Ok when i bathe my 20 mnth old daughter i have to fight with her to wash her hair b/c she does not like water being poured over her head. Ive tried making a game of it, ive tried the shower head, what else can i do!!
I used to give my girls a washcloth to hold over their eyes while we rinsed their hair. It seemed to work well because it was something they controlled.
I bought a plastic flowering can from the Dollar Tree...I figured I would use her own toy against her. LOL. Come to find out, she didn't mind me using her toy to pour water over her hair as much as the container I bought that had a flexible lip. Go figure. :-)
I have also tried to use a spray bottle on mist. I had to stop that one due to the fact that I also use similar bottles with bleach water for cleaning and she liked the water squirted into her mouth.
Hope these ideas help. Good luck.
My daughter holds a wash cloth over her eyes and tips her head back into the shower spray (we don't have a tub) to rinse her hair. After her hair is rinsed, she likes to wipe down the shower door with it. :) And when we did have a tub, she did not like having her hair rinsed either! The shower is actually a bit easier...never thought that would happen! Good luck!
What are you using to pour the water? If you have the little container that came with the plastic babybath tub thingee (if you used one of those when she was a newborn/infant)... then keep using that. If you don't, then get a 2 or 3 cup plastic measuring cup and use that. Fill it with warm water, and ask her to "look up at the ceiling... I think I saw Elmo up there" or something. Or pin something on the ceiling with thumbtacks for her to look up at. Then, when she is looking up, gently (not ALL AT ONCE) pour (not DUMP) a gentle stream of water from the top front of her forehead down towards the back of her head... use your other hand to gently rub the suds away from her hair, or support her back/neck if you need to. If she looks all the way up (and again, you may need to use your free hand to help support her from tipping over), then the water will NOT go in her face AT ALL.
My husband, when he would do baths for the kids, would just Dump the container straight down over their heads while they were playing in the tub. They weren't looking up or anything. They HATED it. When I would do it as I described above, my kids never cried, complained or had any issues whatsoever. Ever.
Good luck.
When my son went through that stage... I would, in our yard (which is fenced in and people can't see in), I would... take him in the yard, turn on a water sprinkler attached to the hose... I would have a towel, soap, shampoo,, and extra clothes... and then "bathe" him there. He didn't know nor fight about it. It was "fun" for him. And I got his hair clean.
And no, it was not a bad habit to then undo.
Then one day he was back in the tub, me washing his hair. No problem.
And yes, goggles. I tried that too... but my son hated that. My daughter would allow it though. Different kids. What fun... ;o)
all the best,
Susan
my Baby is 22 months and she is the same way..I just try to make it fast...Its the first thing I do and then I give her a gummy vitamin....so yeah she cries but its for about 1 or 2 mins...
Oh Just remembered my daughter does NOT cry when she takes a shower with me. she loves the shower and doesnt mind getting her hair washed when we are in there...so I will shower with her when Daddy is not home to bath her while I shower
I have always placed one hand right at the hair line, tipped their heads back and used a cup/shower head to rinse the hair...you use your hand and make sure no water gets in her eyes, it shouldn't even fall towards her face, it all just goes back towards her back.
They also make special visors you can by to keep the water out...but honestly you can accomplish the same thing with your hand!
Good luck!
