Scrub up!

Hi Humbug, My son gets out of the bath dirty I am sure he does. I call him my little dirt magnet and as we have no shower it is usually a bath most days. I think when I was a kid it was bath night Wednesdays and Sundays (Wednesadys cos my grandparents visited and Sundays clean and hairwashed ready for school on Monday. Huggles. Ellie :D

We don't have a shower but we bath the children every day

My kids shower about three times a week or if they fancy more. My youngest is nearly 10 so they are older, smaller children I think a bath a night before bed helps to settle them.

I am scrubbed every day Humbug. Unfortunately I have to do it myself these days. But into the shower I go and scrub, scrub, scrub! It's tough being 12!

Ew! Once a week would be bad! I know that with my kids they even sweat in the winter with their hats on and other winter attire and I can't imagine little sweaty warm heads! pew! My kids were always every other night bathers. My son is 14 and started a once a day shower when he turned 10. My daughter is 10 and now does the same. Occasionally they will go an extra day if we've just been blobbing around for the weekend.

While my brother and sisters where growing up we were mostly bath takers, we rarely showered, the only one who mostly used the shower was my father. We mostly took a bath either every other day at night or like every three days at night. We rarely took showers in the morning. When I got into high school, I started taking showers more frequently, I guess it was the "in" thing at the time, I don't really know. Showers then started to migrate to my brother also, he started to take them more frequently when he started college around the same time I was in high school. At that point the both of us would take a shower every day in the morning. Considering I was playing football and I wrestled I also took a bath at night every night. Even to this day , I have grown more accustomed to showering compared to anything else. I shower every day in the morning still, and I maybe bathe at night every other night or so. Have a Merry Christmas, Luvandpower Life is short, live it to the fullest

‘little nooks and crannies’…what a cute way of putting this! I enjoy scrubbing my son more than he enjoys getting scrubbed. I can be quite energetic at it and with shampoo in his hair and dripping down his eyes, he’s in a pathetic condition. Every Sunday it is for me too but in between if there’s a holiday, I clean him up. He’s my doll to play with and India being a summer country, its best to keep clean all the time. BTW in the height of summer, he bathes twice even thrice a day but now that its winter, he bathes once daily.

I live in a hot country so it is normal to bathe at least twice a day. If I am going out in an evening after work then I would take my second shower for the day before going out and another one before going to bed. It was easier to bathe my children seversal times a day than to just wash them. They would be outside with their father and get all hot and dirty so we would just dump them into the bath and shower the dirt off. However, when we visited my grandmother during the summer holidays she only received water from a pump that had to be primed before water came out. No bathroom but a tin bath that she would fill with water every saturday night. come to think of it, it was really yucky, because my sisters bathed first and then I was plonked in - in the same water that they had used! We were very healthy children too. Blessings

I raised five children. loveing them all, some times to much. there evening meal was all ways on the table at five thirty. they got a little snack about seven. then seven thirty, was bath time. a little tv. and off to bed.with a hug, a kiss, and a God bless you. befor all meals, they could not come to the table, with out washen there hand's. that was a family rule.I have to agree with you, children sleep much more sound with a full tummy and a good clean body.and clean sheets. I knew this woman that I had cleaned her house one time.she was expecting a baby. she said. oh" I see you changed my sheet's. I said well they looked like they needed changing. she said, how often do you change your sheet's I told her once a week or more offten if needed. she laugh. and said oh I haven't changed mine in 5 or 6 months. all of a sudden, I felt things crawling on me. my GOD where do these people come from. no more changing other people's sheets for me.