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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine did this as a younger teen.  I implemented some rules.  Showers must be taken every other day minimum and hair shampooed at least twice weekly. If she had a sports practice that day, that meant she had to shower.  It’s just part of taking care of yourself.  [/quote]

This. We treat showers the same way we treat brushing teeth. Especially once kids hit puberty, it's essential for health and hygiene.

There are lots of things you can do to make it feel like less of a chore, or to minimize the disruption it causes to routine. My kid sometimes resists showers because, left to her own devices, she gets lost in thought in there and will wind up taking a 20 minute shower and then spend like 15 minutes drying off and getting dressed, and this eats up a huge amount of her evening. [b]So we have a shower timer and a checklist on the back of the bathroom door, and have been essentially training her on how to take a 5 minute shower[/b] and dry off and dress quickly so that, like brushing/flossing teeth, it can be something she can easily accomplish right when she gets home or just before bed.

We haven't moved to morning showers (I actually prefer evening showers myself because I vastly prefer going to bed feeling clean) but creating a short shower routine will also help with that if we ever switch.

DD is also a swimmer and that has helped enormously because on swim days she showers at the pool and that lends itself to a short routine because she has to use the group showers and there's always a line for dressing rooms and once practice is over she just wants to be done so we can leave and get dinner or go home.[/quote]

I seriously cannot tell if this is trolling, tongue in cheek joking, or serious. The amount of crazy I've read on here.....one really never knows. [/quote]

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