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Old 05-11-2008   #154 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dolfette View Post
you don't. that was merely in response to someone's post about leaving a 4y/o to wash totally unsupervised.
Thanks for proving my point that a parent doesn't HAVE to be in the tub with their child to wash their hair or wash the rest of them. Not once did my mother or father get in the tub with me (yet I didn't turn out to be ashamed of my body). One of them always just kneeled outside the tub and washed me and, later when I was a toddler, sat on edge of the toilet and supervised. At a certain point (around five) I didn't need supervision and they left me in peace to wash myself (after filling the tub to make sure I didn't burn myself with the hot water). When I had to wash my hair, it was also done while one of them was outside the tub. And now that it's been shown that a parent doesn't have to be in the tub with their child to wash them, someone may want to explain why they WOULD get in the tub with them as if getting naked with their child is the only way they know how to bond with said child. I've bathed kids too and never got in the tub with them. Maybe, unlike some guys, I never want to risk getting accidentally kicked in the balls during the splashing that kids love to do.