There is a very similar picture of me in an album somewhere. I’m about 3 or 4 and I’m sitting just like that in my grandmother’s big double sink. That would be around 1972/73.
I don’t know if I remember it, or if I have just seen the photo enough that I think I have the memory.
No, but I may not have been. I do remember seeing my baby sister bathed in a sink, and asking why they never bathed me in the sink. What I don’t remember is if I was told that I had been bathed in the sink before or not. But, at age 3, I’d expect that I’d be more likely to remember if it had happened.
I have no such memory but my wife clearly remembers being bathed by her mother in the kitchen sink…
28 years old she was!
I remember taking baths at Grandpa’s farm in the rain barrel. No running water yet.
Not the sink but I have vague memories of some sort of whirlpool…
I think babies were always bathed in the kitchen sink before miniature baby tubs were commonplace. That’s how I was bathed as a baby, not that I have any personal recollection however, my mother took pictures. 
I don’t remember it, but I know it happened. Grandma had pictures.
I don’t, but I remember my hair being washed in the sink with most of my body on the counter and just my head under the tap. I don’t remember why my mom did it that way sometimes, I think it was a prelude to cutting my hair.
Nope. My first memory of a bath was when I was about 3 and had the chicken pox while spending the week at my grandparents’ house (lucky them!). My grandmother did something that struck 3-year-old me as insane: she put oatmeal in the tub. Food in the tub, Grammy? Despite promises that it’d make me less itchy I was very concerned about this wackiness, but eventually consented to getting in when Mr. Bubbles joined the bath.
Oatmeal is very good for your skin. I think it’s especially supposed to help when you’re itchy, like baking soda.
Do laundry sinks count? I remember when when we were little kids, and we’d be outside playing in the mud, or whatever, my grandmother would give us baths in the stationary tub in the basement. We always thought that was fun. (I think I was no more than four before I got too big)
I remember an alternative ending where Tom Hanks shrinks back to the size of a baby and is bathed in a kitchen sink.
More seriously - my earliest memory is of exactly this - being bathed in the kitchen sink in my first house. And my mother told me that she used to do this. But I have no way to know if this is a genuine memory, and we should treat these very early memories with skepticism.
Wow, some people were quite old when they bathed in the sink! Including you.
(I think that photo is completely innocent. It doesn’t even show anything below the waist. I’m a little freaked out that i had to say i was over 18 to view it.)
We bathed our newborns in the sink, but once they could sit up, at maybe 3 months, we used the bathtub. One of us would sit cross legged in the tub, with the baby cradled by our legs. And by the time they were two, we just sat outside the tub and mostly let them bath themselves with our supervision.
Some photo sites have kiddie porn filters and restrictions.
I imagine most every legal site restricts kiddie porn. A laughing toddler, visible from the waist up, sitting in a huge sink for a bath, is not kiddie porn.
Not to beat this to death, but I’m assuming the filtering is done by AI, which will just see a child’s bare chest. I guess I watch too much Law & Order: SVU.
I have a girlfriend whose 30-ish son is drop-dead gorgeous. I posted a picture of him, bare-chested in workout gear, to share with some other girlfriends. Photobucket took it down immediately with an automated message that said it violated their guidelines.
Anyhoo.
As for bathing me in the sink at age 2, my mother had eight younger siblings, and her childhood home (immigrant parents landed at Ellis Island in 1921) had no indoor bathroom until the 1940s. She probably was an old hand at bathing kids in the kitchen sink. The youngest of those “kids” is now 78.
I don’t remember it, but I do know that all 4 of us kids were bathed in the kitchen sink as babies. I did the same thing with my kids. It’s just easier. You don’t have to kneel or bend over and the baby takes up more room in a sink so easier to hang on to. Once a baby was sitting then they graduated to the bathtub.
My mother made a big production of washing and cutting hair at home, but without any professional gear, so I do have fond memories of my hair being shampooed in the sink with a warm stream of water from the vegetable sprayer.
I didn’t do any of that with my kids. When they were infants we’d wash them in a plastic basin that sat on the bathroom countertop, then they graduated directly from that to the regular bathtub.
Yes, the only reason I think my memory is probably a real one is that it was from when I was 3 or possibly 4. I wouldn’t trust any memory from under 2, would be sceptical about 2-3, and TBH I’d edge on “probably” for most of my childhood, excepting a few very major events or ones that repeated a lot.