At what age should baths with a parent stop? UPDATE in Post 368 (1 Viewer)

[(HULK)]

FYI, we coslept until 6 months with both.

But we had this thing called a cosleeper that attached to the side of the bed that the baby goes in. So we didn't suffocate them.

 

[matuski]

Stopped taking baths at like2-3, still take showers with them at 5/7 because they suck at washing their hair.

Borderline sexual abuse IMO. Kids probably end up with weird fetishes in adulthood and hopefully that's the worst of it.

Like I said, seems a lot of you have some serious personal hangups regarding this.

There is nothing weird about it, and at taking it to the sexual abuse line.

In order for it to be weird, you have to make it weird. I'm washing my kid's hair, what is it you are feeling guilty about doing with a kid in the shower?

 

[tikigods]

Are they allowed in the bathroom while Manscaping?

 

[BigJohn]

Kids are 7(f), 5(m) and 3(f). Never took baths with them. I don't take baths, period. If we were in a hurry, one of us would take them into the shower with us. But, they were little enough to hold, so <18 months. Would feel weird about it at this point. Not saying it's completely wrong, but having my wife point and laugh at my junk is abuse enough.

My question is about siblings bathing together. I don't let the boy bathe with either girl at this point. I'm even starting to wonder if having the girls together is stretching it...

 

[Patriotsfatboy1]

Taking a bath or a shower with your kids is pretty weird if you ask me. I have 2 boys and I never showered/bathed with them and neither has the wife. They have seen me naked, but it is not something that I encourage and I try to avoid it. I am not ashamed of being naked, but there are social mores that kids need to learn. Running around naked with other people around is not something that they should be looking to do. Unless they join a nudist colony, I guess.

As far as co-sleeping, it is a bad idea. Our kids come into our bed in the morning to give a hug and then they go off and play. We have had friends who have slept with their kids and they had a hard time getting alone time and it was hard getting the kids out of their bed. It must be great on your relationship if you have to push little Billy over so that you can grope your wife.

There is plenty of time for bonding with your kids throughout their lives. Bath time and sleeping are not the best times.

 

[BassNBrew]

My kids see my wife's #### everyday. She breast feeds the little one and will until he is one. They see my wang after I shower or if I am g getting dressed. Why are you dudes so weird about your penises and your kids?

There is zero reason your 2.5 year old should be seeing your junk with any frequency.

I really don't get this. I see him naked everyday. Him.seeing me naked is nothing I am ashamed of. What's the deal with being afraid of nakedness?

I can probably get beyond the naked stuff, but sell me on the benefits of sitting in water contaminated with urine and fecal matter.

 

[TheWalkmen]

My son is 13 months, I've gotten in the tub with him a handful of times. I've mainly done it when my wife is tired and I don't feel like leaning over the tub to grab him when he tries standing up, grabbing things, etc. It's many times easier to wash him and manage him while in the tub. No big deal whatsoever. I've held him in the shower while my wife washes him several times as well. I can't imagine bathing with him after age 2-3.

No co-sleeping.

 

[tikigods]

Taking a bath or a shower with your kids is pretty weird if you ask me. I have 2 boys and I never showered/bathed with them and neither has the wife. They have seen me naked, but it is not something that I encourage and I try to avoid it. I am not ashamed of being naked, but there are social mores that kids need to learn. Running around naked with other people around is not something that they should be looking to do. Unless they join a nudist colony, I guess.

As far as co-sleeping, it is a bad idea. Our kids come into our bed in the morning to give a hug and then they go off and play. We have had friends who have slept with their kids and they had a hard time getting alone time and it was hard getting the kids out of their bed. It must be great on your relationship if you have to push little Billy over so that you can grope your wife.

There is plenty of time for bonding with your kids throughout their lives. Bath time and sleeping are not the best times.

Wait, you don't walk around the house with your wang hanging out in front of your kids?

I walk around your house with my wang out, rummage through your fridge, and watch your 60" TV when you leave for Patriot games.

