we do not have a bath tub..

@jazel_juan (15747)
Philippines
March 27, 2012 3:13am CST
so we make do of what we have. See, mostly rich people are the ones who have bath tubs here in our country...and my kids get to see bath tubs on televisions and they want to experience how its like..we always say soon, or like when we get to stay in a hotel maybe they can get in a bath tub.. the other night, my hubby was the one giving my youngest son a bath. My youngest then went inside the "balde" or the pail..and hubby said, we do not have a bath tub to enjoy but we can still enjoy with the pail lol.... my lil kid was happy... my point? kids are soo easy to please, hopefully adults are also that way too.
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@toniganzon (72277)
• Philippines
27 Mar 12
Children are very easy to please coz they have simple needs. We've been there once! We even have simple problems then. But as we grow older, life gets more complicated and so are our demands in life. That's why people who are childlike (which is totally different from childish) are good people.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
I also have learned to be child at heart toni, with that happiness comes easily.. @thesids, i also like chocos!
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
27 Mar 12
Hi toni Children are very easy to please coz they have simple needs. We've been there once Exactly my thoughts dear And I too have a little set of wants or needs. I only like chocos coming to me and also some good food
@sabado_dc (1001)
• Philippines
27 Mar 12
I honestly don't know what are the other usages of a bath tub aside from a pro-longed bath to soften impurities caught by the body so it could easily removed by a single rubbing.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
correct it do take time to lounge on the tub and well...just lounge. Plus it is a waste of water
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
27 Mar 12
Hi sabado I read somewhere on the internet that in-water deliveries are becoming popular as they provide good health for the newly born. Many in the west and some places here in India too have started doing that. Maybe this is another use of the bath tub which was discovered quite recently. On the lighter sides, I dont see much use of these tubs as to get the best results you would have to be in water for a longer time and many if not all do have busy schedules
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
27 Mar 12
Yeah, tv is a problem that way. People are happy with what they've got until they see what other people have. Then they want what they see on tv. Gail your child likes a pail. I had a friend with mo bathroom when I was a child. She felt like she was the only one, but I didn't care.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
28 Mar 12
They sounds adorable and sweet. I met a woman who was going back to Gautemala. Her children were happy with stick toys there. Here, they wanted cabbage patch dolls and transformers. She said she couldn't afford to buy them what they wanted.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
my kids are not that picky, any stuff that would make them happy is enough for them. They even do not have that much toys as they know money is tight for us..they would settle for paper airplanes..paper boats made out of used newspapers and magazines..
@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
29 Mar 12
my children understands that we cannot really afford to buy those too.. just this morning as i was about to leave from work, my daughter was making a kite out of sticks and plastic for my 4 year old son..they are sweet
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
27 Mar 12
Are the tubs very expensive? That's kind of hard for me to wrap my mind around. Its like when I was told about some country that only rich people have two cars. I'm like "huh??" because here those are things that we have and we aren't rich by any stretch of the imagination. A bathtub is alright to relax in, but you probably get a lot cleaner with that pail. When you sit in the tub you are also sitting in your own dirt too and it just gets back on your body again. The shower is much better and they have them now with settings to massage while you rinse.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
not really.. lol but it is just expensive here and not really a necessity..that is why it is expensive and people do not have that big bathrooms to put tubs.. some do not even have showers.
@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
Well, that is how it is here in my country my dear. Bathtubs are expensive here and yes only the rich have bathtubs here..and most of the rich ones here have cars.. we do not have that too. We are only in the average and we still cannot afford those stuff...
• United States
28 Mar 12
Wow that's crazy. The bathtub must be made of gold! I hope you'll get to have one sometime.
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@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
27 Mar 12
Hi jazel First, as toni said above - Children are easy to please just because they have simpler needs and it is easy to convince them as they are still much away from the evils we grown ups have - jealousy, greed etc. Adults too are that way but then the Society comes into play. When at college, I had read somewhere - we all are so very friends behind the closed college gates... once these gates open and we get into the real world, we start discriminating among friends - based on our jobs or even based on rich and poor. It is not something that we want to get into but then Life seems to become larger than it actually is and we find ourselves lost chasing those BIG Dreams of ours - the desires to be Successful, Rich etc. On the lighter sides, I am a child somewhere too. I can be pleased with some good chocos, loads of ice-creams, good tasty food and most essentially - the warmth of love!
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
choco - yumm!!!
ohhh yes i love lollipops! i even ate one today lol.. chupa chups i like the fruit strawberry flavor! I was also reading an article on the benefits of chocolate, so i will share some with you too as i am thinking of eating some later! i do snakes and ladders and scrabbles..and boggles!
@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
So agree, i do have a lot of friends way before college, before married life but when i got into this - marriage - children - career, only few remained as like you have said some started to discriminate, plus we cannot find common denominators to talk about. Unlike kids who can be with other kids without discriminating and the very good thing is they can get along very well even if their languages are different! I too can be pleased easily, i am young at heart, chocolates...ice creams..lollipops are still my thing
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
28 Mar 12
Dice lollipops - dice lollipops - gel and chewy ones for dear jazel
Yummy! Here I start with some dice lollipops. I was starting to think that many today dont like them as mostly I met people who always mentioned chocos but never these lollipops... great that I can now share them with you... You know I also love the snakes and ladders game... hence these dice ones
@Lhenni (1242)
• Philippines
27 Mar 12
...in the bathtub! - My kids were fond playing in the bathtub. 

