I see no problem with bathing siblings together just as long as they are all pre-school age. My oldeset children are 2 years apart, my daughter was 4 and son 2 and I was still bathing them together. I believed I stopped when she hit kindergarten. I have bathed with all of my children. My husband has bathed with all of my sons. I believed he bathed once with mt daughter when she was a newborn. I seen no problem in this. We were in a hurry, he was in the tub, she needed a bath. Do I fear that he's a perv....no.

The six year old, it's time for him to start washing himself. Throw him in the tub, give him a towel....wash him up once when he's done. If you are bathing him daily...he shouldn't be that dirty. I have to bath my youngest boys everyother day due to eczema.

I read the thread and I read his statement. In his statement there is nothing there that would give me the impression that his wife was against this, unless I missed something.

As far as your neighbor, I can't speak on that. Everyone treats their babies differently. If he is a suspected pedophile, than that would be a problem, but if he isn't, him being the grandfather, stepgrandfather, or whatever, I could see how he could feel offended.

I agree with wicked girl. I was going to post something similar.

Grown men bathing with their children in this country in this day and age need to be arrested. I would rather error on the side of caution then have Papi(or mami) with all his dangling parts taking a bath with his daughter or son, but you do you and your father.

Call me hung up but I would rather be overly protective of my child then pretend children don't get molested & act like nothing is a big deal.

You know what LWicky I 've got a bunch of hang-ups about not being caught up in the black man being the PUBLIC ENEMY # 1, possible Molester category & my wife tells me that I need to chill out b/c it has made me act a little cold & indifferent to my God-daughter & she's noticed it as she got older, but I was always over compensating & making sure that THAT would never be attributed to me.

With my son, (he's 3 on October 5rd), I've taken showers with him b/c as a very small child, he would cry & beg to get in with me & he enjoyed it sooo much that it was like he had gone to the Fair or something.  Sometimes (in the beginning) his mother would be there in the bathroom with us, b/c it was her first child & she was afraid of him drowning or getting hurt in some way, but as it went on, she used(s)  that time for herself. 

IN FACT, it's a BIG deal for him to bath w/ his Dad or urinate w/ his Dad, (that is how he learned to stand up & do it) & ever since he was just over a year old he would either proclaim or ask to reaffirm that          "BOYS HAVE P-ENISES & GIRLS DON'T", so if he were bathing with a female sibling, he would have been at the age to notice the difference at a very early age.

Overall I don't see the harm in bathing with him & I don't plan to let other people's hang-ups dictate how & what I do in my home, since there is no molestation threat for us. 

signed

Grown Man

Ok let's be real here LWicky.

For you to say what you've said, the way that you've termed it & the way you came out with it, just seems to ME to say more about YOu & your own life & mindset, than anything else.  I'ont know what what is driving you on this matter, but heck that kind of distrust COULD have something  do to with your own choices in life & since I know that THAT may be true,...I can't fault you for how you feel, UNLESS YOU TRY TO BROADEN YO' SCOPE & HAVE YO' ISH APPLY TO ME & OTHER FATHERS OUT HERE WHO ARE DOING THEIR BEST WITH THEIR CHILDREN.

When you say that "any man....(blah-blah-blah...)"  then you are doing JUST THAT & it's hard for me to understand your issues, when you are projecting them onto me, given the fact that I KNOW I'm probably one of the best father's & hell just man, that you will ever be garced to converse with as it applies to my committment to my wife, marriage & child.

LJx