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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daily showering is NOT necessary for good health for most people, and in fact is likely undermining good health in some cases - never mind the waste of water and energy involved. This is entirely an American thing, we have been brainwashed by advertising of products we don’t need to be clean and healthy.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/showering-daily-is-it-necessary-2019062617193[/quote]

It is the cultural norm and expectation here.  In other countries, various unpleasant body odors are common place.  They aren’t here and you will stand out in a negative way.  Especially in a group where no one else smells, it’s obvious where the smell is coming from [/quote]

So then we agree that it's not medically necessary and if there is no BO it's not culturally necessary either. I just don't give a rats ass that you think I should smell like Dove every day.[/quote]

Except medical professionals DO recommend daily showering. [b]Where did you get the idea that they don't?[/b] OP doesn't say what her qualifications are or why she was even "supporting" the teen in her OP. Maybe she should stick to her day job and not question the professionals in charge of helping said teen.[/quote]

Literally from various of my doctors (dermatologists).

Stop making sweeping generalizations for something that's nothing more than a personal preference. [/quote]

Please stop repeating what your dermatologist recommends for your old-lady dry skin.  No one cares and it isn’t applicable here [/quote]

Of course it's applicable. You are just rude and uneducated. You think your preference for daily showers (which no one cares about either) is somehow applicable to everyone.

1) I've had dry skin my whole life. Sine birth.
2) my child has my genetics which means they have dry skin and eczema that had to be treated with steroids and antibiotics when they were a toddler. Even now as a teen they can't use soaps daily or it creates an issue.

Why are you so hell-bent on making everyone fit your stupid mold? Do what you want and leave the rest of us alone.  [/quote]

OP never mentioned her teen having eczema or unusually dry skin, if that were the case, I’m sure she would have mentioned it. It isn’t, this is YOUR problem, but not this teen’s. [/quote]

Why would a teen need to disclose that to the therapist or OP?

Perhaps daily showering practices are better discussed with medical doctors and dermatologists and not in group settings such as OP described. Perhaps the whole point was to shame the teen which is what OP took the issue with and I think it's despicable. Your personal preferences are your own. Leave the rest of us alone. [/quote]

If OP’s kid had a medical condition where a doctor specifically told her not to bathe daily, she wouldn’t be here crowd-sourcing if we all think teens to shower daily. [/quote]

I don't think she is talking about her own child. Why do you care so much whether someone else's teen showers?[/quote]

She asked! If she didn’t want opinions then she shouldn’t have posted the question [/quote]

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