My biggest tip for a successful bath time is to get everything ready in the bathroom before you start: Then you won’t have to quickly dash out to grab some pyjamas ( a child can drown extremely quickly in just a few inches of water so MUST NEVER be left alone at all).

Make sure that the bathroom is not too cold and ALWAYS test the water temperature before letting the child get into the bath.

Adding some bubble bath can make a bath more fun for children as can supplying some bath toys.

Be aware that bath toys can become toxic in extreme cases more here

When I was a child I often shared a bath with my younger sister.

One of the bath toys that mum gave us was a plastic soap dish in the shape of a frog; he had a hole on the top of his head and I decided to fill him up with water. My sister put her eye close to the hole to see if it was full and I am ashamed to admit that I couldn’t resist squeezing the frog making the soapy water squirt into my sister’s eye.

When she started crying because her eye was stinging our mum came rushing in and when she discovered what I had done she smacked me on my leg and because I was wet my leg was smarting as much as my sister’s eye. I defiantly learned a lesson that day!

When my own children were small I would sometimes let them take a bath with me which we both enjoyed.

I also often put all of my boys into the bath together as this saved me time and cut down the water bill

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Make bath time a part of a child’s bedtime routine here as a warm bath should relax a child and hopefully aid sleep.

As always questions and comments are welcome.

Until next time.

Karen

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