I fill the tub up first. Grab a kid and dunk them in. Once they're in it's a fight to get them out.

We showered with our infant daughter once she got a nasty head cold and we decided that we could use steam to help things clear out. We got hooked because of the ease and efficiency.

We decided recently to move her to the tub as part of an evening routine. She gets a bath every evening (unless we're out a little later on occasion) but it's much more for play than washing. We probably WASH her every other day or so. It has picked up to that pace as the weather has gotten nicer and she's out on the playground at day care.

Whoo Hoo! Season Three!!! Love the new 3d titles. Looking good. I'm so bummed about the bubble baths. :-( My daughter loves bubbles and I was thinking about getting the Flo from Boon so we could have bubbles and rinse the soap out of her hair. She so does not like getting water and soap in her face. Keep up the greate work. I'm going to try the empty plastic bottle and mom in a t-shirt tonight! Thanks Daddy Brad!

We're doing showers with the infant now, but if he gets too soapy, it gets a bit unnerving for me 'cause he gets slippery. He seems to like it so far. The kid is hardly even playing with basic toys, let alone bath toys, but we already have that frog on the wall! It's so cool! (So don't put me in this weeks drawing please.)

Cool new titles. Looking forward to the rest of Season 3!

Somewhere along the way we found a foam "highway" set with lots of highways sections and cars. Our 4.5 yr. old son loves to build a road on the wall and have races. Bath time used to be so hard, but he loves it now!

Great to have you back.

Our son gets a bath every evening as a part of the "winding down to bedtime" routine. I didn't know about the bubble bath issue and he loves the foamy water. Gotta come up with a way to transition out of that, i suppose.

The rinse cup with the silicone lip is great! My wife found this at Target a few weeks ago and it does may rinsing shampoo out much easier.

Another tip for making bathtime fun is to break out the dollar store bubbles. The bathtime (and surrounding area) is already wet & soapy, so what's a little more of the same? Plus there's just something magical about soap bubbles - nearly every kids seems to love 'em!

What I find really useful is the hand held shower head. You can fill the tub with water for the kid to play in, but those hand held shower heads with the output turned low for light rainlike pressue works great for rinses. I just wish they made one with a shutoff valve at the head so you could turn it on and off with a push of a button. It's good because it's clean water. You don't keep repouring the dirty, soapy, pee pee water over your kid's head which will reduce the overall eye irritation. Also a quick post bath rinse before he leaves the tub will remove the residual bathwater junk from the skin which might help if your child has sensitive skin.

Even the sprayers on the kitchen faucets work well with the portable infant tub or sink bath. Still, I wish they made one with a shutoff button on the head on both the shower and sink versions.

I actually put the foam letters or shapes on my forehead! I get it wet and then put it on my forehead, and my son tries to reach up and grab it off, while I rinse the soap out of his hair. I also definitely use the one step ahead pitcher that you highlighted.

letters on your forehead. ok, that's a first, great idea!

Hey Guys, Thanks for the great segment! Just became a Dad of a beautiful baby girl and Daddy Clay hit the nail on the head, bath time is VERY important for us Commuter Dads! Thanks again, keep up the great work.

My son enjoys bath time. I loves to get in the bath and play. The problem we have is getting him out of the tub. We even drain the water and sometimes he does not want to get out.

We make bath time fun. Every other night is a full bath and the other night are play baths, when all the toys come out. I love the idea about the picture on the ceiling to help them look up, I'm going to try it tonight.

Awesome information, keep them coming.

I love the new intro guys! Cool effects.

One thing we do with our son's bath is to keep a seperate plastic container in the tub filled with water to rinse him with so that it stays clean while the rest of the water gets 'contaminated' with dirt, soap, & um...well, pee. :-)

Fun post/video! In our house I'm the commuter parent (mom) and so I am "on" for dinner, bathtime and bedtime. Occasionally we can squeeze in other play, but my son is ready for bed by 8 at the latest so usually it's a short amount of time to do dinner and the bath before bed.

I found once I could get him to lie down in the tub for hair rinsing it was easier on us both. Some nights daddy will bathe with my son (who's just now two) and that's how my son learned to "float" (although he's really not floating per se since the water's not that deep). Mostly we've just dumped the water on his head and he hasn't minded too much, although I feel like I'm waterboarding him or something, and would prefer him to look up to avoid the water in his face.

As for the bubbles, we've just used a little of the baby wash stuff we use to wash his hair and body. We don't do it all the time, but he does love bubbles, so we have brought the regular bubble solution into the bathtime routine. It also helps me slow down and let him be in the tub longer if I'm blowing bubbles for him. Otherwise I tend to rush him through his bath to get done quickly and efficiently (hard to transition from work-mode I guess).

Oh, and blowing bubbles for him while he sits on the potty (we're just starting that whole thing) is another hit! He'll actually sit for a few minutes if I'm doing that.

Reading Izzy's comment makes me wish we had sprayers in our house.

I wish we had included something about encouraging kids to get out of the tub in this segment. Lots of folks have written in about that being a challenge. I may start a thread over in the forums on that subject. If you have a thought on that, you can post it here or on the forum.

I started a discussion on getting kids out of the tub on our Ning site. The DadLabs Crib.

yes to the plastic bottles! but you had better have a new and better one ready when it comes time to toss the old one that's gone gross!

yes to the plastic bottles! but you had better have a new and better one ready when it comes time to toss the old one that's gone gross!

I work evenings, so I usually give my son a bath in the mornings so we can have our bonding time.