Time to count! Wash baby's fingers in the bath and slowly count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! Where’s the other hand? There it is! 6, 7, 8, 9 . . . aaaaand . . . .10! Ten clean fingers! Counting with baby can help foster later math skills.
Splish-Splash! It's Bath Time
by Jordan Brown
Five years ago, when my son Finn was born, I thought the main purpose of bath time was to clean him. Hygiene was everything. In those early days of fatherhood, I focused entirely on the logistics--gathering all my supplies, getting the water temperature just-so, cleaning his belly button stump, keeping the water out of his ears, and so on. While all these details are important, they kept me from truly enjoying the bath time experience. Once I had the basics down, I discovered that baths are a wo...
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