Published on 12, July, 2020
Our Son who!s is seven won’t always have a bath or shower. My husband just kept telling him to have a bath last night over and over but our Son wouldn’t. Was my husband using the right approach?
Telling him over and over is not the correct approach - it will only reinforce the fact he can ignore you. He's 7, not 17, If he really needs a bath, pick him up and take him into the bathroom, and let him choose some toys to play with while you run it. Use bubble bath if he likes that, or get a bubble blower for him to play with in the bath, to make it more fun. Don't accept no from him - you are the parent. Children need structure.
However, if you are expecting him to have a bath every day, also consider whether he really needs to bathe that often. As AuTriker said, years ago (When I was little) we only had a bath once a week. Maybe 3-4 times a week would be a better idea.
7 years old is usually the age children start to understand days of the week. If he has reached that stage, you could mark a calendar or chart with "bath time" or a picture of a bath, plastic, duck, etc, so he has a visual prompt of when he will have to take a bath. If he doesn't understand that yet, you could stick a bathtime related picture up somewhere (maybe on the fridge with a magnet?) on bath days.