Do your kids bathe every day?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am elementary school teacher and believe me your child's teacher know who baths every day and who doesn't! Summer and vacations in general are one thing -- but if tomorrow is a school day -- PLEASE shower!

+1. Preschool teacher here. Yes, we all know who bathes daily and who doesn’t.

-1. Also a preschool teacher and while yes some kids smell, that doesn’t mean the good smelling kids bathe daily. You really have no clue.

Another preschool/kindergarten teacher. We absolutely know. And we do judge parents who can’t be bothered to bathe their kids daily. It’s just gross.

Oh cmon. Do you go around sniffing out kids? One would think if you kept busy teaching and not judging, your classroom would be more effective.

Noticing that “puppy smell” isn’t judging - it is simply noticing. Do your job and send your kids to school clean.

[Anonymous]

Yes. My five, 2.5 and seven-month-old have been bathed ever single night of their lives.

[Anonymous]

22:44 Europeans who bathe every 3 or 4 days may not get sick but they stink to high heaven!

[Anonymous]

22:44 Europeans who bathe every 3 or 4 days may not get sick but they stink to high heaven!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am elementary school teacher and believe me your child's teacher know who baths every day and who doesn't! Summer and vacations in general are one thing -- but if tomorrow is a school day -- PLEASE shower!

+1. Preschool teacher here. Yes, we all know who bathes daily and who doesn’t.

-1. Also a preschool teacher and while yes some kids smell, that doesn’t mean the good smelling kids bathe daily. You really have no clue.

Another preschool/kindergarten teacher. We absolutely know. And we do judge parents who can’t be bothered to bathe their kids daily. It’s just gross.

I would never send my kids out of my house smelly and they don’t bathe every day. I seriously doubt this. You may be able to smell a kid that hasn’t bathed days on end. That’s a different story. But for someone who may skip a day or two, I just doubt this is the case from smell alone. Perhaps you see marker or something that didn’t get washed off. Otherwise, I think you are reaching. My four year old son didn’t bathe last night as we didn’t go anywhere all day. I called him over just now to test your theory, and yeah...he’s fresh.

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Kids that age don’t have the same BO as adults. You can’t tell if they’ve skipped a day. You may tell if they’ve skipped several.

[Anonymous]

Swimming is not bathing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am elementary school teacher and believe me your child's teacher know who baths every day and who doesn't! Summer and vacations in general are one thing -- but if tomorrow is a school day -- PLEASE shower!

+1. Preschool teacher here. Yes, we all know who bathes daily and who doesn’t.

-1. Also a preschool teacher and while yes some kids smell, that doesn’t mean the good smelling kids bathe daily. You really have no clue.

Another preschool/kindergarten teacher. We absolutely know. And we do judge parents who can’t be bothered to bathe their kids daily. It’s just gross.

You sound like a real peach.
Honestly find it hard to believe you are teachers those of you commenting here. If you think it’s so gross to skip a day of bathing, how do you handle the snot, picking noses, lice and general uncleanliness of preschool and kindergarten aged children? Kids do some disgusting things and bathing every other day is the least of them!

[Anonymous]

We parents shower every day. Our twins would bathe every day in the warm weather and roughly every other day in the cool weather. When they were 7.5, they started to bathe every night. It started because one had severe pollen allergies and we wanted to make sure that he was washing off the pollen before he went to bed. And then it became a routine and still continues.

[Anonymous]

every day and twice a day in summer

[Anonymous]

OP, our kids are same age as your and we probably bath them 5 out of 7 nights a week. And always if they've been to the pool or played hard outside (= bug spray and sunscreen)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Daily during the summer, probably 99% of the time in winter too--it's part of nightly routine and she's always loved it, and her eczema somehow seems to get a little worse if we skip a day.

Also, just last year around her 7th bday, she started getting underarm odor. So now it's daily bath and also deodorant.

This is the concerning part. 7 yo should no have underarm odor.

Your ignorance is simply astounding. This is just not true.

[Anonymous]

My kid is 2.5 and we don’t shampoo or soap every day, but we do fill the tub with water and let him play to rinse/wash his privates and get sweat off. It’s a nice part of the bedtime routine. He does get his hair shampooed every other day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22:44 Europeans who bathe every 3 or 4 days may not get sick but they stink to high heaven!

+1 They also don’t seem to use deodorant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daily during the summer, probably 99% of the time in winter too--it's part of nightly routine and she's always loved it, and her eczema somehow seems to get a little worse if we skip a day.

Also, just last year around her 7th bday, she started getting underarm odor. So now it's daily bath and also deodorant.

This is the concerning part. 7 yo should no have underarm odor.

Your ignorance is simply astounding. This is just not true.

No, it's not. Check what AAP has to say. Underarm odor is often a sign of early puberty, and that happening at age 7 or before is not good. Enough of a concern that most docs recommend you come in and have it checked out.

[Anonymous]

We shoot for every other day. Sometimes we do more frequently if they've gotten really dirty, and sometimes they ask for one. (The dirtiness is more from if they've eaten something messy or have been playing in dirt - they're too little to have body odor yet.) We don't get much pushback when we ask them to take a bath.