My kid hasn't taken a bath since last Sunday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG, mine bath twice a day. It seems quite necessary since they're active.

Do you put clean clothes on her daily?

+1 I have an 18 month old who loves outside and putting food in her hair. She gets a bath and hairwash every morning and a "relaxing" bath before bed every night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bathe my kids every single night. I was a kindergarten teacher prior to being a SAHM and all the teachers used to talk about the parents of the kids who smelled like puppies.

oooooohhhh now I'm going to run and change what I do because a bunch of people I don't know talk about me behind my back. Sorry, but I'm not a 12 year old girl anymore. I don't really care what strangers say about me.

You are a little too defensive to pretend that you don't care, PP. I think we all see thru you.

[Anonymous]

This is us in the winter. In the summer we have to do baths almost every day because of sunscreen/bug spray. But even then we sometimes skip a day...

[Anonymous]

I figure the very least I can do as a parent is to make sure my kids are clean. Sorry, DCUM, I cannot get on board with this. I know little kids who smell like the inside of my grandmother's purse and I do judge the parents. Kids smell musty when they haven't been bathed. Maybe the parents can't smell it but the rest of us do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is us in the winter. In the summer we have to do baths almost every day because of sunscreen/bug spray. But even then we sometimes skip a day...

Forgot about this - another reason for daily bath. OP probably doesn't bother with sunscreen either.

[Anonymous]

Nanny here and I wouldn't work for a mother who refused to bathe her children but once a week. I would be embarrassed to take the children out.

[Anonymous]

Do your kids not play outside? Mine get so dirty.

[Anonymous]

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I'm not sure if some of you aren't making this up, it's so shocking to me.

I'm the weekly poster, and sometimes we're busy on Sunday so we push it a day or two. Should we do it a bit more? Probably. Is is a big deal? Not at all. Even the American Academy of Dermatology says once a week is fine for kids aged 6-11 (https://www.aad.org/public/skin-hair-nails/skin-care/child-bathing).

If you want to be shocked, here are some things that I think are more important than exceeding the recommended bathing frequency:
"Nationwide, 70 percent to 90 percent of parents hit or slap their children" - http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2014/04/29/spanking-may-be-more-common-than-parents-admit
About a third of children drink more than 2 sodas or similar drinks a day. - http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/26/health/sugary-drinks-children-cdc-study/
Most low income kids don't have books in their home - http://bookharvestnc.org/why-books/statistics/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here and I wouldn't work for a mother who refused to bathe her children but once a week. I would be embarrassed to take the children out.

It's not a matter of refusing to do it. It's about having other things to do. If you're a nanny, bathe them yourself. The fact that you couldn't think of that solution yourself and would rather quit makes me somehow think the parents lucked out on that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here and I wouldn't work for a mother who refused to bathe her children but once a week. I would be embarrassed to take the children out.

are you posting from work or nobody wanted to hire you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bathe my kids every single night. I was a kindergarten teacher prior to being a SAHM and all the teachers used to talk about the parents of the kids who smelled like puppies.

oooooohhhh now I'm going to run and change what I do because a bunch of people I don't know talk about me behind my back. Sorry, but I'm not a 12 year old girl anymore. I don't really care what strangers say about me.

You are a little too defensive to pretend that you don't care, PP. I think we all see thru you.

Nope, you're wrong on that. I commented because you basically say you bathe your kids every single night because you used to be a teacher and you and all the teachers would talk about the parents. As if that's some magic reason to bathe your kids every night. The argument seemed so shallow and ridiculous, I felt I had to point it out in a humorous way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here and I wouldn't work for a mother who refused to bathe her children but once a week. I would be embarrassed to take the children out.

It's not a matter of refusing to do it. It's about having other things to do. If you're a nanny, bathe them yourself. The fact that you couldn't think of that solution yourself and would rather quit makes me somehow think the parents lucked out on that one.

Stop embarrassing yourself, PP. I assumed (wrongly as it seems) that a mother who refused to bathe her own children at night did so from a position other than just being lazy. Clearly I was wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bathe my kids every single night. I was a kindergarten teacher prior to being a SAHM and all the teachers used to talk about the parents of the kids who smelled like puppies.

oooooohhhh now I'm going to run and change what I do because a bunch of people I don't know talk about me behind my back. Sorry, but I'm not a 12 year old girl anymore. I don't really care what strangers say about me.

You are a little too defensive to pretend that you don't care, PP. I think we all see thru you.

Nope, you're wrong on that. I commented because you basically say you bathe your kids every single night because you used to be a teacher and you and all the teachers would talk about the parents. As if that's some magic reason to bathe your kids every night. The argument seemed so shallow and ridiculous, I felt I had to point it out in a humorous way.

Oh... you were trying to be humorous... NP here and it sounded defensive to be as well and not the least bit humorous. I give my kids a bath every night because they are dirty - not anything more magical, I'm afraid. I assume the teacher felt the same way. Dirty children smell bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bathe my kids every single night. I was a kindergarten teacher prior to being a SAHM and all the teachers used to talk about the parents of the kids who smelled like puppies.

oooooohhhh now I'm going to run and change what I do because a bunch of people I don't know talk about me behind my back. Sorry, but I'm not a 12 year old girl anymore. I don't really care what strangers say about me.

You are a little too defensive to pretend that you don't care, PP. I think we all see thru you.

Nope, you're wrong on that. I commented because you basically say you bathe your kids every single night because you used to be a teacher and you and all the teachers would talk about the parents. As if that's some magic reason to bathe your kids every night. The argument seemed so shallow and ridiculous, I felt I had to point it out in a humorous way.

Oh... you were trying to be humorous... NP here and it sounded defensive to be as well and not the least bit humorous. I give my kids a bath every night because they are dirty - not anything more magical, I'm afraid. I assume the teacher felt the same way. Dirty children smell bad.

perhaps it's just that your children.... smell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here and I wouldn't work for a mother who refused to bathe her children but once a week. I would be embarrassed to take the children out.

It's not a matter of refusing to do it. It's about having other things to do. If you're a nanny, bathe them yourself. The fact that you couldn't think of that solution yourself and would rather quit makes me somehow think the parents lucked out on that one.

Stop embarrassing yourself, PP. I assumed (wrongly as it seems) that a mother who refused to bathe her own children at night did so from a position other than just being lazy. Clearly I was wrong.

Are you a nanny from 1950? Lol. No fathers doing bathing. Just mothers.