Daily Baths or Showers?

Usually twice a week. But if we do something really active, they will shower after that. Once they hit puberty it will be every day.

the world won't come to an end if a kid skips a bath from time to time, but yeah, i'm a fan of daily showers and i bathed (or had my kids shower when they got older) daily.
my younger had eczema from day 1. we used cetaphil and olive oil and coconut oil and px stuff when warranted. pat dry, no fragrances etc.
i like clean.
khairete
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I don't insist, but she usually does because it helps her calm down for bed and detangle her hair. For my DD, excema was caused by a food allergy, so keeping away from allergens helped a lot.

Not that often. After puberty when they are masses of body odor or in major sports, yes.

I would use a wash cloth on important areas (!) including armpits and the face, and I use the wipes instead of toilet paper which do a good job in the major bacterial area of the anus.

I'm not sure where the huge fear of dirt comes from, but our over-use of antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers has created far more problems than it has solved. Aside from the chemicals involved in those, even the use of basic soaps on an excessive basis just dries things out, which creates a market for moisturizing lotions. The companies get rich but I'm not sure we need all of that ourselves! Same as the big glop of toothpaste they show on commercials (twice as much as needed) or the shampoo instructions to "lather, rinse, REPEAT" (twice as much as needed). Good for sales, bad for skin and scalp.

I think hand washing (especially before eating) and teeth brushing are the most important. The rest of it, not so much.

Both of my kids have eczema. They use soap every other day but because they also suffer from allergies they take a quick shower to rinse off nightly. They are older now but our allergist always said a quick rinse off for them.
My feelings are whatever works for your family.
Blessings to you

It depends.

When my now 21 year old was a baby, she had exzema and my pedi said to hold off on daily bathing. This lasted until she was about 3-4 years old.

She said make sure the important areas are clean but no need to soak in water daily when it could make things worse.

That and regular trips to the beach helped her issue.

To this day.. She has outgrown most of it and occasionally has an issue on toes or fingers.

You don't mention how old your kids are? I think that makes a big difference. My daughter bathes my 2 yr old granddaughter every night, but only washes her hair every other. My 16 yr old son could miss a night if he didn't have phy ed that day and it wasn't summer time (unless he was at the pool in the evening and then rinsed off after, he could probably miss). I have one daughter who only believed in bathing every 3 days and often used dry shampoo on her hair. She thought is was terrible. I have another daughter that bathes/showers twice a day, but goes to the gym twice a day, too. If your kiddos don't stink and can be reasonably clean of body and hair without bathing for a day or two, don't sweat it. I will say that when my kids were really little it was part of bedtime routine, so we didn't miss bath ever, but skipped soaping and shampooing some nights.

Good luck

We bathe daily because they get sweaty and stinky from playing outside. In the summer, when it's too hot to me outside, we bathe every other day unlesz swimming.

If we've been out (yard or in public), or raised a sweat - we shower (use to bathe our son daily as a baby/toddler).
If it's a lazy Saturday watch movies all day sort of day - no need to bathe.

my kids have dry skin issues. so i aim for a bath or shower every 3rd day. sometimes its sooner, sometimes later.

Mine have eczema - one very much so. He was advised to shower daily, and when skin still damp, coat himself with hydrous emollient. He has to put the cream on when he's trapped water in his skin otherwise it does nothing.
My little ones, every other day - and it's a bath, minimal soap. For us, it's playtime. Then we coat with the cream.
Sports/puberty kids - every day, shower. My teens have oily skin (with the eczema).

ETA: I was talking to a friend of mine about her child's eczema. She was instructed to bathe every day, even twice a day. The key is not letting them sit in soap. Even if you don't use soap, it's to let the skin soak in the warm (not hot) water. She was given the eczema national website and I looked it up (my kids have it). Here's what it says:

HOW SHOULD I BATHE MY CHILD WITH ECZEMA?

