[blparent] 15 Month old loves the dog's water bowl

[Veronica Smith]

Kind of funny, my daughter (13) still likes to splash.  If it rains,she'll
be one of the first out to splash. They never get over it.

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On 8/3/13, Sameer Doshi <sameer.doshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> My 15 month old daughter loves the dog's watering bowl.  If she gets 
> bored she will RUN to the bowl, splash her tiny little hands in it, or 
> pick up one end of it causing water to go everywhere.
> My poor little pooch needs her water out, but I'm not sure how to get my
> daughter to stop spilling the water.   My wife and I've tried stern "No!",
> tried making sounds, clappin gour hands etc when she gets close to the 
> bowl, but nothing seems to deter her.
> It's also a problem because I can't put the bowl in a place that is 
> dog-accessible and not baby-accessible.
>
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That's interesting! My 15-month-old daughter would also love to splash in
any kind of water if we'd only let her, including the dog's water bowl and
the toilet. Something about splashing is irresistible to her.
So we're contending with the same problem and there are two solutions we've
found: (1) get her hands out of the dog bowl or the toilet as quickly as
possible and take her to wash her hands, letting her splash the water in the
sink; or (2) since it's summertime over here and warm enough, find something
else that's safe to splash in, such as a plastic bucket of water that she
can play with outside--supervised, of course. I let her splash in the tub
too, when she takes a bath. I hope these children will figure out somehow
where they can splash and where they can't. Another solution is to just
redirect her to some entirely different toy or game.

Jen

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