How often do your kids shower?
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Anonymous
| DD is 9 and showers every day. She has done for over almost 2 years. It’s actually easier because it’s part of the routine every single night and there’s no arguing about even she last had one etc. it’s like brushing teeth. She swims and on Sundays she swims til 4 and just showers at the pool and puts Jammie’s on. |
Anonymous
| When I discovered what my tub faucet could do, taking too many baths and showers became a problem. Pro-tip: want them to shower? Install a hand held massage showerhead! |
Anonymous
Lazy and your stupid argument doesn’t disguise it. Bodily autonomy? So, your kids decide if they brush teeth, go to school, go to the doctor, wear clothes, do drugs all in their own without you caring either way? |
Anonymous
I am the before the last meal/dinner in pj’s poster. It doesn’t feel like I am forcing anything. For my kids routine is really powerful and this has just always been the routine. If a kid has a reason for not wanting to shower then, and that happens, most recently it was a kid who was planning to go back out to shoot hoops after dinner, then we do something different. If my kid had some body autonomy related reason then he would tell me and we problem solve. The closest was when one kid had a virtual class in the evening with cute girls and wanted to have dry hair for said cute girls and that seemed reasonable to me so I just asked him what his plan was and he said he’d shower after class. I should add that one kid has severe pollen allergies, so washing pollen out of his hair is a routine we started very young for good reason. Also DH has a job where he is exposed to disgusting stuff so we’ve had the routine of “Daddy showers when he gets home, and we don’t hug him till he does” since birth. |
Anonymous
| Other kids (and teachers) will notice they smell before they notice themselves. You don’t want conversations happening behind your kid’s back. Start the routine of daily shower and deodorant earlier rather than later. |
Anonymous
Seriously. Teach your kids to take care of their bodies. Hygiene, eating habits, exercise -- they have to learn all of these so they feel pride in their body and what it can do, and then body autonomy comes more easily. |
Anonymous
| Twice a day in the summer (morning and night). Once a day otherwise. |
Anonymous
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Twin 16y olds.
One showers every morning and never has to be reminded. Will sometimes shower twice if he had sports practice and got really hot. One has to be told to shower every day. It is a nonnegotiable demand. He is not going to be "the stinky kid" and we will care until he does. Plus, his hair get soooooo greasy and gross after about 24 hrs. After 8y or so, daily showering was mandatory in our house. |
Anonymous
| Everyday. They play sports. |
Anonymous
| Daily for my 11 year old. Every morning, just like the adults. |
Anonymous
| You all (parents) are the ones with greasy hair on zoom calls these days, right? Just because we aren’t in the same location doesn’t mean we can’t tell you are dirty. We can. Kids should be showering every day, with an exception here or there. |
Anonymous
| Every day (same as me). I bathed them every night if their young lives so it’s well engrained in their lives like brushing their teeth twice a day. They’ve actually never fought us on it or even questioned it! |
Anonymous
| Oh goody! There hasn’t been a thread on this in several hours at least. |
Anonymous
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DD 14- every night
DS 16 morning and night. Morning b/c it wakes him up and night to wash off the funk of the day, LOL |
Anonymous
| Pretty much every day |