Do your kids bathe every day?

[Anonymous]

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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.

Oh and to the PP who thinks this is imaginary based on parental emotional abuse — not for me. I can smell myself.

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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.

We don't care. I mean, maybe that one weird poster does. But no one else.

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Yes, why would anyone else care? They asked a question, that’s why that poster was quoted and not you.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, why would anyone else care? They asked a question, that’s why that poster was quoted and not you.

I thought it was important to point out the idiocy of the PP who said kids don’t train for 3 hours in gymnastics. Obviously that PP (idiot) doesn’t have a kid on a gymnastics team.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, why would anyone else care? They asked a question, that’s why that poster was quoted and not you.

I thought it was important to point out the idiocy of the PP who said kids don’t train for 3 hours in gymnastics. Obviously that PP (idiot) doesn’t have a kid on a gymnastics team.

I would never allow my five year old to train for three hours at gymnastics. That is the idiocy. It is not good for their bodies, but then most gymnastics places don’t care about that.

[Anonymous]

4 and 2 year old generally take baths every other day unless they got especially sweaty, dirty that day. On the days they don’t take actual baths, we still wash their faces, hands, and feet before bed so they still step in the tub briefly for that. In the fall 4 year old will be in preschool and then we’ll probably switch to daily baths for him.

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

THIS! Even if the kid isn't dirty or smelly, you can tell.

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

THIS! Even if the kid isn't dirty or smelly, you can tell.

12 and 9 is very different from what OP asked - 4 and 6. They are starting to smell at that age.

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

THIS! Even if the kid isn't dirty or smelly, you can tell.

Correction, you THINK you can tell. If they aren't dirty or stinky, it's just not logical that you can tell. Do you have super bath sensing powers that no one else has?

[Anonymous]

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

THIS! Even if the kid isn't dirty or smelly, you can tell.

Correction, you THINK you can tell. If they aren't dirty or stinky, it's just not logical that you can tell. Do you have super bath sensing powers that no one else has?

Insanity. I’m 42 and have not showered since Saturday night and I do not smell. I did not exercise yesterday and I wear deodorant and clean clothes. My family would tell me. You all either need to seriously evaluate your diets or chill out. I cant even imagine stinking to high heaven or, worse, imagining that I did all the time.

[Anonymous]

Unless there is a reason not to, we do every day (4yo twins). It has been a nightly routine since they were about 6 mo. Even when we have something going on in the evening like a family event right before bed, we will usually do a quick shower earlier in the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. My oldest is 10 and will start every day this school year. My younger 2 take baths probably 3x a week.

What in the hot hoagie hell is this??? 10 and doesn't bathe daily???

[Anonymous]

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

THIS! Even if the kid isn't dirty or smelly, you can tell.

Correction, you THINK you can tell. If they aren't dirty or stinky, it's just not logical that you can tell. Do you have super bath sensing powers that no one else has?

Insanity. I’m 42 and have not showered since Saturday night and I do not smell. I did not exercise yesterday and I wear deodorant and clean clothes. My family would tell me. You all either need to seriously evaluate your diets or chill out. I cant even imagine stinking to high heaven or, worse, imagining that I did all the time.

To each their own, but seriously it's Monday and you haven't showered since Saturday?? That's gross and I'm sorry your family has done you a disservice and not told you to shower. I hardly ever smell or sweat (unless exercising or outdoors for extended periods), but I still shower daily, use deodorant and wear clean clothes. I think it's more than just do I smell, so I need a shower. Good hygiene and overall health habits.

[Anonymous]

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

THIS! Even if the kid isn't dirty or smelly, you can tell.

Not dirty, not smelly...what's your tipoff?
Genuinely curious...