stupid hall shower question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You wear flip flops in the shower. You towel dry after the shower. The tiny bit of water on the soles air drys quickly and with each step. It’s not a problem.

NP. This, above, is right.

The hall floors just aren't slick with water from showers. Also, to the OP, my DC's experience so far has been that students in the dorm take showers at ALL kinds of random times of day and night, so it's not like the halls are always awash in shower water in the mornings or evenings after masses of kids have showered at practically the same time. The shower use gets pretty spread out.

And posters on this thread being dismissive about shower shoes are simply dumb. Encourage your college kids to wear them and explain WHY. Yes, people really do pick up plantar warts and athlete's foot (which can actually be a stubborn, nasty infection, not a joke at all) in communal showers. Damn, some parents on DCUM think it's somehow "helicoptering" to talk about this stuff with their college-bound or college student kids. Nope, it's called sharing what you as an adult know, with your kid who has little life experience yet. But on DCUM, God forbid any parent should give one iota of advice about communal living to a kid who's never had to share a bedroom or bathroom with anyone but family.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There will be much more unhygienic experiences your child will have in college. Don’t even waste time thinking about this one.

This made me laugh out loud!

[Anonymous]

Make sure the flip flops are not the kinds that are slippery on a wet floor. You want flip flops with se heft and a good grip.

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I believe that a majority of DCUM posters are parents of primary school kids, and as everyone posts on every forum, they come on teenage forums and excoriate parents of older kids whenever there's a whiff of, you know, actual parenting. They are joined by sad older people who were neglected as teens and think everyone should go through what they had to go through.

Apparently in their eyes once you're in secondary school, you're on your own, kid Make your own mistakes. Get your own warts. Watching porn? It's what kids do nowadays! Latchkey: yep, and make dinner for the fam too! Get a job with the longest amount of hours, drive long distances, write your college apps without any outside advice even when it's free and ethical, only take the SAT once and don't prep for it, because that's how you stick it to the man. Sometimes it sounds like deliberate sabotage...

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Anonymous wrote:NP here. Thanks. Neither my husband nor I ever experienced US college communal living. Sounds gross. This country is so rich, why on earth are dorms so uncomfortable and weird?
Oxford has a lot of private rooms and ensuite baths.

It's so funny when I hear Europeans say this. College in the US is different. It's an incredibly social and fun and crazy and interesting experience and pretty one of a kind. All of my children went to schools where they could have been put in a single room. NONE of them wanted this and would have been pretty crushed if they were put in one. Being social and living together is part of the fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will be much more unhygienic experiences your child will have in college. Don’t even waste time thinking about this one.

This made me laugh out loud!

Me too....OP, you are over thinking this in a big way and I hope you are only doing this here on an anonymous board and not with your social circle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here. Thanks. Neither my husband nor I ever experienced US college communal living. Sounds gross. This country is so rich, why on earth are dorms so uncomfortable and weird?
Oxford has a lot of private rooms and ensuite baths.

So send your child there

This is the answer here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here. Thanks. Neither my husband nor I ever experienced US college communal living. Sounds gross. This country is so rich, why on earth are dorms so uncomfortable and weird?
Oxford has a lot of private rooms and ensuite baths.

It's so funny when I hear Europeans say this. College in the US is different. It's an incredibly social and fun and crazy and interesting experience and pretty one of a kind. All of my children went to schools where they could have been put in a single room. NONE of them wanted this and would have been pretty crushed if they were put in one. Being social and living together is part of the fun.

Yes, it's hilarious to have extraverted, social children and not understand that other families are introverted and private. Also, it's interesting that the USA is the foremost country in the world to respects the individual and value personal space, and really insist on that in preschool and K-12. But all this goes out of the window when older kids travel together for team sports or Model UN or whatnot, when they're two to a bed. Non-Americans would be scandalized. It's really weird after years of being told not to get too close to your classmate! And then in college you're supposed to use Soviet style shower blocks? What the actual heck?

At least admit that the USA has very conflicting lifestyles for different age groups, but since it's "tradition", few notice the discrepancies. Also, the winner here is American colleges, fleecing the rubes to the tune of $50K+ a year, and getting away with prison quarters...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here. Thanks. Neither my husband nor I ever experienced US college communal living. Sounds gross. This country is so rich, why on earth are dorms so uncomfortable and weird?
Oxford has a lot of private rooms and ensuite baths.

It's so funny when I hear Europeans say this. College in the US is different. It's an incredibly social and fun and crazy and interesting experience and pretty one of a kind. All of my children went to schools where they could have been put in a single room. NONE of them wanted this and would have been pretty crushed if they were put in one. Being social and living together is part of the fun.

