Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 23:10     Subject: Re:How often does your 9 year old shower?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your kids teacher would appreciate once a day. Have you ever been in an elementary school at the end of the day. Smells horrible like body odor.


I have, and I don’t recall any smelly pre-pubescent kids.


Not true. I’ve smelled elementary aged kids at the end of the day and they smell like puppies. In some cases, onions.


A lot of them smell like stale pee too, because they hold it too long before going to the bathroom and have tiny accidents. They're too busy playing.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 23:01     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
In the winter, twice a week, but he wipes his booty, arm pits and face every night with a washcloth/soap.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 22:53     Subject: Re:How often does your 9 year old shower?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your kids teacher would appreciate once a day. Have you ever been in an elementary school at the end of the day. Smells horrible like body odor.


I have, and I don’t recall any smelly pre-pubescent kids.


This thread is eye opening as to why so many people stink.

Maybe there are some Asian respondents with the abcc11 gene?
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:45     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
Anonymous wrote:We seem to run out of time for a shower most nights. Is showering once or twice a week before puberty gross? She doesn't play a ton of sports and doesn't smell. I'm just finding working in more frequent showers challenging between activities, reading time, homework, etc.


You have become nose blind. Trust me, she smells if she’s only showering once or twice a week.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:42     Subject: Re:How often does your 9 year old shower?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Your kids teacher would appreciate once a day. Have you ever been in an elementary school at the end of the day. Smells horrible like body odor.


I have, and I don’t recall any smelly pre-pubescent kids.


Not true. I’ve smelled elementary aged kids at the end of the day and they smell like puppies. In some cases, onions.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:38     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
Anonymous wrote:OP, one of the best parenting moves I ever made was to lock in the (pretty much) non negotiable daily evening shower when the kids were still young enough to do what I said. Sometimes if they were sick they skipped, or if they were really tired they might do a "rinse off" only, but establishing the routine was super important. My older son was dumbfounded at the number of stinky teens who did not shower every day when he started traveling with classmates in high school. Like using after shave instead or counting "swimming in the lake" as a bath.

If your daughter is running out of time because her hair is long, get her a shower cap to use every other day. But now is the time to enforce this behavor.


This. Literally tonight I decided to let DD skip the shower tonight only because she has a recital tomorrow night and will be coming home early and taking a shower before that, and she was like "no, I'd really rather take one" so I had her take a quick one with a shower cap. I like that at 7 she already has this baked in as hygiene so I don't have to fight with her over it.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:38     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
When my child was 9, her underarms smelled. She played sports and was active at school. She had to shower/bathe everyday. I really question children showering less than 5 times a week.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:36     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nasty how they don’t clean their ass crack for a week


That's a minimum of 7 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 craps without washing their butts. Let that sink in. I'm totally shocked at how gross people are around here. There is no excuse for this! None!


Have you never heard of wet wipes? They are much better at cleaning than TP.

Awful for environment idiot


Also how are people disposing of these? They are not flushable (even the "flushable" ones clog sewer pipes). Are people throwing wet wipes with poop on them in the trash? It seems so gross to me. Why not just take a quick shower with soap daily? If you aren't washing hair, will take less than five minutes, and then you're clean.


It's really no different than the wipes you use on a baby, minus the diaper.


Yes and when I had a baby, we had a diaper pail that got taken out every time there was a poopy diaper because I didn't want that $hit in my house. This is precisely why it's thrilling when your kid starts using the toilet so you don't have to deal with poop anymore, but apparently many of you are filling bathroom trashcans with poopy wet wipes? Groooooooss. Just take a freaking shower.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:32     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
Every day.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:32     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
OP, one of the best parenting moves I ever made was to lock in the (pretty much) non negotiable daily evening shower when the kids were still young enough to do what I said. Sometimes if they were sick they skipped, or if they were really tired they might do a "rinse off" only, but establishing the routine was super important. My older son was dumbfounded at the number of stinky teens who did not shower every day when he started traveling with classmates in high school. Like using after shave instead or counting "swimming in the lake" as a bath.

If your daughter is running out of time because her hair is long, get her a shower cap to use every other day. But now is the time to enforce this behavor.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 20:14     Subject: Re:How often does your 9 year old shower?
Are all these kids in public school?! 9-year old DD definitely needs a shower daily. The schools are oozing with germs, viruses, lice, ugh. Also even if your child doesn't sweat much (although mine does sweat when she plays sports), a lot of sports require showering -- baseball gets that red dirt all over them, gymnastics facilities harbor foot funguses and other gross stuff, etc. I suppose if we homeschooled, then on days when she didn't have a sport, we'd be ok skipping it.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 18:39     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
Daily except Friday nights cuz no school the next day. But yes on Saturday because 2 nights without bathing would be stinky.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 17:18     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nasty how they don’t clean their ass crack for a week


That's a minimum of 7 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 craps without washing their butts. Let that sink in. I'm totally shocked at how gross people are around here. There is no excuse for this! None!


Have you never heard of wet wipes? They are much better at cleaning than TP.

Awful for environment idiot


Also how are people disposing of these? They are not flushable (even the "flushable" ones clog sewer pipes). Are people throwing wet wipes with poop on them in the trash? It seems so gross to me. Why not just take a quick shower with soap daily? If you aren't washing hair, will take less than five minutes, and then you're clean.


The time it takes is not the point. Why would there be poop on it? Kids are taught how to clean themselves.

They make disposal biodegradable cloths that have sensitive cleanser on it. You just wet it and use it, no need to rinse. It’s recyclable unlike wipes.

They use them in hospitals or hiking and other reasons.

Also perfect for parents with mysophobia. Helps calm the anxiety of the disturbed parent and doesn’t damage the delicate skin of children.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 10:52     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
Ha, like 1-3x a week. Helps with eczema. And like 4-6x a week in summer, depending on how often we're in the pool or ocean.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2025 08:25     Subject: How often does your 9 year old shower?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Daily shower, washing hair every other day. It takes literally 5 minutes to properly soap the body and rinse. Additional 5 minute when washing hair. Do better at parenting.


Wow. Do better at kindness, and not judging and shaming other people.

I hope this isn’t how you treat your kids and isn’t the example you set for them.


This ain’t it. Bring back shame! Daily bathing should be the default. There are of course some limited exceptions. Stop using “be nice!!” as a shield against criticism. And stop being nasty and wash your ass.


+1,000 a shower once a week is neglect.