Is bathing with ya kids abnormal?

as i always do, i fully agree with Jumbo and Spoiled Princess.

I bathed with both of my sons until they were older. I don't think it has harmed them any. We still share the bathroom from time to time (don't bath together anymore tho)

Dude every kid needs that bond with their dad and mum and the ability to teach your kids that your body is nothing to be ashamed of is a great feat one which many many parents have failed at up untill now (mine especialy) I say embrasse your own parenting style, the very fact you are giving it this much thought proves you are a great dad and have the right instincts. But I would suggest drawing the line b4 they start school.

I had no illusions. I never bathed with my mom but nor did she hide nudity from me. I knew she had boobs and didn't have penis early on and, as a result, I always knew women were different down below. I never bathed with her but would saunter into the bathroom to ask her questions while she was in the tub. I didn't think anything of it because I didn't know TO think anything of it.

I've read all 49 posts and I'm confused about some reactions. Being nude is not a sexual issue for a child. I think it's good for a child to see it's parents nude. I remember the showers that my father took with me. Seeing him, made that I knew how I would look like when I grew older. I have even seen my father semi hard when he was soaping up. Fot me it was not sexual. He told me that a penis can grow hard and he showed me how to clean the foreskin. Again it was not sexual because I didn't know that you could use your penis for more than peeing. My mother showered with me and my sisters too, as my father did. We are all very easy with nudity.
As soon as it becomes sexual you have to stop. But if a parent has sexual feelings with his children there is something wrong.
I have brought up my children the same way as I was brought up. I am used to sleep naked. At the age of ~3-6/7 they used to slip in our bed early in the morning. Sometimes I had a hard one and told my kids to be carefull, so I turned on my stomac and had them close to me. It was nothing sexual for me, it just happens in the morning. Children played with me climbed on me, hit me in the crotch without purpose. It stopped the moment they didn't like it any longer. All the time my wife was around or in the same bed. She sleeps naked too and she used to bath/shower with our kids too.
Bathroom still is not a place we close doors. Any one is free to walk in. And if some one doesn't like it, we respect that.
For me this is a normal way to teach children about nudity. If you hide and close doors you make it special and children always want to find out more.
I think it's absurd that young men and women never have seen a nude guy or girl before. I have met many here on this side and most were American.
They didn't have a clue about what nudity is in real. Is that why it's made so sexual in US?
Most of all I wondered the advice to see a pedestrian to talk about having bath with your children ...... Can't you people use your own heart? your own parental feelings????

Steve, enjoy your children. I'm sure you are a good father for your daughter and you will also be for your son to be born!

Bathing with one's babies may be fine, as why get a backache bending over to bathe them. But when one's children are old enough to bathe themselves, why not let them have some privacy to do so?

Hot water isn't that expensive, that we should have to bathe together?

Bathing with your kids doesn't make you a pervert ....
It's just good for them to get used to nudity and for parents and kids it's quality time. I still know how I liked showering with my allways busy dad. ....

No it is NOT.

Don't worry about what your brother says mate. I bathed with my Dad when I was a kid and I'm not fucked up.

If you do share a bath or shower, bathe your kids and get them the hell out of there. Seriously--you're there to get something done; so, do it and get out.

And bathing your kids in a swimsuit sounds kind of weird.

What are you hiding in there, Darth Vader? The Apocalypse? Your ween drop off, maybe? If you're bathing your kid in a swimsuit, the kid's got to wonder if there's something wrong with you. Something wrong with them? My parents bathed me in their natural undressed state; i remember it vividly, and i'm fine with it. I think I would have found seeing them in shorts or whatever very strange and maybe troubling.

My dad raised me alone and he used to bathe me up until I was about 6. It's never bothered me, we didnt have a lock on the bathroom door either so we cud come and go as we pleased. Nothing wrong in bathing your children but maybe ask them if at bath time they want to have a bath alone or if they want you to be there. That way your getting an honest opinion and you'll know when they want you to give them privacy. Just my little idea.

Actually, thinking about it I just remembered when I was young. I stayed at my uncles he bathed me because I was still young. He was full of hair and was hung. He is one of my favorite uncles. Again, I don't think there is nothing wrong with it.

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MrMXYZPTLK, I liked that post. You are the first one to bring up the issue of teaching the children good hygiene. Of course, ages will vary with each individual child, but I think it's important for children to see some differences, be able to ask the parent about those differences, get factual answers, and learn how to be a clean and healthy person.

I very vaguely remember baths with Mom and showers with Dad, but I'm pretty sure I demanded to be independent and do it myself by the time I was 4.

Jumbo747jet, I like your answer, too. Have you ever been to Naestved? I had an exchange student in my senior class, she was from Naestved. After we graduated, she moved back to Danmark; a year later, she came back to U. S. to visit me (and brought her handsome boyfriend!)

What´s wrong with you Americans? Why are you so afraid of nudity?! To be nude with your children taking a bath or a shower is the most natural thing in the world and not harming in any way to the child!