My son loves water. He loves to play in it, he loves to drink it & he even likes to wash with it. If I am washing floors, walls or doors he loves to get right in there and help with the process. He has even been caught getting his own bucket and rag to clean all on his own (this is frowned upon as it usually leads to a lot of water where it isn't wanted as he isn't the greatest as wringing out the cloth yet).
Where he lived before coming to stay with me he played with water so much at the kitchen sink that he swelled up the counters (they had plans to redo the kitchen anyway after he left them). He will stay in the bathtub for up to two hours playing some days. Some days he will have three baths :) (I let him bathe on demand on the most part...if I can't remember when he bathed last, I tend to give lots of encouragement for him to take one...he rarely needs much encouragement)
He is an 'able' boy and very much loves to 'do' for himself. This past week I put out a small jug of water for him on the counter with a cup. He was able to get himself a drink whenever he so desired the only 'rule' was he needed to drink what he poured and he wasn't supposed to 'muck' and dump the water back into the jug. (I am working on teaching him that when 'sharing' something like a knife or jug that we don't lick it, etc.) Now he just needs to learn that he doesn't need to drink the whole jug every time it gets filled up :) the boy does not have to worry about being dehydrated! He went through many pants as he wasn't able to get to the toilet intime as he was peeing SO often. Hopefully the longer he has access to it, the less he'll over drink.
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