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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wash DS's hair when it gets dirty, with food or mud, etc. Sometimes not for weeks, sometimes several times a week. He's 4.

My brother thinks it's disgusting not to shampoo every day. He learned that [b]your skin needs to be cleaned with soap daily[/b] in med school. We disagree about this.[/quote]

I have to agree w/this PP.

The scalp is just like the face...Just covered in hair. So by not washing your daughter's hair for those nine days, it is just as if you didn't cleanse their facial skin for nine days. Not [i]healthy.[/i]

I have never been able to jump on the "do not shampoo daily" bandwagon myself.  :|

If you are concerned about overdrying the hair, I suggest using moisturizing shampoo & conditioner as well as applying a leave-in conditioner after toweling off the hair.

But PLEASE no skipping daily shampoos or baths for that matter. Kids at this stage in life need to be taught good hygiene and excellent bathing habits.

[b]Trust me, there is no harm or foul in doing this. Plus, they will have great skin in the future!  [/b]:lol: [/quote]

That's not correct.  A preschooler age child does not need to be bathed every day.  Obviously if they are rolling in dirt or playing outside etc they need a bath.  We wash hands multiple times a day and wash faces at least twice a day if not more frequently when they get food on their faces but there is not reason every inch of their body needs to be cleaned every day.  It will have no effect on their skin in the future except that if you bathe them daily and don't use tons of moisturizer you are making their skin dry which will NOT be great in the future.

To the PP with the brother who went to med school: I don't know what med school he went to but that's simply not true either.  I went to med school too and we learned that pre-pubescent kids do NOT need a bath every day and not once in all 4 years of med school and all the books I had to read in that time did anyone or anything every say skin needs to be cleaned with soap daily.  You need to wash your HANDS with soap multiple times a day but NOT every part of your body.

The reason adults need to bathe every day is because we perspire and it smells if we don't bathe or shower.  Pre-pubescent children don't have that problem.  It has nothing to do with health.

OP, as an adult I shower every day, if I have a particularly exerting day (go to the gym etc) I may even shower twice but I wash my hair twice a week.  Every hair dresser I ever knew said it's much better for hair NOT to be washed every day.  Every time you wash it you are removing the natural oil.  Obviously it depends somewhat on the type of hair, some people have naturally very oily hair which should probably be washed more often so it doesn't look greasy but as long as their hair looks good and doesn't smell I think once per week is probably just fine.[/quote]

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