Does anyone else have trouble with shower | ADHD Information

Wow!  That was my daughter trying to take a shower.  We would have to take her in screaming but it just got to the point of being to exhaustive.  I bought a shower radio and this has helped a bit.  Being able to listen to her favourite station seemed to distract a little.  She is now 13 and takes showers occasionally.  I was hoping now that she is much older and so much peer pressure that she would be self conscious of her body but not at all.  I have found my "nagging" does not help matters at all so I have enlisted my mom to phone every now and then to "casually" suggest about a shower.  If I get 2 showers in a week, I am the happiest mom on earth. 

I only wish you the best of luck and hope you have much better success than I do.
My dd hates taking showers.  She would rather do homework then take a shower.  We have been going to OT and it is helped with the senesory issues.  I also brush her every day.  When she is on medicine it also is much easier to get her to take a shower.   perhaps we should wash her hair separately before she gets in the shower, that might work

I find though it's the whole keeping clean at all that's an issue, nag to brush her hair, nag to wash her face, i still have to wipe her bottom as she will refuse to do it herself or try and use a whole roll of paper lol
god i'm stressed already, anyone else have trouble getting their child to have a shower? we don't use the bath as the boiler is old and as soon as you put the heating and hot water on it eats up the gas so we use the electric shower but DD doesn't like keeping herself clean and today we had to force her into the shower with her screaming and hold her there while my husband washed her then I washed her hair, the whole thing was stressful from start to finish.

once a week seems to be as much as i can get her to have one plus as it can be so hard I dont bother for the rest of the week My son is terrible about it. He prefers to keep his hair short so he can wash
it less often. What really freaks him out is the water on his face.

Can you wash her hair in the kitchen? I have my son lay on the counter with
his head at the edge of the sink, then I use the sprayer to wash his hair, kind
of like what they do in salons. It's fast and it doesn't use that much water.
Then he showers with much less trauma knowing he won't have to put his
face in the water.   If your daughter's like my son it might work out for you.

Eventually he'll take care of it himself, but for the time being, I pick my
battles, and it's easier all around to help him out this way.