Make Your Kid Stopping Screaming When You Wash Their Hair
You may have a child who likes to take a shower from start to finish-he giggles at the bubbles and only blinks when they are soaked in H20. Or, dear reader, you may have a child who howls like toenails when the shampoo touches their head.
For kids who are ready to jump out of the bathtub and pole vault, when you say it's time to flush, you need to use some special methods to get through the bathtub without Xanax or a damaged eardrum. Here are some ways to reduce the wailing.
Although this may not be suitable for super hygiene, it turns out that children do not need to bathe every day. The situation is different in summer, when sunscreen, chlorine and sweat are always present, but during the rest of the year, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, bathing every other day is completely fine. And because excessive washing will strip the hair’s natural oils and dry the scalp,
Use the right props to keep them busy and distracted
Put a hand-held mirror nearby and let your child play "hairstyle" while washing his hair. They can make mohawk, "twisty-twirlies" (technical term) or horns-anything that instills a sense of play and keeps serotonin flowing. Asking them to wash your baby's hair while you wash them is a great way to distract them from things they don't like, and these things are happening.
Let them do their own shampoo
For some children, it is not the rinse, but the sensation of shampoo being rubbed on the scalp. Try putting the shampoo on a towel and applying it this way, or see if your child wants to massage the shampoo by himself.
Play “what’s on the ceiling”
It can be fun to repeat "Look up... don't look down... Up!" in a more and more frustrated tone. If you want to take a break, try to ask your children what they see on the ceiling . Just like watching a cloud, water stains and small blemishes can magically become the "purple rabbit" or "trailer" of imaginative children. (You can also put some character-themed band-aids on the ceiling and let your children tell you who they saw.)
Give them a dry wash cloth for their faces
Some children feel much calmer when they put a dry towel on their face. This combined with lookup (if it can be achieved) can produce good non-screaming results. However, please note that the cloth itself sometimes gets wet, which makes it impossible to dry your face. But the important thing is that they will feel in control, even if they are essentially waterboarding themselves.
Get a shower hat or goggles
In addition to using a shower bucket with a soft contoured edge for rinsing, you can also wear a pair of not too tight goggles at any time to prevent terrible water from getting into your eyes. (Of course, grumbling from the tight goggles strap may run counter to the goal here.)
And if your kid is happy looking like a retired mall-walker headed to Early Bird Bingo, there’s always a shower visor.
Lie them down or use a shower head to rinse
Although some children may resist this completely, lie down and immerse everyone except the face in order to "twist" the hair in the bath water to be useful to others. For children with longer hair, call it "mermaid hair" and prosperity, this is an undersea party. Or, using a hand-held shower head connected to a bathtub faucet can make the experience of rinsing hair much less.
Also, seriously consider swim lessons
Bath time resistance is usually just a disguised fear. Many children are very afraid of water splashing on their faces. One of the best long-term ways to overcome this fear is to improve your child's overall comfort in the water. Although it takes some time (and it starts to be easier when they are a few months old than when they were three or four years old), after they learn to blow bubbles and immerse in water, they hardly even notice themselves. Submerged in a bucket of water in the bathtub.
