now my younger sister is grow up,sometime i'll use this to blackmail her .
what a great thing to be a elder brother.
@jensgeukens (373)
• Belgium
2 Jun 08
Although I do not have children, I think you should make a game of the showering process. She's just scared of being introduced to something new she had never seen before. So if you introduce this "new thing" to her as being a "fun thing" she should be more tend to accept it. For example: tell her you want to dance in the rain with here.
I don't know if this helps..but you always can try i guess.
