7 year old and hygiene - Page 2

[Fuamami]

I haven't read all the responses, but my dd is seven, will be eight in February, and never, ever wipes unless she poops. I'm totally fine with that. She doesn't change her underpants afterward, and I see no need to do so. I like to wipe, but I have pubic hair and it gets wet. Very little of a girl's genitalia actually get any pee on them.

Also, she sometimes only bathes once a week. We have a crappy shower now, though she used to shower more often. She always bathes, and washes her own hair, though also only about once a week. In the summer she bathes more often, but our house is drafty, she doesn't get very dirty, and I like the savings in energy. She dresses herself and fixes her own hair, too.

Now, I would not stand for hands down the pants touching genitalia or anus during a meal, or really touching your anus any time. I know it might be a little different if she's a s-kid, don't know how your relationship is, but this is one of the things I reserve my true disgust for, and let it show. Do you feel comfortable doing that?

[Minxie]

I came over from the main page and second both the Dove for sensitive skin and the rec to see a dr regarding a possible yeast infection. I find Dial and Ivory both very drying for my skin, especially in the wintertime.

[mizliz72]

Her mother died when she was 1, and she's lived with me and SO for 4 years.  I am mom to her.  I feel comfortable with talking to her about all of it and I do, she just doesn't do it.  I don't know how much she forgets to wipe anymore.  At home we haven't caught her lately, but now we are after her to flush because we had told her not to so we could check.  At school, I don't know cus I'm not there.  What you do with your kid is your business, but when she doesn't wipe, the underwear has a wet spot, and that's not good to have stay against her skin as far as I'm concerned, and whether the pee gets on her actual genitalia is questionable and either way I feel they should wipe.  That's my opinion and how I'm raising my child.  She's had chaffing before (redness and pain) and I, and her Dr., was pretty convinced it was from not wiping.  Why would you want wet underwear against you skin?  Not just wet, but urine?