 

[Patriotsfatboy1]

Taking a bath or a shower with your kids is pretty weird if you ask me. I have 2 boys and I never showered/bathed with them and neither has the wife. They have seen me naked, but it is not something that I encourage and I try to avoid it. I am not ashamed of being naked, but there are social mores that kids need to learn. Running around naked with other people around is not something that they should be looking to do. Unless they join a nudist colony, I guess.

As far as co-sleeping, it is a bad idea. Our kids come into our bed in the morning to give a hug and then they go off and play. We have had friends who have slept with their kids and they had a hard time getting alone time and it was hard getting the kids out of their bed. It must be great on your relationship if you have to push little Billy over so that you can grope your wife.

There is plenty of time for bonding with your kids throughout their lives. Bath time and sleeping are not the best times.

Wait, you don't walk around the house with your wang hanging out in front of your kids?

I walk around your house with my wang out, rummage through your fridge, and watch your 60" TV when you leave for Patriot games.

People could be standing right in front of you and not even notice that little inny that you pretend is a pen!s.

 

[tikigods]

Taking a bath or a shower with your kids is pretty weird if you ask me. I have 2 boys and I never showered/bathed with them and neither has the wife. They have seen me naked, but it is not something that I encourage and I try to avoid it. I am not ashamed of being naked, but there are social mores that kids need to learn. Running around naked with other people around is not something that they should be looking to do. Unless they join a nudist colony, I guess.

As far as co-sleeping, it is a bad idea. Our kids come into our bed in the morning to give a hug and then they go off and play. We have had friends who have slept with their kids and they had a hard time getting alone time and it was hard getting the kids out of their bed. It must be great on your relationship if you have to push little Billy over so that you can grope your wife.

There is plenty of time for bonding with your kids throughout their lives. Bath time and sleeping are not the best times.

Wait, you don't walk around the house with your wang hanging out in front of your kids?

I walk around your house with my wang out, rummage through your fridge, and watch your 60" TV when you leave for Patriot games.

People could be standing right in front of you and not even notice that little inny that you pretend is a pen!s.

Good point. This explains why your wife calls me Benjamin Button.

 

[arrow1]

The thought of taking a bath with my kids has never even crossed my mind.

This

 

[jon_mx]

honestly thought this would be like 75% plus that did this. Especially taking significant other in consideration.

it's a pretty good bonding experience and a fun time. maybe give it a try?

Give my best regards to your Uncle-Dad.

 

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Creepy. As. ####.

 

[James Daulton]

And how could anyone think sleeping with an infant is a good idea? I know that my wife rolls and tosses so much that she hurts me on occasion. Now throw my fat ### and an infant into the equation, and I can see where the opportunity for disaster is clear. Plus factor in that neither you nor your wife could possibly sleep as well with a 15 pound infant in the rack with you, and I can't imagine what good people think can come of it.

Of course, I thought we raised my 18 and 14 year old about as perfectly as possible. And there are days now that I can't even stand to look at them, so maybe I don't have all the answers...

 

[Soulfly3]

I didn't even know grown men took baths.

Super red flag

 

[NutterButter]

####### ######ed. if you make it taboo, the child will seek it out.

Your kids are going to seek out naked middle aged men? I think you have bigger problems.

 

[Insein]

My kids see my wife's fits everyday. She breast feeds the little one and will until he is one. They see my wang after I shower or if I am g getting dressed. Why are you dudes so weird about your penises and your kids?

i just dont see the point of climbing in the bathtub with them. Thats all. I never said you were being inappropriate especially since youre kids are so young. Everything you can do inside the tub you can also do outside the tub.

Exactly. Walking in the room if mommy or daddy are changing is one thing. Deliberately setting out to get naked in the tub with your kids when you don't have to is very odd. I don't see the tangible benefits of this. If anything it makes them even more clingy and less self reliant. Probably will be the type of parent that goes to a job interview with them at 25.

 

[Judge Smails]

FBG kids have iPhones at 7. iPhones have cameras. Do you really want a picture of your junk going around Thomas Edison elementary?

 

[the moops]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

 

[James Daulton]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

 

[VA703]

 

[Eminence]

Maybe if we were wearing swim trunks...

 

[Jewell]

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

How else do you play 'Find the Sea Serpent' with your kids?

