A few months ago, I broke a promise to my son. He was terrified of taking a bath and wanted out, and was letting me know in the most inconvenient ways: shrieking, clamoring over the tub’s edge, and flailing around an already-slippery tub. But rather than acknowledging and working with his feelings or simply letting [...]
Category: bath time
Yesterday, SSBE reader hnMom from High Needs wrote in with a question: We are going through a phase right now where she is completely scared of the water. How did you get [your toddler] to take his bath? What did the trick? I’d be thankful for any ideas. When my toddler was close to two-years-old, [...]
I can’t believe there were days when LO was younger when he would have to nap three, four or five times in a day! With just one nap, our schedules are a lot less complicated. On the days when he’s home with us, his schedule is: 7am-wake up and breakfast 10am-snack 12pm-nap 1pm (or whenever [...]
We had a successful bath time tonight! It started off shaky but in the end, LO took a bath without a lot of crying. The biggest trick? Trickling water. But before that, the first thing we did was decide that only one of us would bathe him and not both of us. During the past [...]
Still unsuccessful. This time it was me who got in the tub with LO, and he still ended up crying his eyes out and trembling. I went on the mommy boards to see what other moms have done, and thankfully I am not the only one who has gone through this. Most of the moms [...]
With LO crying hysterically at bath time, we’re trying new techniques to ease his fears and keep him clean. Last night, we removed his little bath tub and filled up the regular tub with a small amount of water. My husband carried LO into the bath with him, but LO was still crying a lot. [...]
For the longest time, LO loved taking baths, or at the worst, tolerated it, especially when water would get in his eyes. These past few days though, he’s gradually become so frightened of taking a bath. It started off innocuously: first he would just whimper whenever he would get water in his eyes. Then he [...]
