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chaos after bathtime
Every night my girls run aroundl like mad women after bathtime. We do bath right before dinner. I'm about to pull my hair out. You would think bath would calm them down....nope, they're crazy! I'm surprised they don't end up bruised with the amount of times they tackle each other.
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Re: chaos after bathtime
Yep, Scott does this too! We do dinner, downtime, bath, bed. Scott literally runs around the house naked and will say "I'm a naked boy!" and laugh. He almost always ends up running into something, tripping, or otherwise injuring himself.
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Yeah, I think baths are invigorating
We do dinner, book time, bath, drawing, bed.
We let Ben jump on the bed to wear himself out. Maybe I shouldn't admit that I let him jump on the bed?
Anyway, we let him jump and then we go play with markers in his room because it is a quiet task that requires some concentration. I just let him draw and eventually he will tell me he is sleepy and we go get in bed.
We do bath time after dinner, after an hour or so of quiet play. After bath, we put on PJ's, brush teeth, dry hair, then go potty. Then DH or I (we alternate nights) will rock her for a bit and talk. She gets to pick the topic (usually the beach, DH's company's party from back in May, or a wedding we went to in April...LOL), then we tell her we'll rock for two more minutes, then warn her when she has one minute. They say "ok, time for bed." We let her have two books of her choosing in bed. Then we tuck her in and say goodnight, and leave the room (despite any pleas for a drink of water, more rocking, gong to the potty again, or any other stalling techniques!). Sticking to this has really helped calm down our evening routine.
After bath, she definitely is wound up. Often time she'll run and jump in her bed and "hide" when we tell her time's to go potty, or otherwise play around. If she does that, then we'll say "ok, good night." and close her door. She'll immediately jump up and say "no! I need to go potty" and then cooperate. If she didn't for some reason, I'd totally leave her in her room for the night to work it out on her own. But we've never had to do that. But that's basically our way of saying we're not going to tolerate her bouncing off the wall and not listening or sticking to our routine. It seems to work well for us.
Sounds like chaos after bathtime isn't abnormal. We have a very set bedtime routine that works (just timing wise, we have to do bath before dinner which is fine with us and not an issue). I was just surprised that the bath didn't leave them relaxed. (the reference to the fact we do it before dinner was just a side note).