 

[shadyridr]

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

How else do you play 'Find the Sea Serpent' with your kids?

Jeezus

 

[ClownCausedChaos2]

And G.I. Joe got stuck...And G.I. Joe got stuck...

 

[NutterButter]

FBG kids have iPhones at 7. iPhones have cameras. Do you really want a picture of your junk going around Thomas Edison elementary?

That sounds like a public school. FGBs don't send their kids to public school.

 

[BassNBrew]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Still waiting for your to explain why you like bathing in urine and fecal matter instead of sitting on the outside of the tub.

 

[FUBAR]

And G.I. Joe got stuck...And G.I. Joe got stuck...

Mommy, does Barbie come with Ken?

No darling, she comes with G.I. Joe. She fakes it with Ken.

 

[FUBAR]

My kids see my wife's fits everyday. She breast feeds the little one and will until he is one. They see my wang after I shower or if I am g getting dressed. Why are you dudes so weird about your penises and your kids?

i just dont see the point of climbing in the bathtub with them. Thats all. I never said you were being inappropriate especially since youre kids are so young. Everything you can do inside the tub you can also do outside the tub.

Exactly. Walking in the room if mommy or daddy are changing is one thing. Deliberately setting out to get naked in the tub with your kids when you don't have to is very odd. I don't see the tangible benefits of this. If anything it makes them even more clingy and less self reliant. Probably will be the type of parent that goes to a job interview with them at 25.

At what age should Job Interviews with a parent stop?

 

[NutterButter]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

 

[gianmarco]

My notebook is a little lacking, but who was it that had their wife and kids literally go to sleep on top of him?

 

[Insein]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

I'm hardly a person that responds to media hysteria but it seems pretty simple that you don't control your body while you sleep. So if you at 180- 220 lbs rolls over on a 10-20 lb kid, that might increase their chances of dying. Something you might care about.

 

[Soulfly3]

I jerk my 8 month old puppy off, as to calm it. he's quite hyper.

at what age should I stop this?

 

[the moops]

My notebook is a little lacking, but who was it that had their wife and kids literally go to sleep on top of him?

let's focus on whoever this guy is instead

 

[NutterButter]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

I'm hardly a person that responds to media hysteria but it seems pretty simple that you don't control your body while you sleep. So if you at 180- 220 lbs rolls over on a 10-20 lb kid, that might increase their chances of dying. Something you might care about.

I said we didn't do this when the kids were infants.

 

[boots11234]

My FIL potentially ####s on my lawn and questions my manhood... I love to smell women as they walk by me... I love handjobs more than anything... But ####### hell, the FFA has some really ####ed up people

Don't sell yourself short, you're as witless as anybody on the board.

you seem like the type of guy who combs his pubes.

 

[Steve Tasker]

My notebook is a little lacking, but who was it that had their wife and kids literally go to sleep on top of him?

Notebook says pittstownkiller.

 

[gianmarco]

My notebook is a little lacking, but who was it that had their wife and kids literally go to sleep on top of him?

Notebook says pittstownkiller.

Yep, I just found it:

Really?

I spent the first years of our relationship sleeping on top of my girlfriend/wife; I never could understand how she could do this. When I would snore she would tickle my chest lightly till I stopped; now I just sleep on my stomach which put an end to it. All the tickling has made me an incredibly light sleeper, though, and I wake up to any sound I make as I sleep. For me penance, of sleeping on top of my wife for 20 years, I now have two children that sleep on top of me (one on my back, baby on my head)…I don't know if I would change it.

 

[James Daulton]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

Different strokes I guess. I couldn't wait to put the kids to bed so my wife and I could have alone time (not just for the sexors either). Being honest, you actually prefer this arrangement to sleeping in the room with just your wife? Assume the kids are fine in their own room.

 

[avoiding injuries]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

Different strokes I guess. I couldn't wait to put the kids to bed so my wife and I could have alone time (not just for the sexors either). Being honest, you actually prefer this arrangement to sleeping in the room with just your wife? Assume the kids are fine in their own room.

My wife has been sleeping in the guest room the past couple of nights and it's been niiiiiiiiiiiiice to have the bed to myself.

