Bathtime Tips: Helpful Hints for Bathing Twins, Triplets, Multiples
Keeping young children clean is difficult enough, but when you've got multiples, bathtime can be quite a challenge. With only two hands, and two or more slippery kids in the bathtub, parents of twins and multiples need to employ some special strategies. Here are some quick tips and helpful hints about bathing twins, triplets and multiples.
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What do you do when there's only one of you ... and two (or more!) of them? Handling them both in the tub at the same time can be too tricky. That's when it's best to take a tag team approach.
A detachable, handheld shower head with a long hose makes shampooing and rinsing much easier in the tub.
Trying to manage two babies in a tub when you only have two hands is tricky. They're as slippery as little fish in that watery environment. Try this trick to make bathtime more manageable.
Make bathtime fun with sudsy "paint" that your twins/multiples can use to decorate the tub -- and each other.
Playing in the bathtub isn't just fun, it's good clean fun! Create sudsy "paints" using gelatin and dishwashing soap that twins/multiples can play with in the tub.
Some children don't like the feeling of water in their eyes, making bathtime an exercise in frustration for both parent and child. Use this trick to keep the soap and water out of their eyes and make bathtime quicker and more fun.