Aug 08 2008
Unprofessional Bath Tip
Here’s a really brainless move to avoid when giving your toddler a bath.
My son loves to take his bath at the end of the day. He’s usually pretty dirty so I give him plenty of time to splash around before I try to get down to the scrubbing business. I realized yesterday that we had run out of our liquid bath soap so I headed to the soap drawer to find something else. My son is almost two now and we’re still working on the soaps and bubble bath that I received at his baby shower - that stuff is going to last forever.
Digging through everything I noticed we were out of liquid soap so I grabbed a baby bath bar and my washcloth and went to work. Everything progressed normally until I made a fatal mistake. In order to make things a little easier for myself I set the bar of soap on the edge of the tub. My son immediately grabbed it.
At first glance I didn’t realize what a disaster this was going to be but in less than five seconds he had set the soap back down and . . . yes, stuck his fingers directly into his eyes. The shrill, painful screams only lasted a few minutes but it was a brutal occurrence for us both.
Lesson learned: Keep an eye, and a hand, on that bar soap. 
I can’t even tell you how many times that’s happened at our house, since there is always a bar of soap in the dish, my youngest, who sometimes gives me the impression of having eight limbs, is always grabbing for it. It is definitely a disaster in the making.
I know what you mean mrsbear, my 6 year old decided that he would rather stick to the baby shampoo and body wash, instead of the grown up soaps.
Whew! So it’s not just me. Not that I’m comforted by the pain of other young kids but at least this isn’t one of those obvious things I should have known before I had my own kid!