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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its very simple.

1) Begin with clean, showered kids each day.

2) Make sure they have pooped at home in the morning, make sure they brush their teeth and scrape out their tongue so that they have clean breath.

3) Make sure they eat breakfast at home so that they can clean their faces at home. This will prevent a kid with bits of food stuck on their person.

3)A neat haircut/ponytail will allow your kids hair not to look like a mess. In the mornings, after the shower, style their hair with a bit of leave-in hair conditioner and [b]blow dry it[/b].

4) Make them wear fresh, clean, [b]pressed[/b] clothes that smell great.

5) Make sure that their shoes are clean. You can wash sneakers in the washing machine weekly.

Done.  Kids look clean when they are clean to begin with. Many parents wake their kids and dump them in day care in their PJs and in crumpled clothes. So the kids look like shit to begin with.

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You blow dry your pre-schoolers hair?! and iron their clothes?! Wow.  I give my 4.5 year old a bath every other night and put leave in conditioner in the mornigns after we don't do bath and she has clean clothes and a headband.  She has really curly hair though and still looks a little crazy no matter what we do.  Blow drying it would be nuts for us, but even with kids with straight hair...[/quote]

There is no way this person has multiple children or a full-time job.  [/quote]

I'm not the PP but I work full-time, as does my husband, and we have twin girls and we basically do the above.  I'm Type A about clothes, so I inspect and treat them all before washing and use lots of stain products.  I've also done their hair since they were little because I can't stand kids with hair in their faces so they are used to standing still and getting pony tails, braids, etc.  I pull it back tightly, brush it down smooth, and hairspray it into place.  It never looks as good at the end of the day, but they definitely look crisp and clean in the mornings.  I don't iron their clothes unless necessary (i.e. certain dresses with pleats or something) and they don't wear those clothes except for special occasions anyway.  Part of it is probably the kid's personality, although my girls are very different but neither of them has ever left the house looking bedraggled.  Part of it is the parents' personality.  My husband is less Type A than I am, but we both still make sure our kids are presentable every day.  It obviously takes some time and effort, but I find that people just allocate their time differently, and this is something I spend time on.[/quote]

While I probably wouldn't use the same language as the first PP, I have a routine in place with my children for the mornings which includes putting on a clean and matching outfit; neatly doing hair; teeth brushing; breakfast; and wiping dirty faces and hands before we leave the house. My kids look crisp and clean in the mornings and I often get compliments on their appearance. If we have an afternoon event (after nap time), I will often tidy their hair and change their clothes if they are stained. I have no problem with my kids getting dirty or their clothes getting dirty, I just think that they should start out looking neat when they leave the house.

I don't judge other parents whose kids are less tidy-looking than mine  - I know that they just don't want to spend the extra time it takes to double-check (and sometimes triple check) my kids and would prefer to spend that time doing other activities with their kids - YMMV.

FWIW, I work FT and our 3 kids under 5 are all in preschool/daycare. And the kids looking neat is entirely driven by me - my DH couldn't care less. [/quote]

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