Problem with 10yr help please! - Page 2

[3boysmom]

None of my kids have this particular issue (I can't seem to get my 15 y.o. OUT of the shower!) but I can tell you that this will become a social problem for your dd, if it hasn't already. I've witnessed more than one child being teased, taunted, or just plain isolated due to hygiene issues. By around age 9-10 kids (boys and girls) seem to start noticing these things and they are generally not shy about refusing to sit next to someone with a bad odor or greasy hair all while saying loudly something like "I'm not sitting next to the stinky greaseball". I hope you can insist that hygiene is not negotiable so that you can save her from the pain that peers can cause.

[a-sorta-fairytale]

Originally Posted by 3boysmom

None of my kids have this particular issue (I can't seem to get my 15 y.o. OUT of the shower!) but I can tell you that this will become a social problem for your dd, if it hasn't already. I've witnessed more than one child being teased, taunted, or just plain isolated due to hygiene issues. By around age 9-10 kids (boys and girls) seem to start noticing these things and they are generally not shy about refusing to sit next to someone with a bad odor or greasy hair all while saying loudly something like "I'm not sitting next to the stinky greaseball". I hope you can insist that hygiene is not negotiable so that you can save her from the pain that peers can cause.

Yeah that. I remember in 6th grade one girl was taunted and called "stinky pee girl" another "sweaty pitt girl" and then there was "ratt nest head" Kids that age can be cruel.

[mommy68]

Originally Posted by lckrause

I would just be straight with her and tell her that she needs to brush her teeth and wash if she wants to smell good, and that right now she doesn't smell good. If you haven't tried that already. As for the clothes, she should be putting them in the laundry, not under her bed... perhaps make throwing clothes in the laundry basket a part of her nightly routine? My 10yo is not the best at putting his laundry in the basket either, so I have to remind him.

ITA I have a 10 yr old that hates to shower and I have to remind him daily. I stay on him all the time about washing his nasty hands (he'd go all day with dirty hands) and brushing his teeth. It's part of my job as a parent.

[my4magpies]

I think since a lot of us are having the same issue, kids seem to get "lazy" around ages 9-12 (??)...my 10 y/o DD is the same. I have to make her take a shower, then can't get her out! It's an issue to get her to brush her teeth! My 2 older kids would go weeks w/out brushing if I'd let them! I've recently talkd to DD about what is expected of her (washing, clean underwear, etc), especially now that she's getting older and her body starts changing. It's helped a bit, but I still have to monitor showers, teeth and such...but that's my job, so that's what I do.