Be honest - how often do you bathe your kids?

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Anonymous wrote:

1. Sunscreen is non-negotiable ESPECIALLY if they have fair skin - ask your doctor.
2. The midday sun is most damaging to the skin. Vitamin D can be made with early morning or late afternoon exposure.
3. I trust you meant a shower AFTER the pool, to rinse off the chlorine which irritates skin and hair.

Please, for your children's sake, inform yourself better. Skin cancer 40 years from now is not a joke.

What a hoot. We don't use a doctor except in rare circumstances. And anyway, he is the last person I would trust to know what chemicals are in sunscreens these days or about kids true nutritional needs. New research is now showing that it is precisely the midday sun that we need MOST to produce a range of vitamin D in our bodies, although I do agree with popular wisdom that it is not healthy for children (or adults) to develop a sunburn - which is why sun exposure is limited.

I hope you are kidding

Nope, not kidding at all. Believe it or not, there are people out there who have radically different perspectives than you regarding health and well-being. No, this upper-middle class, graduate school-educated, gainfully employed, DC family does not (usually) use the pediatrician and does not use sunscreen. We also eat a diet and live a lifestyle that is probably *extremely* different from yours. My kids are hands down the healthiest I've ever encountered - much healthier than me or my spouse, even. OH, and just to bring it back around to the topic at hand, they get baths 2 or 3 times a week; occasionally more, occasionally less. On non-bath days, I do like to clean hands, face and feet (no anti-bacterial soap though) before bed.

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I think doctors are totally useless, too, but I don't tell anyone that....

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Break out the tin foil hats now.

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Anonymous wrote:Break out the tin foil hats now.

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I heart you. And you made my DH laugh.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are 4 and 5. They get baths once or twice a week - more if they wear bug spray or sunscreen or have visible dirt on them, but we haven't been out that much this summer. They don't stink. They wipe their butts with flushable wipes. They bathed more frequently (every day) back when we had a nanny, but honestly? They have have had fewer illnesses since we lost the nanny and dropped the frequent baths (knock on wood!) I'm not trying to justify their lack (to some) of "cleanliness" - I'm sure it's completely unrelated or coincidental - but regardless, my kids no longer have dry skin and their hair (especially my daughter's, which is really long) looks great. Once they hit puberty, however, they will probably have to bathe more because they WILL stink then!

I think it's hysterical that 'cleanliness' is in quotes, as if bathing only fakes cleanliness. When my kids bathe they are not only so-called clean, they are REALLY clean.

Laugh all you want, but I'd bet that you couldn't tell one way or another that my kids don't get bathed that much.

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bath every night. though I don't wash his hair every night.

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Hey- are you making fun of my tin foil hat?

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IMHO bathing is overrated anyway.

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Critical reasoning and the scientific method should be more pushed in schools than they are, to avoid the tin foil hat syndrome... Sigh.

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Anonymous wrote:IMHO bathing is overrated anyway.

What? please explain.

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That comment was posted by my husband, who walked by, saw the title, and posted trying to stir up some controversy without realizing there was plenty already.

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Anonymous wrote:Break out the tin foil hats now.

Yes, anyone who thinks even mildly differently from the pack is high suspicious. Highly suspicious. Actually, maybe you are the one who needs the tin foil hat, not what I think about it.

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I wonder if there is some correlation between how often people bathe their kids and how frequently they mop their kitchen floors?

I get the sense that some people just think kids should be scrubbed clean every single night, on principle. I bet they are the same people who mop that floor every night, too. They just aren't comfortable with the idea of even a little dirt.

Other people mop once or twice a week; and otherwise just mop up obvious spills which are a health hazard or an accident hazard. (bugs, slips and falls) But they are able to sleep at night knowing that there may be some grime on their kitchen floors; they'll get to it tomorrow.

I'm a mop the kitchen floor once or twice every week kind of person. You can argue with me all you want that my kitchen floor is dirty, a health hazard, etc., because I didn't just mop it, but it just doesn't bother me. I look at it -- it looks clean; there are no obvious spills on it; I do sweep it free of crumbs. I'm not going to deny that there must be some grime on the floor, but I'm able to live with that. Yes, even if my child is later going to play on the floor.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if there is some correlation between how often people bathe their kids and how frequently they mop their kitchen floors?

I get the sense that some people just think kids should be scrubbed clean every single night, on principle. I bet they are the same people who mop that floor every night, too. They just aren't comfortable with the idea of even a little dirt.

Other people mop once or twice a week; and otherwise just mop up obvious spills which are a health hazard or an accident hazard. (bugs, slips and falls) But they are able to sleep at night knowing that there may be some grime on their kitchen floors; they'll get to it tomorrow.

I'm a mop the kitchen floor once or twice every week kind of person. You can argue with me all you want that my kitchen floor is dirty, a health hazard, etc., because I didn't just mop it, but it just doesn't bother me. I look at it -- it looks clean; there are no obvious spills on it; I do sweep it free of crumbs. I'm not going to deny that there must be some grime on the floor, but I'm able to live with that. Yes, even if my child is later going to play on the floor.

"The same people who..." I love these posts. I never knew how easily it was to classify people into types based on seemingly random assortments of habits..

Actually, I bathe my kids almost every night but I wash my kitchen floor only once every couple of months. Can't IMAGINE having the time to mop it every night, or even twice a week. Anyone else JUST LIKE ME????? You know, the kind who bathe their kids every night, mop the kitchen floor every couple of months, support breastfeeding in public if done discreetly, prefer sleeping in to running, aren't sure what kind of idiot posted on the thread about UVA students? That kind? My kind? You out there?

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"The same people who..." I love these posts. I never knew how easily it was to classify people into types based on seemingly random assortments of habits..

Actually, I bathe my kids almost every night but I wash my kitchen floor only once every couple of months. Can't IMAGINE having the time to mop it every night, or even twice a week. Anyone else JUST LIKE ME????? You know, the kind who bathe their kids every night, mop the kitchen floor every couple of months, support breastfeeding in public if done discreetly, prefer sleeping in to running, aren't sure what kind of idiot posted on the thread about UVA students? That kind? My kind? You out there?

Yes, I'm with you.