Let teen sleep in clothes?

[Anonymous]

Just wait til college.
I remember wearing the same pair of shorts all finals week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OCDs and germaphobes on this thread are wild.

My roommate was OCD and when her boyfriend came home from work he would just on her bed and exclaim, "I've been on the metro"

This isn’t OCD, it’s basic hygiene. I cannot believe anyone could disagree. The kid is 13 and doesn’t know better- so you teach them. It’s not as if the kid is working a 16 hour factory shift, coming home and cooking for her family of 8, then collapses from exhaustion. This kid has an easy life and is probably laying around watching YouTube shorts and snap chatting for hours before bed. She can change her clothes.

That’s simply because you’re a narcissistic control freak, ma’am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OCDs and germaphobes on this thread are wild.

My roommate was OCD and when her boyfriend came home from work he would just on her bed and exclaim, "I've been on the metro"

Oh gross!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My entire family, including the teenage boys and husband, all change out of the day’s underwear before bed.

Very gross to wear underwear that has been on for 12 sweaty hours to bed.

But how do you know this about your teenage boys? I have teenagers and am not checking their underwear before bed and they are not announcing this. I will assume you see your husband do it because otherwise I don't know how you know that either.

[Anonymous]

Nope, but I never allowed street clothes on the bed. For my kids, it's always been the norm not to get under the covers with street clothes on. Also, my kids always showered or bathed before bed. I don't care if it's practical or not, it's how I was raised, how my husband was raised, and we did the same with our kids. They've never complained. When they are adults, they can do it however they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope, but I never allowed street clothes on the bed. For my kids, it's always been the norm not to get under the covers with street clothes on. Also, my kids always showered or bathed before bed. I don't care if it's practical or not, it's how I was raised, how my husband was raised, and we did the same with our kids. They've never complained. When they are adults, they can do it however they want.

Are you also raising them to spurn critical thinking, just because that’s apparently how you and your husband were raised?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OCDs and germaphobes on this thread are wild.

My roommate was OCD and when her boyfriend came home from work he would just on her bed and exclaim, "I've been on the metro"

This isn’t OCD, it’s basic hygiene. I cannot believe anyone could disagree. The kid is 13 and doesn’t know better- so you teach them. It’s not as if the kid is working a 16 hour factory shift, coming home and cooking for her family of 8, then collapses from exhaustion. This kid has an easy life and is probably laying around watching YouTube shorts and snap chatting for hours before bed. She can change her clothes.

That’s simply because you’re a narcissistic control freak, ma’am.

No, it’s because I’m not a lazy slob

[Anonymous]

I think it's kind of weird and doesn't sound very comfortable, but not a battle I would pick. We have dogs in bed so the idea that the beds would be some totally germ free space went out the window a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

Make them do their own sheets. They will quit wearing dirty clothes to bed then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OCDs and germaphobes on this thread are wild.

My roommate was OCD and when her boyfriend came home from work he would just on her bed and exclaim, "I've been on the metro"

This isn’t OCD, it’s basic hygiene. I cannot believe anyone could disagree. The kid is 13 and doesn’t know better- so you teach them. It’s not as if the kid is working a 16 hour factory shift, coming home and cooking for her family of 8, then collapses from exhaustion. This kid has an easy life and is probably laying around watching YouTube shorts and snap chatting for hours before bed. She can change her clothes.

That’s simply because you’re a narcissistic control freak, ma’am.

No, it’s because I’m not a lazy slob

You’re mentally lazy and a social slob.

[Anonymous]

Leave her be. School mornings are very early, especially for night owls. I'm a night owl in an early bird world. It's painful. Anything that makes it easier is welcome. If she showers after school or at night, she's good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nope, but I never allowed street clothes on the bed. For my kids, it's always been the norm not to get under the covers with street clothes on. Also, my kids always showered or bathed before bed. I don't care if it's practical or not, it's how I was raised, how my husband was raised, and we did the same with our kids. They've never complained. When they are adults, they can do it however they want.

Are you also raising them to spurn critical thinking, just because that’s apparently how you and your husband were raised?

Ah yes, of course. Nothing says ‘anti-critical-thinking’ like not wanting outside clothes in the sheets. Incredible analysis. Truly groundbreaking!

[Anonymous]

Oh wow, I am 50 and raised two kids and had no idea people cared about stuff like this. Apparently once clothes go outside they are foully polluted? This is more of a ritualistic belief than a scientific fact.

[Anonymous]

No, not the ones they’ve worn all day. If they want to put on clean day time clothes and sleep in those, I don’t care. They can wear them the next day, too. Just not the other way around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it's kind of weird and doesn't sound very comfortable, but not a battle I would pick. We have dogs in bed so the idea that the beds would be some totally germ free space went out the window a long time ago.

Being filthy is a life choice, and sometimes it is a package deal, as you observed.