Andrei got his car in him to play it there. 

They love the warm water this tub offers.

An experience they want to happen again...
No either at home. Year 2010 of July, my family had a night in Island Cove Hotel and Leisure Park in Cavite, a nice all-in resort near our place. There's bathtub in the room that my kids well-loved of. They just want to stay in the room because of that bathtub *LOL. I just told them, there's still more the resort has to offer outside. Then we roam... just after I promised that the bathtub will still be there until we go back *wink! Until now, it's been a year since then, and they still want us to go back in that nice resort... yes, one reason is the bathtub *LOL
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
kids do love these stuff right? They feel like they are in a pool or something
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
2 Apr 12
100 years ago, few people in the U SA had bathtubs or telephones. I grew up on a farm without electricity, telephone, running water, or that preverbal bath tub. We carried water, heated it on a wood burning stove, and took baths in a washtub. This was NOT 100 years ago, either.
@adhyz82 (36249)
• Indonesia
27 Mar 12
it same with me.. i had no bath tub too..
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@sabado_dc (1001)
• Philippines
27 Mar 12
I just used to soak my body in the river
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
27 Mar 12
When I stayed with my grandparents they never had a tub or running water in the house. But never the less I still wanted to be with them in the country over city with my parents LOL Grandma would boil water on her old wood cookstove and each of us bathed out of a basin for Sunday morning church. the rest of the time we went down to the little creek running through their property it was a spring and very cold water. But we washed there a lot.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
27 Mar 12
@sabado_dc i never bathed in a river before.. that sounds fun too @marie yes we do that too, boil water on a cookstove and bath in a basin!
@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
27 Mar 12
bless em. Get them a little wading pool and you can put some bubble bath in there and let them take a bath. They would get a kick out of that. My son when he was little used to go to the pond. he would come home holding bull frogs and muddy LOL So I would get the small pool out and get some floaty toys and throw bubble bath in it and he would sit there for an hour or so and play and get clean LOL Have a nice day.
@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
My hubby did suggested buying a little wading pool..maybe we will do that so they will enjoy playing!
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
4 Oct 12
hi, when i was a kid i really dreamed to have that bath tub in my house because i can swim there,i saw bath tub usually to the house of rich people,when i could have my dream house as my own i will put my dream there to have a bath tub.
• Vietnam
28 Mar 12
hello jazel...! It same with my family. But i think we don't need bath tub much. I like to bath with shower LOL.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
@sishy7 (27167)
• Australia
28 Mar 12
When my children were small, they used the bath tub to play and 'swim' a lot making bathing time fun and long. Now we don't really use it much and we're even thinking to get rid of it once we get around renovating our bath room. We have both showers and tub in the bath room, getting rid of the tub will add more space.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
it do add space to the bathroom since bathtubs are big! well it must have been fun when you see kids have fun in the tub
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• South Korea
28 Mar 12
Well, it's glad to see kids making their own way, utilize the resources they have. I also commend the father's positive response to it. In these little acts, we can learn from our children on how to have a positive outlook in life in times of nothingness.
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@jazel_juan (15747)
• Philippines
28 Mar 12
so true, they do remind us that it is nice to be child like again