We set a timer in our house for bathroom time. Harsh? Maybe. But there's five of us here when it's skid night and everyone deserves hot water and bathroom time. You get a ten minute shower here and 15 minutes if you choose a bath. DH and I feel we are the adults and deserve to have the "luxury" of hot water as much as the kids. Especially since we are the ones cleaning, feeding, nurturing the kids.

Tell her to get her ass out of the bathroom. Can't she masturbate in her bedroom?

Is she sneaking anything in the bathroom with her? Ipod perhaps?

Why is she allowed in there for that long? SD was taking 40 minute showers and damaging the walls of our bathroom. If she's in there more than 20 minutes, we start asking her what's she doing. We only have one bathroom on the main level so she can't just stay in there as long as she wants. In her case, we suspect she was using way too much shampoo and taking a long time to rinse it out.

I like to soak in the tub with my tablet and watch netflix movies. But we have 2 bathrooms and I pay for everything... if skids were taking that long I would kick them out.

SS used to take hour long showers. *shudder* I set a timer and start banging on the door after 10 mins telling him to get out.

Taking acid and playing with bubbles is my guess! lol

Except for the SD is not doing any chores and other people are cleaning up after her, pre-teen and teens spend lots of time in the bathroom. My poor father had one bathroom in the house years ago and two teenage daughters.

In my current residence of 25 plus years, we have bathrooms a plenty. And yes my just turned 15yr old (the last one still living at home) spends hours crossed between her dressing room and her bathroom. Shaving legs, pits, mani and pedi, washing and drying hair, doing her skincare routine followed by (depending on time od day) her make-up routine, trying different hair styles, choosing what outfit to wear the next day and running in for a look-see on how it looks on and all together....oh my, there's just so much to being a girl

I think your focus needs to be on consideration for others and importance of sharing in household needs and responsibilities. First up, chores. Except for a quick pee, no bathroom time until the chores she's assigned are finished. Next up, include cleaning the kids bathroom on her chore agenda. As it's the only one with a tub and you need a tub, make it her responsibility to clean it so it's ready for your use. You go bath and soak after dinner while whoever's evening it is to do dining and kitchen clean-up does that part.

Come 8pm in evening, her chores are done, your bath/soak is done, who cares if the kid spends to 10p in the bathroom. Or allow her to use your bathroom while you use hers. Set up an area in her bedroom for doing the girlie things she might be doing in the bathroom (a vanity area with plug-ins for hair dryers and what not). You have physical needs that require bathing/soaking. She has the only bath tub. Sit down with your DH, figure out how it's all going to be (including mandatory chores) and implement it. If he or she squeals, remind them life could be worse. There could only be one bathroom in the entire house. The first time your DH had to either pee behind a tree or manage his daughter, you bet he'd be managing his daughter.

SS10 has started taking an hour long showers. I started timing him. When he's not out after at max 30 minutes (which I think is still too long for a boy to take a shower) I make DH go into the shower and fuss at him. DH statles him every time.

I know kids who masturbate since the age of 6. That sounds disgusting, but that's a fact of life.