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I think it's really up to you, I started getting uncomfortable when my lo started getting super curious lol...

Yeah, I think when he starts getting curious/asking questions. I remember showering with my mom but never with my dad!

I remember being 4 years old the very last time I had a bath with my dad.

I think I have a double standard here. Boys bathing with their mothers seems acceptable longer than fathers bathing with daughters to me. I'd be comfortable bathing/showering with a son until either kindergarten age or until they wanted privacy or were curious to a point that made me uncomfortable. I think I'd only be comfortable with DH bathing with a daughter until she was 3 or so.

@mrbee: I don't know why. I know it's probably wrong, but I feel like because all children come from a woman's body and the physical connection of breastfeeding continues that closeness, that somehow I guess that physicality is more comfortable for me. When I say that, I only mean for my family, I think every family has different levels of comfort. DH is extremely modest & wouldn't be comfortable being nude with a daughter for long. I think when either party is uncomfortable, it's time to say the limit has been reached for that parent & child. Again, each family is different. Neither DH nor I, grew up with physically affectionate fathers, so paternal physicality isn't something either of us is used to.

@mrbee: aww I should have phrased that better, i won't be telling DH when to stop, when I said 'either party is uncomfortable' I meant either the parent or child, not the other parent, although I guess you'd need to respect that as well.

I would say about 3ish. I'm comfortable about nudity so we will stop when he starts daycare at 5

In general, I agree with everyone that 3 would be a good cutoff point. Me, personally, I would stop once I felt comfortable that LO won't accidentally drown or have an accident in the tub without me, which might be around 2 to 2 1/2 years. We have a large tub but that tub gets crowded pretty quickly.

Strangely enough, I feel like I can shower with LO well into age 5 or 6; maybe because showers are less personal?

I think I've only bathed with him once. My husband did most of the bath times. He stopped bathing with him for a while now. LO likes having the entire tub to play. Now he bathes with his sister so there's no room for either of us. I still change/shower in front of him though.

My daughter is a year and we both have only bathed with her once and each time, we wore a swimsuit. I understand that it is somethin people are comfortable with but it isn't for us.

I never bathed with DS but I did change in front of him. He recently started getting really curious about my breast. He recently called them "Big Giant Bouncies" and tried to drum on them. After that I will not change in front of him anymore.