This photo looks like it's from the 1920's or earlier when many people did not own a bathtub or have inside plumbing and just washed little kids in a barrel in the kitchen (I spend way too much time on ancestry.com...)
From Denny: Here are a few cute kid quotes to give you a grin for sure! And when you take a look at some of the time periods these quotes were written you will realize humanity has been dealing with the same parenting issues and parents growing personal development for centuries! :)
* The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. - Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
* Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. - Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688
* There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. - Frank A. Clark
* Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. - Red Skelton
* Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller