Do your kids bathe every day?

[Anonymous]

^^ ok, thanks. This is what I suspected. You won’t smell for a few days at least, and your kids won’t for longer than that. Lots of fear on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a woman and haven’t worked out and are smelly and absolutely need a shower after one day, what is going on? Do you sweat a lot? Do you eat a ton of junk food? Where is the smell coming from? I am fascinated by people who feel or are in fact filthy after about 16 hours without exercise.

Yes, I do tend to sweat more and my hair gets greasy. I do believe there are variations with people, not everyone smells but I’m not so lucky. What I eat doesn’t matter, I think it’s just my body chemistry. My kids prepuberty did not bathe every day because they didn’t get stinky dirty and have more sensitive skin.

[Anonymous]

^^your hair is greasy from overwashing. Try shampooing 3 times a week. It will stop making all that grease. Even if you shower, don’t wash your hair. This really works and your hair will look much better!

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a woman and haven’t worked out and are smelly and absolutely need a shower after one day, what is going on? Do you sweat a lot? Do you eat a ton of junk food? Where is the smell coming from? I am fascinated by people who feel or are in fact filthy after about 16 hours without exercise.

I'd imagine that armpits and genital/anal area would probably be pretty ripe without regular cleaning. I hope the non-daily bathers at least do a wh*res bath.

What a gross thing to call it, but yeah, this is what I do. I think I got it from my mom, who grew up poor, without a running shower. I shower about 5x/week but will do a "wipe down" the other days-- a washcloth with soap or a cleansing wipe (more cleanser than a baby wipe), concentrating on armpits, nether regions and face (uh, not in that order). Morning and night on those days. Only on days I'm not really sweating, though.

[Anonymous]

Yes, our 12 and 9yo bathe daily. You can definitely tell the kids who don’t when we do carpool or play date.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a woman and haven’t worked out and are smelly and absolutely need a shower after one day, what is going on? Do you sweat a lot? Do you eat a ton of junk food? Where is the smell coming from? I am fascinated by people who feel or are in fact filthy after about 16 hours without exercise.

I'd imagine that armpits and genital/anal area would probably be pretty ripe without regular cleaning. I hope the non-daily bathers at least do a wh*res bath.

PP here. I’m not asking about imagining. Do you actually reek after one day without vigorous exercise? I don’t at all. What do you attribute the dire need to wash after one day? Are you sweating a lot? Is it hormonal? dietary? Do you not wear deodorant or wipe?I’m really trying to understand this obsession with filth because neither I nor my kids stink to high heaven by nighttime. Is it just the fear of smelling or do people actually stink after one day?

I attribute it to their parents shaming them as children for being "dirty" "filthy" "gross" or "disgusting" if they didn't have a daily bath. The same exact emotional abuse they are perpetrating on their children. I'll bet most of them have never tried skipping a day and have no idea how gross they do/do not smell. A lot of it is biology. I have a friend whose hair is so greasy that she can wash it in the morning and it will be super greasy by dinner. It would take 4-5 days for my hair to be as greasy as hers is in 12 hours. Not exaggerating.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a woman and haven’t worked out and are smelly and absolutely need a shower after one day, what is going on? Do you sweat a lot? Do you eat a ton of junk food? Where is the smell coming from? I am fascinated by people who feel or are in fact filthy after about 16 hours without exercise.

I'd imagine that armpits and genital/anal area would probably be pretty ripe without regular cleaning. I hope the non-daily bathers at least do a wh*res bath.

LOL. OMG I am dying. +1,000!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I try to do every night but if my younger ones fall asleep before bath time(like in the car), I don’t wake them up to give them one. I would never take them to an activity or class though if they hadn’t been bathed within the last 24 hours. My kids play outside nearly all day sweating and getting dirty, so if they have gymnastics in the afternoon I give them baths right before we go. My five year old obviously doesn’t have body odor but they definitely have a smell when they’ve been playing outside all day.

So you bathe your kids before exercise? Huh.

Yes, because I don’t want my kid smelling gross or having dirty feet when they have coaches touching them and picking them up. My 5 year old trains 3 hours per day at gymnastics so usually she falls asleep on the way home so I’d also rather not have her be even more dirty from being outside all day plus gymnastics.

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Anonymous wrote:I try to do every night but if my younger ones fall asleep before bath time(like in the car), I don’t wake them up to give them one. I would never take them to an activity or class though if they hadn’t been bathed within the last 24 hours. My kids play outside nearly all day sweating and getting dirty, so if they have gymnastics in the afternoon I give them baths right before we go. My five year old obviously doesn’t have body odor but they definitely have a smell when they’ve been playing outside all day.

So you bathe your kids before exercise? Huh.

Yes, because I don’t want my kid smelling gross or having dirty feet when they have coaches touching them and picking them up. My 5 year old trains 3 hours per day at gymnastics so usually she falls asleep on the way home so I’d also rather not have her be even more dirty from being outside all day plus gymnastics.

OMG. You have much bigger problems than being super anal about bathing. And you realize they will be sweaty within ten minutes? Maybe you should stand on the side of the mat and wipe her every few minutes during her three hour workout at age 5.

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Anonymous wrote:I try to do every night but if my younger ones fall asleep before bath time(like in the car), I don’t wake them up to give them one. I would never take them to an activity or class though if they hadn’t been bathed within the last 24 hours. My kids play outside nearly all day sweating and getting dirty, so if they have gymnastics in the afternoon I give them baths right before we go. My five year old obviously doesn’t have body odor but they definitely have a smell when they’ve been playing outside all day.

So you bathe your kids before exercise? Huh.

Yes, because I don’t want my kid smelling gross or having dirty feet when they have coaches touching them and picking them up. My 5 year old trains 3 hours per day at gymnastics so usually she falls asleep on the way home so I’d also rather not have her be even more dirty from being outside all day plus gymnastics.

OMG. You have much bigger problems than being super anal about bathing. And you realize they will be sweaty within ten minutes? Maybe you should stand on the side of the mat and wipe her every few minutes during her three hour workout at age 5.

I’m certainly not anal about bathing.. I said I don’t always bathe every night but wouldn’t send my kid to an activity smelling like sweat and grass, with sand and dirt under their fingernails and toenails(which is how they look after playing outside all day) how is that anal? And yes, my kid is on Pre-Team with many other kids her age and they have a gymnastics camp. In the fall it will be just two nights for three hours a night. I don’t care if they are sweating at an activity, that’s usually what happens when you’re active, I’m just not sending them visibly dirty and honestly it’s hard to get a leotard on a sweaty,dirty kid so the bath solves that.

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Anonymous wrote:I try to do every night but if my younger ones fall asleep before bath time(like in the car), I don’t wake them up to give them one. I would never take them to an activity or class though if they hadn’t been bathed within the last 24 hours. My kids play outside nearly all day sweating and getting dirty, so if they have gymnastics in the afternoon I give them baths right before we go. My five year old obviously doesn’t have body odor but they definitely have a smell when they’ve been playing outside all day.

So you bathe your kids before exercise? Huh.

Yes, because I don’t want my kid smelling gross or having dirty feet when they have coaches touching them and picking them up. My 5 year old trains 3 hours per day at gymnastics so usually she falls asleep on the way home so I’d also rather not have her be even more dirty from being outside all day plus gymnastics.

OMG. You have much bigger problems than being super anal about bathing. And you realize they will be sweaty within ten minutes? Maybe you should stand on the side of the mat and wipe her every few minutes during her three hour workout at age 5.

I’m certainly not anal about bathing.. I said I don’t always bathe every night but wouldn’t send my kid to an activity smelling like sweat and grass, with sand and dirt under their fingernails and toenails(which is how they look after playing outside all day) how is that anal? And yes, my kid is on Pre-Team with many other kids her age and they have a gymnastics camp. In the fall it will be just two nights for three hours a night. I don’t care if they are sweating at an activity, that’s usually what happens when you’re active, I’m just not sending them visibly dirty and honestly it’s hard to get a leotard on a sweaty,dirty kid so the bath solves that.

No 5 year old can focus or should trained for three hours at a time! If it’s “camp” that’s one thing and they aren’t training for three solid hours.

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Anonymous wrote:I try to do every night but if my younger ones fall asleep before bath time(like in the car), I don’t wake them up to give them one. I would never take them to an activity or class though if they hadn’t been bathed within the last 24 hours. My kids play outside nearly all day sweating and getting dirty, so if they have gymnastics in the afternoon I give them baths right before we go. My five year old obviously doesn’t have body odor but they definitely have a smell when they’ve been playing outside all day.

So you bathe your kids before exercise? Huh.

Yes, because I don’t want my kid smelling gross or having dirty feet when they have coaches touching them and picking them up. My 5 year old trains 3 hours per day at gymnastics so usually she falls asleep on the way home so I’d also rather not have her be even more dirty from being outside all day plus gymnastics.

OMG. You have much bigger problems than being super anal about bathing. And you realize they will be sweaty within ten minutes? Maybe you should stand on the side of the mat and wipe her every few minutes during her three hour workout at age 5.

I’m certainly not anal about bathing.. I said I don’t always bathe every night but wouldn’t send my kid to an activity smelling like sweat and grass, with sand and dirt under their fingernails and toenails(which is how they look after playing outside all day) how is that anal? And yes, my kid is on Pre-Team with many other kids her age and they have a gymnastics camp. In the fall it will be just two nights for three hours a night. I don’t care if they are sweating at an activity, that’s usually what happens when you’re active, I’m just not sending them visibly dirty and honestly it’s hard to get a leotard on a sweaty,dirty kid so the bath solves that.

No 5 year old can focus or should trained for three hours at a time! If it’s “camp” that’s one thing and they aren’t training for three solid hours.

Do you even know what pre team is? My daughter was invited to pre team but we declined. But for her it only would have been 3 hrs a week (two 90 minute sessions). PP, did you mean 3 fours in one session, or 3 total for the week?

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Anonymous wrote:I try to do every night but if my younger ones fall asleep before bath time(like in the car), I don’t wake them up to give them one. I would never take them to an activity or class though if they hadn’t been bathed within the last 24 hours. My kids play outside nearly all day sweating and getting dirty, so if they have gymnastics in the afternoon I give them baths right before we go. My five year old obviously doesn’t have body odor but they definitely have a smell when they’ve been playing outside all day.

So you bathe your kids before exercise? Huh.

Yes, because I don’t want my kid smelling gross or having dirty feet when they have coaches touching them and picking them up. My 5 year old trains 3 hours per day at gymnastics so usually she falls asleep on the way home so I’d also rather not have her be even more dirty from being outside all day plus gymnastics.

OMG. You have much bigger problems than being super anal about bathing. And you realize they will be sweaty within ten minutes? Maybe you should stand on the side of the mat and wipe her every few minutes during her three hour workout at age 5.

I’m certainly not anal about bathing.. I said I don’t always bathe every night but wouldn’t send my kid to an activity smelling like sweat and grass, with sand and dirt under their fingernails and toenails(which is how they look after playing outside all day) how is that anal? And yes, my kid is on Pre-Team with many other kids her age and they have a gymnastics camp. In the fall it will be just two nights for three hours a night. I don’t care if they are sweating at an activity, that’s usually what happens when you’re active, I’m just not sending them visibly dirty and honestly it’s hard to get a leotard on a sweaty,dirty kid so the bath solves that.

No 5 year old can focus or should trained for three hours at a time! If it’s “camp” that’s one thing and they aren’t training for three solid hours.

Do you even know what pre team is? My daughter was invited to pre team but we declined. But for her it only would have been 3 hrs a week (two 90 minute sessions). PP, did you mean 3 fours in one session, or 3 total for the week?

She was doing 1.5 hours twice per week in the (pre)pre-team class she took before this. She moved up to this one in June. She trains in two 3 hour sessions, so six hours per week. It is not just constant conditioning , there is a 15 minute break after the first 1.5 hours where they eat a snack and talk to their friends, they have tons of fun and my daughter is always excited to go back, she convinced us to let her do Pre-Team. She is very focused and loves gymnastics. The whole class is 5-6 years old. My daughter is the youngest with a fall birthday but they are all rising Kindergarteners or 1st graders.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m always fascinated by the “not-every-day” bathers. We always did every day from when they were sitting up (supervised, of course.)
For us, it was less about cleanliness/stickiness and more about the all-important bedtime routine. Taking the bath was a really important part of wind down time. Because it was such an ingrained thing, we never got the resistance I hear about from PPs or some of my relatives.
It’s really a shame in the case of one kid I know, who at age six, after a day of running around is definitely in need of a bath, but it has now become a battle royale in their house, as the parent (who is not-so-great in many ways) just doesn’t want to put in the effort, so the kid... smells. I’m a bit worried for when he goes back to school this fall.
PPs—-I’m not saying *your* kids smell. I don’t know them!
Like I said, for us is was every day and it was because it was part of the routine bath—>books—>bed.

Yes, to all of this. In fact DD (now 6) has such a strong association between bath and bedtime that she didn’t go to sleep when we had an evening babysitter because the babysitter didn’t bathe her (so she laid awake in her room until we came home to give her a bath). I’m grateful for it because she absolutely needs a bath to remove bug spray and sunscreen in the summer, and when she’s really active she gets sweaty and that stinks. I’m in no way a perfect mom, and DD fights/pushes boundaries on countless issues, but bathtime is not one of them.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are a woman and haven’t worked out and are smelly and absolutely need a shower after one day, what is going on? Do you sweat a lot? Do you eat a ton of junk food? Where is the smell coming from? I am fascinated by people who feel or are in fact filthy after about 16 hours without exercise.

For me, the armpits and groin area would smell if I skipped a bath/shower daily. In a pinch I can wash up with a washcloth and soap but in the time it takes to do that I could take a quick shower. If we had a bidet I might be able to get away with e/o day showers in the winter as my armpits are less likely to sweat.