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<\/p>\nIt seems that when it comes to baths and kids, parents are often divided. While all parents want their kids clean, the frequency and timing of bathing one’s child differs from household to household.<\/p>\n
Some people argue that daily baths can irritate a baby’s soft skin. \u00a0Others argue that baths are important to remove germs from our body. On the flip side, overly clean living can harm our immune system because our body hasn’t learned how to defend itself against certain bacteria and can harm us in the long run.<\/p>\n
For many families, a bath is part of the bedtime ritual.\u00a0The bedtime routine is designed to help your child go from an alert state to a calm state.\u00a0Recently, I learned that\u00a0baths are not typically relaxing for children because they provide them with an opportunity to play. However, kids do associate bath time with going to sleep soon after, and that is why many families have adopted this as part of the routine along with the fact that it’s probably the only time in the day that they are able to bath their children.<\/p>\n
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In our house, giving my kids a bath does anything but calm them.\u00a0My kids could be dead tired, walking zombies, inconsolable and barely able to keep their eyes open… but if we put them in the tub, the moment we take them out they get a second wind. They begin jumping and rolling around on our bed, pretending to be ghosts with their towels draped over their heads, and singing at the tops of their lungs.\u00a0While it’s not necessary to have a bath as part of the bedtime routine, our kids are accustomed to it and they get excited about it. The moment \u00a0I utter the world BATH, my one year old son Nate is already half-way up the stairs heading towards the bathtub.<\/p>\n
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Baths also offer\u00a0my husband a way to spend some quality time with the boys after a day at work and for me to enjoy some down time. Baths also provide an opportunity for my boys to practice their independence. My two oldest boys (5 and 3 years old) are responsible for cleaning their body with soap. They love the ease in which they can pump out soap and shampoo from the Kandoo bottles and lather it up on their skin and hair. They both have learned to wash it out of their hair independently. We only jump in at the end when there is a chunk of soap still left on the side of their head.<\/p>\n
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My kids like Kandoo bath products because of the foam colours, great scents\u00a0and ease of use. I like them because they contain natural moisturizers, have no parabens, the no-tear formula, and\u00a0because it helps my kids be more independent. Isn’t that a parent’s ultimate goal?<\/p>\n
So what side are you on? Daily baths or once-in-awhile?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems that when it comes to baths and kids, parents are often divided. While all parents want their kids clean, the frequency and timing of bathing one’s child differs from household to household. Some people argue that daily baths can irritate a baby’s soft skin. \u00a0Others argue that baths are important to remove germs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How often do you bathe your children? Daily or once in a while? Who knew there was such a great bathtime divide http:\/\/wp.me\/p3dEqj-2ag","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[137227404,34960978],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n