 

[James Daulton]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

Different strokes I guess. I couldn't wait to put the kids to bed so my wife and I could have alone time (not just for the sexors either). Being honest, you actually prefer this arrangement to sleeping in the room with just your wife? Assume the kids are fine in their own room.

My wife has been sleeping in the guest room the past couple of nights and it's been niiiiiiiiiiiiice to have the bed to myself.

Now imagine having The Waltons in there with you.

 

[bleachercreacher]

I haven't taken a bath in years. Even if I wanted to, I'm 6'8" and it wouldn't work. I work 7 on and 7 off, so when I'm on my off rotation, it's just me and him at home. I don't have anywhere else to put him if I take a shower, so he takes one with me. It's not weird at all. Usually he plays in the back of the tub.

 

[shadyridr]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

OOF

 

[bushdocda]

My notebook is a little lacking, but who was it that had their wife and kids literally go to sleep on top of him?

Notebook says pittstownkiller.

Yep, I just found it:

Really?

I spent the first years of our relationship sleeping on top of my girlfriend/wife; I never could understand how she could do this. When I would snore she would tickle my chest lightly till I stopped; now I just sleep on my stomach which put an end to it. All the tickling has made me an incredibly light sleeper, though, and I wake up to any sound I make as I sleep. For me penance, of sleeping on top of my wife for 20 years, I now have two children that sleep on top of me (one on my back, baby on my head)I don't know if I would change it.

Wow to the original post and wow to the notebook.

 

[Soulfly3]

a 3yr old watching me scrub the hell out of my taint in the shower?

I just can't see myself doing it.

 

[Sweet J]

Stopped taking baths at like2-3, still take showers with them at 5/7 because they suck at washing their hair.

Dude that's weird

Not really .

It's not weird to shower with your 7 year old????

I don't think so.

 

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Damn... people are strange.

 

[Wildcat]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

I'm sure it is "much easier". I would be much easier if I let my child eat candy for dinner too, or not bathe him regularly, or let him write on the walls with crayons, etc. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

To each his own I guess. Who am I, or anyone else, to question how you raise you children? I probably do things in raising my children that may seem weird to some. I can't think of any though.

 

[NutterButter]

Sure are some crazy assumptions in here.

My wife probably takes a bath with the kids once a week. I probably once a month.

I know that the co sleeping thing is controversial here in the states. I can understand that and can see the concerns that some may have. Wasn't something we planned on ahead of time. Just turned out to something that works for us.

But this backlash about bathing with a small child and how they are going to start comparing their boyfriends penis to their dad's or how they after somehow less self reliant (not sure I know of any infant or young toddler that can bathe themselves) is completely shocking to me.

Some of my friends take baths with their kids. Some don't. Don't think either is right or wrong. I do find it funny that non parents think one way or the other. If there is one thing I have learned in my first 2.5 years of parenting it's that each kids is diffweren't and each family dynamic is different and what works for some doesn't work for others

Not trying to be dickish.

What about cosleeping "works" for you? And you feel this benefit outweighs the potential (no matter how small) of seriously harming your child?

What are the benefits of climbing into the tub with your kid?

We didn't cosleep when the kids were still infants, but we do now. There's 2 adults, a 4 year old, a 7 year old and 2 dogs (maybe more depending on if we're fostering any dogs at the time) in a side by side queen and full mattress. Its always been so much easier just putting the kids too bed that way that we just stuck with it. My wife and I would hardly have sex if we had the room all to ourselves anyways so it doesn't affect that aspect of our marriage. I have no idea when it will end or how it affects my kids long term and I really don't care.

I'm sure it is "much easier". I would be much easier if I let my child eat candy for dinner too, or not bathe him regularly, or let him write on the walls with crayons, etc. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

To each his own I guess. Who am I, or anyone else, to question how you raise you children? I probably do things in raising my children that may seem weird to some. I can't think of any though.

What's so wrong about it? Eating candy for dinner is obvious. Not seeing what's so obviously wrong about letting a 7 and 4 year sleep with us.

 

[RUSF18]

All you guys showering with your not so young kids...did your parents do the same with you?