Standing in the bath

Every bath time now, since Jesse knows how to stand, this is all he wants to do when in the bath... Stand up! I am forever throughout his bath time sitting him down and saying 'No' or trying to stop him standing up. I have a non slip mat in the bath but im just scared he'll slip on the parts of the bath that dont have the mat on it and hurt himself. He has plenty of toys in there so its not like theres nothing else to do.

Has anyone else had this problem and what did you do? Im wondering if he is just bored of the toys he has in there or is it just a new novelty to stand?

DD started to do this when she could stand, and it went on for weeks! LOL. I just let her do it and i stayed real close so if she did fall i could catch her head before it connected with the taps. To be fair she never did fall, but i never stopped worrying about it. It depends how warm it is where you are but i found opening the bathroom window provided enough of a breeze that sitting down in the lovely cosy water was more tempting. Mainly i just put up with it since i could tell from her face when i said "no" and sat her back down that she had no idea what i was on about. She was 10 or 11 months when it started.

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I recall having this problem vaguely because I don't think it lasted too long. Have you tried just letting him stand up for his bath time and ignoring it? Perhaps he'll get bored with the 'no attention' aspect after a while. I'm not sure if you're already having a bath with him, but if not, perhaps you could try that for a while.

Yeh i might do that, just let him stand and stay close. He loves doing it as all he does is talk and smile the whole time.. and as you said Hoobley.. saying no just makes him laugh as he has no idea.

Amygirl, no im not having a bath with him.. i think if i did the whole time he'd just wanna climb all over me.. but yeh thanks for the input.. i might just give it a go and let him stand.. as you said, lets hope he gets bored with it!

Our DS use to do this and once he did slip and fall and we weren't fast enough to catch him and he chipped a tooth on the edge of the bath.

Our strategy was to continually ask him to sit down. Then, when he persisted, we would tell him that if he didn't sit down, he would have to get out of the bath. It only took a few times of actually removing him from the bath for him to get the idea that he had to sit down.

Oh dear.. see thats what im scared of Kara. Hmm definately given me a lot to think about!! little rascal!

Yep, Cooper is certainly going through something like this also. He is now 11 months.

When he started to do this at about 10months, I thought that I should just let him go and that he would eventually learn, but someone said to be insistant about saying 'NO'. As soon as I did this, he started to sit down straight away. Most of the time he listens to me, but there are some times when he doesn't.

I bought a non slip mat at a reject shop for about $5 and it's just as good as one that is $30. It is also small and there are parts where he could slip if he was to stand up there, but you could always get 2 to cover all of the bottom?

Sorry, wished I have an answer, but just be persistant and he will learn.

Yep, same problem here too. I also let him stand but ready to catch. He's persistent and strong!! I'm pretty sure Jack grew out of it so hopefully it won't last long.

Will has been doing this for a few months - we used to sit him in a bath seat but he's got so he climbs out of that now so have given up with that. I hate it when he does it and have tried the No and sit him down millions of time. 4 or 5 days a week i actually have a bath with them as it's easier to be able to keep hold of at least an arm if he falls 9i know you said you didn't want to bath with him for being a climbing frame! definately know what you mean!). As i have an older one in the bath also who can be very active and push him over (by accident) i always have to have hold of one part of him - pretty back breaking but is the only thing i can rely on as we have had some scary times where he has fell and gone under (even just from sitting) and even though we have him up in a microsecond he still screams hsi little lungs off as he is so frightened (even though he goes under at swimming fine).
Anyway, rambling on and probably not helping but what we did with Osc and are now doing with Will is just bear with it for now - keep holding on to an arm and when he gets abit older and understands more then we will start back with the 'no' etc.
What saves our back a little is sitting on one of Oscar's toddler chairs as it's so small its the right height for us to hold onto him but still be sitting and not kneeling.

Good luck Kellxx

Julie x

Yep, Tallon did this. We gave up, and he has showers with daddy LOL. They have a great time playing around on the shower floor together each night.

Mumm2boy.. i might think about getting another mat and see how that goes.. good idea.

Well looks like its just the norm for them to go through this stage.
I can imagine what it would be like with 2 in the bath Julie!

Thanks guys.. will try a few of your tips.. but looks like i may be stuck with the standing until he's over it .