Help settle this not serious debate between my husband and me

This is for kids old enough to play in the bath.
Do you wash your kids first then fill up the bath so they can play?
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Do you fill up the bath, let them play then drain and wash?

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To me, why would you want them playing in the dirty bathwater?

I give my kids a quick shower with the pitcher then let them play until they're done. My daughter is always done first as she doesn't like the bath. And yes, I bathe my son and daughter together, saves time. Plus my daughter doesn't cry as long when they're bathed together.

My husband will fill the tub, let my son play as long as he wants, then washes him using the same water, except for the hair, he uses new water for the head. Empties the bath then fills it for our daughter.

We let him play while we wash him, then when were done we open the drain and give him a quick hose off with the shower. The rule is he can stay in the tub and play till all the water is gone then he gets out

Start water, he gets in standing while I wash him first quickly, then he sits and I fill up the tub.
We do this for a couple of reasons but mainly because he usually pees as soon as the water starts and I don’t want him sitting in his pee.

I usually let her play first cuz she doesn’t like to be washed so I save that for the end cuz she cries and wants out anyways🤣

Run a bath, she goes in and plays and gets washed. I’m not a germaphobe, I’m not overthinking it.

I let them play then drain and shower. I’m not concerned about them playing in their own bath water before washing 😆

I hate agreeing with a man 😭

I’m even worse than your husband. I put both kids in. They play and wash all in the same water. I’ve never given it a seconds thought tbh

Weve started shower baths in our house as both my boys were scared of the shower so now doing shower baths for them to enjoy the shower more

Play, wash, then more play

Play first, because if I gave my son the option to "play until he was done" he would quite literally never leave the tub. So we play and then he knows that when we start washing it means bath time is almost over.....cut the post bath meltdowns to almost zero as opposed to the play second approach.

We do use new water for washing though.

Fill the tub to where her bath chair allows. Wash her real quick and then I let her play. She doesn't like being washed so I get it out the way first. If I do it the other way around she continues crying when I get her out and that's not fun for anyone. So I wash and let her play and then when I get her out she's happy. As someone said above I'm not a germaphobe and I'm not overthinking it. I few dead skin cells aren't doing any harm

I do a bit of both. I fill the bath, let her play for a short time, wash, play a little longer while the tub drains, rinse, then get out. We also make sure to use the potty before hand to avoid sitting in pee. but even when we don't she still tells me when she has to get out and pee.

I fill the water in the bathtub, play, wash, play alittle, then a quick shower rinse (like 2/3 seconds) at the end lol to wash off the bubbles 🫧

I wash my oldest first and drain the tub and let him play in the fresh water. But not anymore because apparently he’s too old for baths. 😑 he’s 3. He takes showers now.

I never drain it, are we supposed to?

Not sure what you fully mean, play in the bath?

Wash then fill up the bath, confused, why don’t you fill up the bath and wash them. Confused do they just play in the empty bath?

Get in bath, play, wash combination of both, get out...

When my son got a bath it would be wash first then play for a bit

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