Bath strike...help!!!

jamiekendall

Until one month ago, my daughter was fine with baths (never liked getting her hair washed, but played with bubbles and had fun with bath toys otherwise).

Suddenly, mayhem and bloodshed when I mention baths. I want bath time to be fun, and yet nothing I have tried works. Ironically, Shelley LOVES playing in water (she even has a little doll bathtub she fills with water and she puts her squirty animals in there and gives THEM baths). So I do not know what to do...

HELP, PLEASE!!!

TriciaandSean

Just a few ideas, not sure if any will work.

New bath toys, the crayola color tabs that make the bath water pretty colors, let her blow bubbles in the bath tub with the bubble wand or you can blow bubbles for her, glow sticks in the bath tub with

jamiekendall

TriciaandSean:

Just a few ideas, not sure if any will work.

New bath toys, the crayola color tabs that make the bath wat

Aeeg520

This happened to dd around age 2 and we switched to showers which was a big success! I would let her stand I. There alone and I would wait at the end just outside the curtain and she would come to me so I could do shampoo/soap etc... The independence o

jamiekendall

Aeeg520:

This happened to dd around age 2 and we switched to showers which was a big success! I would let her stand I. There

orangecurls

Have you tried bath crayons?

pdxjenn

We just finished an almost 2 month bath strike. We either did showers with one of us or we would get into the bath with him. Then one day I was able to get him in there himself and it was as if it never happened. Time was the solution for us.

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pitterpatter129

We just went through this!  When I searched the interweb about it, turns out it's really common.  My kid conceeded to a bath seat he had at like 6 months old.  LOL  He would still jump out right after he was clean though.  Even

Cherryblossoms07

We are going through this now.  DD loves the water and has always loved bath time so I don't know why it started.  I don't push her to take a bath every day with her brother.  If she says no then I just put DS in the bath and she usually wa

KnitForte

My baby girl started doing this too and so we went back to putting her in the baby bath tub. She just barely fits, but she doesn't cry when it's bath time now. I'll go back to the regular tub in a couple of months. 

logoz80

new toys always help with a bath strike on this end

RachieTK

DS has refused to take baths when he learned to stand. He showers with one of us now, which is so much easier than the fight.