How Long did your DC use hooded towels for baths?

[alienhost]

I was curious after seeing the post in 0-12 about larger hooded towel sources.

Do your 3+ year olds still use hooded towels? When did they stop using the hooded ones and move to a regular bath towel?

[karlatta]

Heh, my 6 month old uses a regular bath towel. We don't have hooded towels around here. (Not that I have anything against them - we just never had them around, so we started with regular towels from the beginning.)

[ktsb]

DD just outgrew the smaller hooded towels (she's 15 months old). I just switched to regular bathroom towerls. On her they are huge enough to cover her head and whole body.

[PinkMartini]

Neither my DS nor my DD have ever used the hooded towels. Regular bath towels here.

[SiValleySteph]

My son is almost 3-1/2 and he uses a hooded towel that looks like a dog. He loves it.

He uses a regular towel sometimes, but usually his doggie towel. :D

I don't really care either way, so if he likes it, he can use it!

[MrsT]

My DS is like SiValleySteph's - he has a doggie hooded towel which he loves - but if it's dirty he uses a normal bath towel. So he uses a normal bath towel most of the time.

FWIW, I think they're cute but don't see the need to keep buying extra towels when he can use ours... ALL of our hooded towels from birth have been gifts. I probably wouldn't have ever bought one myself.

[AlisonCO]

I think that my kids used those hooded towels about 2 times for cute pictures when they were babies. We just don't have the room in our bathroom to store/hang them so they both use regular bath towels.

[SiValleySteph]

We just don't have the room in our bathroom to store/hang them so they both use regular bath towels.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do they take up more room than regular bath towels? :confused:

[AlisonCO]

Hmm, I just assumed they would need to hang on a hook like a robe - aren't they a funny shape with the hood and all? Can you just fold them over like a regular towel? Maybe I have the wrong picture in my head.

[SiValleySteph]

Oh, I fold mine (match up the seams) and then hang over the towel bar. :)

That's why I was wondering! :p

[catmom]

I haven't ever owned one :). I would really like to find a bathrobe for DD, though, but the only ones I can find are fleece, not terry.

[OctoberPrincess]

At 3 1/2 yrs. DS still uses the 4 PBK ones I got him when he was around 1, he just really loves having the hood on and they are still in excellent condition.

[alienhost]

I was just wondering if there is a period of time when kids "refuse" to use them or something. It sounds like it depends on what kids are used to.

I really like the ones we have (a PBK one and one from Kohls). She received another one for Christmas and I was trying to decide if I should exchange it for something else.

Personally I think they are fun. Certainly not "necessary" but fun for bathtime, at least for my almost 3 year old.

[emschwar]

We like the poncho style ones for Noah. He's using ones now that he started using when he outgrew the baby towels, though they're getting a little short now. I think we'll need to move up to the lands end or pbk ones.

[Natasha]

My kids are 2 and 5, and still use hooded bath towels. I don't think we buy them on purpose, but we have several (probably 3 each?), so they use those. They both love them.

[Ericka_Jarett]

Easton just uses a bath towel now he is almost 18 months. He outgrew the baby hooded ones, they are too short for him, now his sisters use them.

[DisneyGirl]

I still use the hooded PBK ones for my middle child who will be 3 and for my youngest child who is 6 months.

[jmvan74]

We use hooded and regular towels. I've actually been looking for larger hooded towels since Collin loves his "cape" after he gets out of the tub.;)

[BeachBum]

DS is 2.5 and I don't see giving them up any time soon. I like them because they are cute--and I find it easier to towel dry DS's hair when he is wearing one.
I prefer the poncho style, but those seem to be a bit harder to find.

[firefly]

my 5 1/2 year old and 3 year old still use them. .. The teeny ones have long been thrown away but the thicker bigger ones are still in the rotation.

[mamax2]

My girls are 4.5 and 2 and they use hooded towels, but not the baby ones. I love them, it's so much easier to dry their hair and they can kind of wrap up in one and wait while I get the other one out of the tub, etc. They have a fish and a mermaid. They'll use regular towels sometimes but they (and I) really like the hooded best.

On the storage issue... we don't have a towel rack in their bathroom, only hooks so it's actually easier to hand the hooded towels than a regular bath towel.