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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And posters on this thread being dismissive about shower shoes are simply dumb. Encourage your college kids to wear them and explain WHY. Yes, people really do pick up plantar warts and athlete's foot (which can actually be a stubborn, nasty infection, not a joke at all) in communal showers. Damn, some parents on DCUM think it's somehow "helicoptering" to talk about this stuff with their college-bound or college student kids. Nope, it's called sharing what you as an adult know, with your kid who has little life experience yet. But on DCUM, God forbid any parent should give one iota of advice about communal living to a kid who's never had to share a bedroom or bathroom with anyone but family. [/quote]

[quote]Most of us have imparted that knowledge over the last 18 years and don't have to cram basic hygiene at the last minute. Yes, there are things to teach at the last minute but wearing flip flops to a communal shower is not one. Most of our kids have been at pools, gyms or sleepaway camps and have heard this before.[/quote]

Love the 2nd PP's privileged arrogance.  "Most of our kids" have attended expensive sleepaway camps or belong to pools, duh!

My kid finished swim lessons at at 6 (at the DPR pool).  No pool showering since then.  Forgive him if he forgot in the ensuing 12 years what I told him in 1st grade about fungal infections.  It's not really dinner conversation so it hasn't come up since [/quote]

Exactly. My 14 and 16 yo kids have never taken a shower in a communal space. [/quote]

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