Loves bathes, but HATES getting hair washed

Re: Loves bathes, but HATES getting hair washed

• kiwi0427

  October 2008

  dd hated getting her hair rinsed and we tried not to get water in her face too. We bought her a bath visor to wear and that helped. They sell them at BRU. You could try that. 

  Hopefully she gets over this phase soon. DD is fine now (without the visor)...her phase lasted maybe 3 months. Good luck!

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• Halo79RN member

  October 2008

  my dd is the same way now (she wasn't before, I could just ask her to look at the sky and she'd look up and I could rinse).  I got some frog that suction to the bottom of the tub , supposed to provide slip proof tub... anyhoo... I put a couple on the wall and ask her where they are. Still, that only works 1/3 of the time. She still fusses... so we just hurry through it.

   

  good luck!  I hope both girls outgrow this quickly!  
  

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• dkhahn78

  October 2008

  DD is the same way!  i usually just try and do it as fast as I can.  That means getting water down her face but, oh well.

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• Scuba_Girl

  October 2008

  My 2 year old has been this way for at least a year.  It's finally starting to get a little better now that she understands a lot of what we're saying.  We went to BRU and bought one of those pitchers with the soft side that conforms to the forehead.  She still resists it, but I just calmly tell her that "it's only water" and it doesn't hurt, and I start by just pouring it down the back of her hair.  Then the next time I go a little more toward the top but stay near the crown.  Then I do it from the forehead.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  What also seems to help is after I've rinsed it once, I ask her if she wants to do it, and surprisingly enough, she always wants to!  she'll pour it right on her face and everything!  Then she'll pour it on her shoulders.  After I let her play with it for a while, she usually calms down enough for me to get another quick rinse in.

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• ChristineNYC

  October 2008

  DD hates it too... can't wait to get in the bath - wants me dead when i have to rinse.   

   ... but- asking her if she wants to do it is a GREAT idea, and i'm embarrassed i didn't think of it myself LOL!

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• mommiella

  October 2008

  I have one of those pitchers with the soft side, too, and that does help. I also give my dd a dry washcloth to hold over her eyes while I rinse her hair. My other trick is to do her hair first, immediately after she gets in the tub. I always tell her that we get clean first, then play. She can't get her toys down until she's all washed. Works for me!

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• julygal

  October 2008

  I know this isn't the best short term solution, especially since you live up north & it is starting to get cold, but my DD quit resisting hair washing after swimming lessons.  Ever since we did swim lessons, which down here in FL were "survival lessons" so she actually can swim, she doesn't mind laying on her back while I rinse.  i sing the alphabet, which is what we do when she floats on her back in the pool, and she knows when I hit z she is allowed to sit up.  It gives me plenty of time to rinse, especially since I can sing the song slower if I need to.
  

  

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• Mrs.Pepin member

  October 2008

  I love the idea, maybe I should look into lessons at the YMCA.  She would absolutely love it and I could kill two birds with one stone

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