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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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![/quote]

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

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

I really don't give one crap what you think! 
My 3 kids have never bathed more than every other day except in summer (now as pre-teen athletes) and they're now in late elementary and middle school.  They have a TON of friends and get invited to other people's houses many times a week. 
They are straight A students and excellent athletes.

Why should I care that they don't bathe daily in the winter?  It is not affecting their social lives one iota.  They get more playdates, texts, sleepover requests, etc. than they know what to do with. [/quote]

What does having straight As and being excellent athletes have anything to do with it? Bottom line is it’s gross to not bathe or shower daily. I would think you’d especially want them showering or bathing after practice, them being all star athletes.[/quote]

The point is that if it is so 'gross,' then it would likely turn others off or somehow impact their life in other ways.  Absent any impacts, who cares?  I shower at inconsistent intervals, sometimes every few days.  I am very successful at work in a people oriented job, have never had problems romantically, and am generally successful in life, knock on wood.  So obviously it's not something to give two hoots about.  I don't care how much you shower, but I do care about others being such judgy mcjudgers about those of us who take a different approach.  Not gross, just different.[/quote]

Probably they’re too kind to say anything. Do you go up to people and say, “Hey you stink? Please shower?” No, but you certainly notice it. Gross.[/quote]

Yes, but it doesn't affect other people and their kids clamoring to have my kids over for play dates.  It does't affect my kids from being well-loved by teachers.  It just doesn't affect our family from have a large circle of friends and getting invited to more events and dinners and bbqs than we can ever attend.

So if people are so turned off by our collective stench, they're apparently responding by wanting to spend MORE time with us.    Because each year our social circle widens.[/quote]

So, in my experience, people don’t exclude the smelly kid (and yes, your middle school athletes that don’t shower reek), they just discuss it, mostly behind your back.  Sometimes to your face.  Not saying I do this (so no need for you to go off on me).  It’s just odd that you are so adamant to defend not having your teens shower—it literally takes 5 minutes.[/quote]

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