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Yes, I had baths with my mam, but not with my dad.

I can also remember being very tiny and having a bath in the kitchen sink.

Dianne xx

We had a brand new council house from when I was 2 so always had a bathroom, but I think I remember being bathed in a big round enamel bowl/bath when I was small, in front of the fire. We didn't have central heating till I was 15.
Don't remember being bathed with my younger brothers, and definitely not with Mum or Dad, never saw them without clothes, on don't think I even say Dad with underpants on. Neither of my parents ever stripped down to swimwear on the beach, they didn't swim, just paddled in the sea with us. No wonder I never learned to swim!
I used to have my son in the bath with me til he was about 2 or 3.
Lizx

I remember being bathed in the sink as a tiddler

I think we had baths with Dad and i remember Mum calling wither my sis or I up to scrub her back but her bath was her time.

Sis and I bathed together more often than not and then as we got older it was a fight over who got the water first....

As for tin baths, I remember them from visiting Ireland as a kid. My grandparents didnt have a bathroom until the mid 80's and Nanna used to put on a coal fire and then we shared the tin bath in front of that. My sis used to get terrible chilblains!

love T.x

No Rose!

My nan lived in a posher area of Liverpool than us, and had a bathroom with an inside toilet and a bath. I remember having the occasional bath at her house. The rest of the time I was given a bath in the back kitchen sink, or a good scrub down when I got too big for the sink.

When I was about 12ish, I was given 6 old pence on a Friday to go to the public wash house.
There the lady in charge filled the DEEP bath with lovely hot water, gave me a big white towel and let me stay there for about 1/2 an hour. Then she would knock on the door and say "time". Time for me to get out.

When we emigrated here, I was in my element. Not only did we have a bathroom, but we also had a shower!

Can't be bothered with baths, they take too long. I'm a shower person.

Deb

When I was a kid, bath night was always on Sunday, yup - once a week, whether we needed it or not. lol

Dad had the bath first, the my elder sister, my brother and I would share it next, then my poor mum got in last.

When I had my own child, back in the 80s, we used to have baths together, especially when she was a baby.

And I NEVER saw my parents naked. Lordie, I dont think they even saw each other naked! lol I remember dad would always get undressed and into his PJs in the bedroom, while mum got ready in the bathroom.

Deb does that mean you bathed in the toilet ??

Rosex

No - we didn't have a bath, just an outside toilet.

we had a tin bath and really there was no room in it for more than one - anyway, as the water had to be heated up in the gas boiler first, youngest [me] got in first, followed by Mum and then Dad. Never once saw Mum or Dad undressed and thinking back on it, apart from pictures in the National Geographic magazine [usually of natives in the jungle somewhere!!] the male body was an absolute mystery to me until I got married!!

I think I had a bath with my Mum when I was little Muffs, but never my Dad,


Caz xxx

No Muffy, our bath was one of those galvanised ones that hung on a nail outside the house........come to think of it, I think it would have been small for an adult......maybe they just had a stand up wash.....

Evening Muffy..

Yep I was bathed with my middle sister till I bite her on the back.....Never bathe with my parents but my sisters or parents used to bath me.....

I had mine in the bath with me up to being toddlers...when they try washing your hair or washing your face....and I used to bath all 3 of mine together and got the pictures to prove it...Thing of the past that is.....

yep i bathed with both my mam n dad

not at the same time tho lol

i also bathed with my brother till i told my friends at school then he refused to be bathed with me again lol

No.
I was the only girl in the middle of 6 boys untill I was 11,( when mom had twins (another boy) but my first sister,) (and another sister later)
so I never had baths with the lads, however we did share the bathwater, the eldest three boys had a bath first... then I had fresh water and a bath to myself, then I would get out, and the youngest boys would get in...
I was never allowed to walk around without clothes on, and if I had my dressing gown on, even when older, my dad would say;''I hope you have got clothes on under that''
cmd

KID IN THE FIFTYS
YOU NEVER UNDRESSED IN FRONT OF PARENTS.

MY KIDS BORN 1968-72 WERE BOUGHT UP TO BE A FREE AS THEY WANTED WHEN YOUNGER REGARDS BEING INDOORS

AND IN A WAY STILL ARE
AND I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE THINKS

YEH I GOT OLD 58YR BODY,,,
I WISH IT WAS IN GOOD NICK BUT FALLING APART,,,

BUT STILL WORKS

NOW IF ON CAN GET OH'S MOTOR RUNNING

i can remember having a bath

with my mum when i was little

Golly I'd forgotten that, a zinc bath in front of the coal fire in the dining room.
My brother and I went in separately.
When we came to Canada I was 7 and we had bedrooms on the 3rd floor of the house, with our own bathroom. my brother and I opened the window and brought in some HUGE icicles, and put them in the bath ( a wonderful deep one on legs). I remember our shock when we checked our icicles and found only a few drops of water left.We weren't used to a bathroom being warm!!!!
maxiMary

No...............we had a tin bath too and I can't ever remember seeing either of my parents in their underwear.

They were either in nightclothes and dressing gown or fully clothed.

xx

Yes i was also in the tin bath era, same water , 3 kids took it in turns., with the odd top up of hot water

i used to have a bath with me dad,he,d get in first and when there was enough bubbles,i got plonked in with dad till i was hmmmm about 5-6.
and one of grandaughters would have bath with son till she was 3,then he felt she was getting too old.xxx