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[quote=Anonymous]My kid only bathes 2x a week and I know she doesn't smell. I'm sure none of her teachers or peers would guess she bathes less often.

But it's not a hack for us (well not the way this thread means). She has eczema and in the winter, in particular, is prone to hot spots and outbreaks. She bathes less often for a bunch of reasons, including the fact that warm water dries out her skin, and that bathing less often enables us to make sure she never goes to bed with any dampness trapped next to her skin, which pretty much guarantees a rash or eczema outbreak for her.

If she just had a bath recently and she needs to get clean, we do a standing sponge bath in the tub with barely warm water -- it takes 3 minutes, 5 if we wash her hair. So it's not like we let her run around dirty because it's not bath night.

She bathes more frequently in the summer (still not daily) because she's outdoors all the time and getting dirty, and because her eczema is significantly better that time of year because her skin retains moisture better.

All this "oh my gosh, your child only baths 2x a week!" pearl clutching is ridiculous. Two times a week is plenty for most kids, especially this time a year.

We do wash sheets weekly, though. I don't find it that burdensome -- I like fresh sheets on my own bed weekly anyway, and I just throw DD's sheets in with ours. [/quote]

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