how to shower the reluctant 3 year old

How To Shower The Reluctant 3 Year Old

I have been trying to get all my kids to take showers instead of having baths as my water bill last year was super high and I really should practise what I preach when it comes to being green.Kiphas been a doodle as he’s the oldest at 9.The girls have been a lot less of a doddle.The screams from them can be heard from across the street I fear, due to the fact they both hate the idea of having the shower on their faces as they can’t coordinate their hands to wash the shampoo from their eyes.Having a bad back doesn’t help either and I went back to giving them baths.This week I received my water bill and the air turned blue.I have a direct debit set up but the amount due each month made me realise I had to turn things around fast especially as there is a hose water ban being implemented due to lack of rain fall leaving water reservoirs at a all time low.

My mum suggested a shampoo shield which the girls will happily wear but the screams were just as bad.So this morning I told them it’s a shower or I’ll change their names to Stinky McStink 1 and 2.Cat had her shower after Kipand with a little help washed herself and shampooed her hair.So far so good, now for Mouse.Mouse first needed to be coerced even to take her clothes off using her new trainers as a new form of bribery .Once in the shower she wouldn’t move towards the shower head.So thinking on my feet I decided to use what was at hand and I began throwing the bath toys down towards the shower end.Quick as a flash she sat down and started to play with the toys.

I’m a frickin’ genius!!!

Now I can her body and shampoo her hair whilst she plays with the rubber duckies.

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18. March 2012 by Aly Hodge
Categories: FAMILY LIFE | Tags: 3 year old, duckie, shower, shower shield, sunfun, the things they say and do | 7 comments

Otilia

Very good idea! Will have to try it too
http://christinemosler.wordpress.com/ Christine Mosler

Aly you really are a genius! Very well done *wild applause*
- http://www.plus2point4.co.uk Aly
  
  She absolutely loves it now.It makes such a difference now I can shower them all.
actuallymummy

Ah that’s fab. I would love to get mine into the shower too, but the whole bath ritual is just engraved in our psyche at the moment
- http://www.plus2point4.co.uk Aly
  
  Bath time is fun when they’re young.The girls tend to fight a lot more now and soak the bathroom floor which isn’t fun for me.
http://babymeandfashion.blogspot.com/ Alex

Bless… My son (he’s just over 2 and a half) has just started expressing an interest in showering, so he’s hopped in the shower with my husband a couple of times and always has bath toys in there with him. He seems to love it so far! He does have a bath every night still, but one of us joins him so I don’t feel so bad about using the water. Sometimes the three of us get in!!
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- http://www.plus2point4.co.uk Aly
  
  The three of them used to have a bath together but Kipis too old to share now and he prefers showers any way now.It’s the time element too that gets a bit of drag with the four of us.Having all of us having showers now is such a time saver.