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Ding ding ding.  I would guess most of us have very similar standards, but are dealing with different people’s bodies.  I have never smelled. I shower every day because I love showers, but I do not need to for hygiene.  Even after a long workout, I am sweaty but don’t have BO.  I just don’t have that hormone or something.  My hair is not naturally oily at all.  My best friend HAS to shower every day or else she looks like a grease ball and feels disgusting.  People’s bodies are all different!  My son is 8 and doesn’t bathe every day, and looks put together and hygienic (hair brushed, clean face, clean unwrinkled clothes) every day.  He smells of nothing but sweet little kid. He knows that when puberty comes, he will need to wash more regularly. Showering more frequently isn’t some sort of skill you’ll lose if you don’t start practicing it as a baby.  We will adjust when need be.  Of course when he has a soccer game and comes home muddy and sweaty, he goes right into the shower. I guarantee you there is not a poster on here who would do otherwise.  Maybe the people who insist on bathing their kids every day have kids who play outside for a lot of the day or are naturally more oily/sweaty?  And to the PP, we don’t all have kindergartners just because you do. My 3rd grader can wipe myself perfectly well. If he smelled or appeared dirty in any way of course he would get a shower!

There is something weirdly insecure/juvenile about the posters who insist children need to be scrubbed within an inch of their lives.  All the “you’re nasty!” commenters remind me of kids on a playground, deflecting for their own social survival.  Do you really think we would just be ok Cuddling our kids at home or sending them to school smelling?  I would guess we are all working with a similar set of standards, but different bodies. 
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+All this. My 8 yo DC still has the sweet little kid smell no BO even after going to school and playing outside etc. So yeah showers once a week, but change clothes daily and brush hair etc. I remember growing up with daily showers and in my culture that is the norm but we did lots of things without thinking and I would want to be more discerning and not just follow some custom blindly.[/quote]

So many societies have failed due to bathing. Good job PP[/quote]

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