I have a question about bath time

I still wash my 5y.o.'s hair and I will leave her in the tub to play, alone. I keep the door open, yell to her every few minutes.. ask if she's ok and such. We have a one level home, so I'm never too far away. She calls for me to help her get out.

I'd let dd do things alone, but pretend you are downstairs! I'd sit outside the bathroom door and look at a magazine or something if I were you!

My dd has had time in the bathtub by herself for about a year and a half (she'll be 6 in Jan).  I find many reasons to walk by her bathroom every couple of minutes to make sure all is well.  I'm usually not too concerned because she uses that time to talk to her bath tub toys, etc.  As soon as I don't hear a splash or a sound from her, I'm either in there or hollering to make sure all is well.

She just recently started washing her hair by herself too - I still help her rinse but it's amazing at how proud she feels that she takes a bath all by herself. 

Good luck :)

my daughter just turned 5 at the end of september..she was bathing herself since she was 4..i am very protective of her bc her father is in the army and has been in and out of her life for the past 4 years of her life..i just stay upstairs and do other things..and i check up on her every few minutes..but i am very protective of her at bath time only bc anyone can drown in an inch of water..and it is very scary..well its ok to let her do it herself..just make sure u keep an eye on her..

No...we still "check" our boys to make sure they soaped up but we allow them to do the soap part and the rinsing part. We just hang out to make sure that they did a through job of it.

My daughter turns 6 in Jan and has been washing her  body for some time now, but I have been helping her wash her hair until about a month ago.  Now she washes her own hair,  I only turn the water on.   She turns the water off, but I watch her do it.  My boys will be 5 in Dec and I still wash their hair, but they wash their bodies.  I turn the water onn & off for them.  I leave all 3 alone in the shower or the tub.  I let my daughter close the door for showers.  For baths, she must keep the door open just a crack.  I'm normally walking around upstairs and can hear her.  The boys haven't asked for privacy yet while bathing so the door is always open.  If someone is taking a bath and I want to go downstairs, I ask one of the other kids to sit in the bathroom and "watch" the one in the tub so nothing happens to them.   None of the kids mind being "watched" by their sibling.  I can hear them downstairs anyway as long as I'm not making any noise myself.

My kids bathe together right now. (5 years and 18 months) I wash their hair and the 1 year old's body, and then let them play for a bit with the door half open. I'm never more than a few feet away and am constantly checking in and Alexis knows to yell for me if she sees Matthew doing anything bad, like trying to stand up in the tub and such.

I still wash him up and rinse him. Then he plays on his own & I check on him frequently. Then I help him get out & dried off.
I think his older sister was 6 or 7 when she started showering on her own. 

DS has had time in the tub alone since he was about 3-1/2, starting a minute or two at a time, then we went to me filling the tub and washing his hair and he would play and wash his body around 4, now we're down to me filling the tub and leaving - he does all the rest.  I find bathtime is the perfect time for me to fold and put away laundry (the bedrooms are the only other rooms upstairs with the bathroom), but sometimes I will stay downstairs in the living room, and rarely, I'll venture as far as the basement for 10-15 minutes while he's in there.

I would let her bath by herself, but if you don't feel comfortable just stay upstairs in another room.

We turn the water on for our kids but they have been taking themselves a bath since they were 3. But I do check on them to make sure they get all the soap out