Seriously? Are these people chopping onions in their sink or something? All sorts of gross things hang out in my sink - way grosser than babies, that’s for sure. Cockroach babies, for one.
True enough, but there’s a difference between a 13 month old and a 31 year old in the tub. 
Meh. We bathed the Ogreling in the kitchen sink regularly when he was a larva. He bathes in the tub with mommy now, but he was fine.
My sis and I took baths together in the kitchen sink. Her on one side and me on the other.
I just hope my mother didn’t use dishwashing detergent. That stuff burns your va-jayjay something fierce (and I know this because once she DID give us bubble baths with dishwashing detergent. It was fun for like 7 seconds.)
She loves her crops. Treats them like her children.
Even if the unattended baby didn’t drown, it could easily whack its oversized head on the hard surface of the tub, much like an intoxicated xoferew did some years back. I’m scared of slipping in the tub to this day. Please watch your babies.
I’m aware of that – I’m just sayin’.
I remember when I was about three or four and my cousins and I would be playing at my grandmothers – if we got all filthy, we’d get baths in the laundry tub down in the basement. That was fun.
There’s an article on Yahoo right now about “Smart phones foster dumb habits among pedestrians” about how with smart phones, people aren’t watching where they’re walking while they’re TEXTING. In other words, it has nothing to do with smart phones whatsoever, but ordinary cell phone distraction is no longer news.
That depends on the amout of alcohol involved.
The 31 year old tends to struggle more, for one.
Either way, drowning is easy.
COMEDY is hard.
The last Weleda news or similar had an article about what’s necessary to keep a baby clean, and they stressed that baby skin is thin and simple, and that a lot of parents far overdo it with too much bathing that removes oils and then adding a lot of lotion.
Sponge baths are certainly enough for hygiene, given that adults can also go for ages without immersion-baths, just sponge baths or showers.
However, the warm water is very pleasant for the babies, and can be a nice way for the mother to spend quality time with it. But if you don’t have time for that, a quick sponge-down is certainly good enough.
It’s more that the design hasn’t been updated for society changes in the past 10,000 years or so.
Daily bathing is a pretty new concept.
Joe
likes the new concept, though
*What?! *Fucking gross. Who the hell uses a dish sponge for anything but dishes? Especially anything on the floor. Ick ick ick.
The reason people reacted to you washing shit into the sink, by the way, is mainly grossout factor. There are plenty of things that are probably perfectly safe and wouldn’t run the slightest risk of getting anyone sick, but they still squick people out. For hundreds of millennia, people who didn’t have a hard-wired aversion to getting feces near their food probably didn’t survive long enough to pop out many kids.
Remember kids: only mothers can bathe children. So soap up your vagina and get to scrubbin’ 'em with it.
I’m sure our scullery maid or the tavern whore could also clean my kid.
As long as that particular sponge is never used on dishes again, assuming it ever was, what’s the problem?
Sponge?!? Who uses sponges in a kitchen? I just use dishrags that can go in the bleach load in the washer. 
I am told that in the mid-60s I wandered off as a toddler and was found down by the irrigation canal. This in spite of the fact that my mom was hyper-paranoid because TWO of my cousins (out of like 30) had drowned. Apparently, prior to social media, mothers had to resort to doing stuff like cooking, cleaning, laundry, gardening and slipping off to speakeasies to neglect their kids. Yeah, I was literally on a leash after that.
The sink is re-used for cleaning things you eat off of. If the sponge isn’t also re-used for cleaning things you eat off of, it isn’t analogous and there was no point to bringing it up.
My sponges can go in the microwave.