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Is it normal to give a child under the age of 6 a bath together boy & girl?
Need advice from serious people only please. I guess you might say the I am a little "old fashioned"
I was an only child growing up in the 60's yet I had boy cousins. My son now has a son of his own
& he believes the it is correct to be giving his son a bath with another child.
This other child is a girl. I am very much against. I try very hard to make some rules in my home
but it seems like my son has a difficult problem with abiding by them. Any help with this would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
11 Answers
- SamuraiXLv 58 years agoFavorite Answer
totally normal. kids that age don't know shame or anything like that. it's just fun to have a playmate in the tub...
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Yes, if you find yourself equipped to peer him i'd tell him what happened. Any little one would wish to know that his birth mother never wanted to provide him up and has searched and fought to be in his existence. I believe most of the folks here the adopted mother does no longer deserve any response from you. She is a horrible girl to do what she did she is a liar, manipulator, and down proper a witch. However don't tell this to your son focal point on how happy you might be to be in his life. I hope you've got reduce all ties to your mom, she did something unspeakable! If i have been you i'd by no means let her close any more of my children. I'm so sorry you needed to go via that, write him letters and hold up trying to see him. If the adopted mom blocks you she will be able to simplest do it unless hes 18 then he's an grownup and can prefer to peer you or now not.
- 8 years ago
It's not a big deal for young children to bathe together, regardless of gender. I used to bathe with my brother all the time as we're only 18 months apart. My kids are now 9 (girl), 8 (girl), and 5 (boy), but when they were younger, they would bathe together. Even now, my younger two will occasionally hop in the bath or shower together so that they can play with toys in the water. It's really not a big deal.
- KelseyLv 48 years ago
I think it is a bit weird. If they are brother and sister I think it is okay, but once they start to notice private areas I think it should stop. I wouldn't do it after age 3. I have a daughter and will be having a son soon. I don't think it would be a big deal to give them baths together once in a while to save time, but at the same time I don't think it is too much of an inconvenience to take one child out and then put the next one in. Again I do not think this is really a big deal, but I would not personally do it.
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- Anonymous8 years ago
Yep quite normal as kids don't worry who the other one is they share a bath with. Maybe around 8 they notice more about each others bodies. From 9 or 10 they should be starting to bathe alone.
Source(s): I was an only child in the 50s but did bathe with cousins of both genders before I was 9. Our parents never seen it as wrong and actually encouraged it as it saved water. - Anonymous8 years ago
If you ask me, it really isn't a problem. Why keep them apart just because they're of different genders? Your take on it is probably more common, but I don't see any harm in letting children bathe together. You'd actually be setting the wrong example by arbitrarily discriminating, if you didn't let them.
- Tri-HarderLv 78 years ago
Yes it's normal. I don't think that your way of thinking can be classified as "old fashioned" though, when my parents were raised in the fifties and sixties and don't feel the way you do.
I assume your son is living with you, though, since you said you try to make rules in your house? If he is, you do still have the right to make that rule and expect him to abide by it, it's your house, illogical as the rule may be.
- 8 years ago
Yes it is fine. They are too young to worry. I had a son and daughter take baths together when they were young. They are grown into wonderful adults now.
Source(s): Personal experience - A Red LooLv 68 years ago
Unless you draw attention to the different genders, the kids aren't going to care.
Parents with multiple kids find it easier to give their kids a bath at the same time, versus several different ones.
I see no problem with it.
- Anonymous8 years ago
You never said how old the kiddis are? My brother and sister used to get in together untill she was 6 he was 3