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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every 3 days. Yes, they get a little smelly. I don’t understand how so many of you reconcile saying the kids should have bodily autonomy with forcing them to shower when they don’t want to. [/quote]

I am the before the last meal/dinner in pj’s poster.  It doesn’t feel like I am forcing anything.  For my kids routine is really powerful and this has just always been the routine.

If a kid has a reason for not wanting to shower then, and that happens, most recently it was a kid who was planning to go back out to shoot hoops after dinner, then we do something different.  If my kid had some body autonomy related reason then he would tell me and we problem solve.  The closest was when one kid had a virtual class in the evening with cute girls and wanted to have dry hair for said cute girls and that seemed reasonable to me so I just asked him what his plan was and he said he’d shower after class.

I should add that one kid has severe pollen allergies, so washing pollen out of his hair is a routine we started very young for good reason.  Also DH has a job where he is exposed to disgusting stuff so we’ve had the routine of “Daddy showers when he gets home, and we don’t hug him till he does” since birth.[/quote]

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