Any creative solutions to getting DD (16 months) out of the bath without a meltdown? Lately she has been LOVING her bath and having a big meltdown when I take her out. She gets a bath every night and I've recently started putting her in the bath earlier so that she can have more time in there (although this is not possible every night).
Any good suggesting other than prying a screaming toddler out of the bath??!
Re: Not wanting to get out of the bath...
Another thing DD does is take a bath toy with her when she gets out. It is kind of a fun game deciding which toy gets to go. Sometimes it is just one and other times she has two fists full. For some reason she gets excited to take them with her.
We have plenty of other tantrums during the day - so I am happy they haven't made it to bath time just yet.
This is what I do as well.
Same here.
I say, "Do you want to read or do you want to go to bed?"
The answer is always read.
Also, I DO let her play pretty much as long as she wants. She doesn't have to get up in the morning, so it isn't a big deal to me if she plays in there all night.
Us too!
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We also drain the tub while he's still in there. He looooves watching the water go down the drain and waving to it. When it's all done, he helps me put up his bath toys and then we have a whole routine of saying "Bye-Bye Bathtub. See you tomorrow." We wave bye-bye to the bathtub and then use his special hooded toddler towels and look in the mirror to point out the animal he looks like. If I were to break said routine = meltdown.
Haha, us too! She doesn't like it when she is cold and wet and sitting in an empty tub
Same!
This is what I do. We say "Bye Bye Water" and unplug the drain.