Daily bathing is recommended for infants and children with eczema. Baths are generally preferred over showers. Baths should be warm, not hot, and they should be short in duration, lasting about 10 minutes. The use of soap should be limited. Bubble bath, epson salts, and some other bath additives should be avoided because they can be irritating to the skin and worsen eczema. Also avoid the use of scrubbers, loofahs, and rough washcloths. Immediately after bathing, a moisturizer should be applied to the skin.

Our kids do every other day. Although sometimes life gets busy and three days go by! Gross, I know.

No. Right now it's 3 days a week. I've heard with my friends with older kids that bo becomes an issue around age 11 (puberty I guess) so I figure that's when we'll up the frequency to daily, unless I notice a smell issue sooner.

When we lived up north (in PA) and my daughter was young (under 4), I would give her a bath every other day or every two when it was really cold. Since she was enrolled in school she got a shower every night, she still gets one now that we homeschool. Her hormones are changing and her skin is oily plus the Florida heat.

Depending on the weather and the sweaty play 2-3 times a week. It's not good for your skin. Do your kids stink if they don't bathe every day? If not, then every 2-3 days. Your dermatologist's recommendations win out over our over-bathing society.

My five year old showers or bathes daily, but only scrubs and shampoos once a week. Possibly twice if he is esp dirty. The baby gets a rinse in the kitchen sink about 3x a week or after an especially messy poop. Neither have sensitive skin.

Not everyday with mine. How often- ummm... Most times on the 3rd day, and obviously if there dirty that day.

It all depended. When they were toddlers, it could easily be every other day. Unless we went to the park or something. Really, if we went outside after they were about 3, they got a bath, period. (It's really humid and hot here, so they would sweat and then stink, especially their hair). Before age 3, it was more an issue of "did they get any food or misc slime/dirt/snot/peanut butter in their hair?" And the night before church, always. :) Otherwise, every other day was fine, and they probably went 3 days on occasion. Dad wasn't home at bath time most nights, and some days I just wasn't up to the task by the end of the day.

Now that they are teens, it is most definitely daily. LOL

Oh, and as infants (under 6 months) it was luck if they got bathed more than once every 4 or 5 days.

Kids need a bath when they are stinky or visibly dirty.

Showers every few days, depending on activity level and temperature. If they look dirty or smell they shower.

Our goal is every other day. Usually in the winter months that can stretch an extra day if we don't leave the house much, etc. In the summer it sometimes is every day if we are at the pool, playing outside a lot, etc.

My kids have excema too and it's hard to balance. The winter makes them more scaly so avoiding unnecessary bathing is good, but then in the summer my daughter especially gets sweaty and her rashes get worse and then I have to shower her on top it...it's an ugly cycle!

Shower every 3 days - sooner if completely mud covered. His skin would peel off if he bathed daily.

My daughter has been taken a daily shower for quite some time. I had a small problem with excema and I learned to take quicker showers. I was told not to take showers so often, but can't stand to smell sweat on my hair or body.

My youngest gets very dry skin so every other day is best for him. My oldest has always been every other day, but as he is entering puberty we are finding that he often needs one every day now.

mine are every day when its hot, they get sweaty and hair gets oily. every other day in the cold, they stay inside more and their skin gets dry easy. as far as excema goes, i had it and so did my oldest girl, and your going to think im crazy. i woke up one night as a child with my hands bleeding, unable to move them. i had scratched the skin off the back of them in my sleep, thats where i had it. i woke my brother and he smothered them in vaseline and wraped them with ace bandages. the next day my hands were healing, without excema. i did the same with my oldest, hers was also on the back of her hands, but with vitamin d and aloe in the vasaline at night for about a month and her hands are now clear as well.

No. If the kids played a sport or were outside playing hard I'd rather have them clean and not stinky but if they were inside and didn't do much actual sweating and smelling up stuff I don't make them take a bath or shower.

Every other day in winter, unless yucky from sports. In the summer, as needed. When he was little it was more like every 3rd day.