I totally wanted a single room when I was in college and I was distressed that I didn't have one, not least because my freshman roommate was a total dud.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are in for a long, long year if this is the type of stuff you are worrying about.

Not really. My kids have had three rounds of plantar’s warts. Ever hold a kid down while a plastic surgeon tries to cut out an unexpectedly deep colony of warts under a topical anesthetia? You don’t

Wrong doctor. A podiatrist is the correct doctor. IME, they inject something into the wart and your body takes care of the rest.

Wrong opinion. Severe recalcitrant plantar warts need surgical extraction plus you
must get the entire colony (difficult to assess the bleeding) or tge colony just rebuilds itself. So you need a nurse practitioner there sucking if the blood). Most podiatrists I’ve been too don’t have a nurse practitioner to do tgat (and their offices aren’t sterile because of the nail cuttings).. Go read “treatment of Plantar Warts” in wiki. What you are describing is stage 2 treatment after stage 1 topicals didn’t work. DD was beyond stage 4 and needed a good surgeon. She was on crutches work weeks after. A podiatrist is not an MD. btw. My DW and I were there holding DD’s hand throughout the procedure. If I could do it over both we and the plastic surgeon agreed we would have done it under general anesthesia in a hospital. It was that painful to our DD. She screamed for -5 minutes throughout the procedure.

[Anonymous]

Having gone to college and had a communal hall bath, I have no idea. It isn’t something to worry about. I cannot remember it being an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many of you so mean? Even if it was an incredibly absurd question (it isn't). That gives you the right to ridicule a person asking for help? What goes through your mind when you type out your response-- if it makes a stranger's day a little worse, it was all worth it?

I'll take a mom who is concerned about something trivial over people actively making the world a worse place any day.

+1
Please report anyone trying to derail the thread by being an ahole.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are so many of you so mean? Even if it was an incredibly absurd question (it isn't). That gives you the right to ridicule a person asking for help? What goes through your mind when you type out your response-- if it makes a stranger's day a little worse, it was all worth it?

I'll take a mom who is concerned about something trivial over people actively making the world a worse place any day.

+1
Please report anyone trying to derail the thread by being an ahole.

Are you serious? The title of the question is literally "stupid hall shower question"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

And posters on this thread being dismissive about shower shoes are simply dumb. Encourage your college kids to wear them and explain WHY. Yes, people really do pick up plantar warts and athlete's foot (which can actually be a stubborn, nasty infection, not a joke at all) in communal showers. Damn, some parents on DCUM think it's somehow "helicoptering" to talk about this stuff with their college-bound or college student kids. Nope, it's called sharing what you as an adult know, with your kid who has little life experience yet. But on DCUM, God forbid any parent should give one iota of advice about communal living to a kid who's never had to share a bedroom or bathroom with anyone but family.

Most of us have imparted that knowledge over the last 18 years and don't have to cram basic hygiene at the last minute. Yes, there are things to teach at the last minute but wearing flip flops to a communal shower is not one. Most of our kids have been at pools, gyms or sleepaway camps and have heard this before.

Love the 2nd PP's privileged arrogance. "Most of our kids" have attended expensive sleepaway camps or belong to pools, duh!

My kid finished swim lessons at at 6 (at the DPR pool). No pool showering since then. Forgive him if he forgot in the ensuing 12 years what I told him in 1st grade about fungal infections. It's not really dinner conversation so it hasn't come up since

Exactly. My 14 and 16 yo kids have never taken a shower in a communal space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

And posters on this thread being dismissive about shower shoes are simply dumb. Encourage your college kids to wear them and explain WHY. Yes, people really do pick up plantar warts and athlete's foot (which can actually be a stubborn, nasty infection, not a joke at all) in communal showers. Damn, some parents on DCUM think it's somehow "helicoptering" to talk about this stuff with their college-bound or college student kids. Nope, it's called sharing what you as an adult know, with your kid who has little life experience yet. But on DCUM, God forbid any parent should give one iota of advice about communal living to a kid who's never had to share a bedroom or bathroom with anyone but family.

Most of us have imparted that knowledge over the last 18 years and don't have to cram basic hygiene at the last minute. Yes, there are things to teach at the last minute but wearing flip flops to a communal shower is not one. Most of our kids have been at pools, gyms or sleepaway camps and have heard this before.

Love the 2nd PP's privileged arrogance. "Most of our kids" have attended expensive sleepaway camps or belong to pools, duh!

My kid finished swim lessons at at 6 (at the DPR pool). No pool showering since then. Forgive him if he forgot in the ensuing 12 years what I told him in 1st grade about fungal infections. It's not really dinner conversation so it hasn't come up since

Exactly. My 14 and 16 yo kids have never taken a shower in a communal space.

So how are your privileged kids going to shower in college? Are you just going to buy them a house?