Children bathing together

Growing up on a farm with no running water until plumbing got installed the mid-70's, all of us kids would get piled into a big metal tub in the middle of the kitchen and bathe together. It was no big deal and a perfectly normal thing to do back in the day. Mom and grandma would spend an hour or so boiling up a dozen+ pots of water for the tub (2 at a time). No parent in their right mind would spend endless hours boiling dozens upon dozens of pots of water to fill the tub each time for each separate child. If they were to do that, the last kid would still be bathing at 3am.

Believe it or not, families back in the day used to be very close-knit. We lived in small homes, shared bedrooms, shared bathtubs, and did everything else together.... as a family. We worked together, we played together, we bathed together, we slept together. There was no "ew" factor about any of it.