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difficult child's Personal (UN)hygiene is grossing me out!
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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 42166" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>Short of holding her down and washing her yourself, I don't know that there really is much you can do. Not that I don't sympathize, mind you. My difficult child isn't at that level but there are still some hygeine issues with him. He showers, if not every day then every couple of days, but he puts his old stinky clothes back on. I think with him it's more a matter of laziness though. I quit doing his laundry about 2 years ago. (Mine is also 17) For one thing, he is/was old enough to do it himself and knows how. For another, he would change clothes 4,5, sometimes 6 times a day for no reason. I simply refused to do all of that laundry. He hasn't had all of his clothes clean since. He'll do a few things here and there but that's it. They are in the bathroom and his room and both rooms just absolutey reek. I'll make him take his clothes back into his room but I've quit doing it because the last time I wandered into his "jungle" I about passed out from the stench. I've tried to talk him into doing laundry, yell, threaten....nothing. I finally just told him flat out last night that he stinks. Absolutely stinks. I said that I can't believe that no one at school has said anything to him about it because it's that bad. He'll drown himself in cologne but once the initial cloud wears off some, the odor just oozes out of his clothes. By his lack of response and the look on his face, I'm guessing that people HAVE said something to him. Afterwards, he did throw a load of clothes in the wash........we'll see if he does anymore today.</p><p></p><p>I guess that's just one of those difficult child-dom things that we all run into. Have a problem? Well quit trying to shift the blame on others and take care of it. It's one of those "very simple solution" issues that they, for whatever reason, can't/won't see. People say you stink? Well then, wash your darn clothes! It's not like you have to haul them all to the river and beat them on a rock! We have machines that do it for you, very simple.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 42166, member: 2459"] Short of holding her down and washing her yourself, I don't know that there really is much you can do. Not that I don't sympathize, mind you. My difficult child isn't at that level but there are still some hygeine issues with him. He showers, if not every day then every couple of days, but he puts his old stinky clothes back on. I think with him it's more a matter of laziness though. I quit doing his laundry about 2 years ago. (Mine is also 17) For one thing, he is/was old enough to do it himself and knows how. For another, he would change clothes 4,5, sometimes 6 times a day for no reason. I simply refused to do all of that laundry. He hasn't had all of his clothes clean since. He'll do a few things here and there but that's it. They are in the bathroom and his room and both rooms just absolutey reek. I'll make him take his clothes back into his room but I've quit doing it because the last time I wandered into his "jungle" I about passed out from the stench. I've tried to talk him into doing laundry, yell, threaten....nothing. I finally just told him flat out last night that he stinks. Absolutely stinks. I said that I can't believe that no one at school has said anything to him about it because it's that bad. He'll drown himself in cologne but once the initial cloud wears off some, the odor just oozes out of his clothes. By his lack of response and the look on his face, I'm guessing that people HAVE said something to him. Afterwards, he did throw a load of clothes in the wash........we'll see if he does anymore today. I guess that's just one of those difficult child-dom things that we all run into. Have a problem? Well quit trying to shift the blame on others and take care of it. It's one of those "very simple solution" issues that they, for whatever reason, can't/won't see. People say you stink? Well then, wash your darn clothes! It's not like you have to haul them all to the river and beat them on a rock! We have machines that do it for you, very simple. [/QUOTE]
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