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difficult child's Personal (UN)hygiene is grossing me out!
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 42371" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p>difficult child was fairly okay about her personal hygiene up until about age 13-ish. Up till that point, she'd occasionally give me a hard time, but she'd do it at least. As long as I stood by her side or bopped in and out of the bathroom, she'd pretty much stay on track. And then she simply started refusing. And she'd yell at me to stop treating her like a baby...I figured it was a good thing to give her that control over her body, but I still gave her reminders along the way. I never ever had this problem with easy child. She has always wanted to be clean and fresh, she smells nice and her hair is always clean, teeth always brushed. Both my girls had braces and I swear, I thought for sure when they took off difficult child's braces there were going to be holes in her teeth. To my complete surprise, she never had a cavity the entire 2 years and her braces came off without any holes. She does have stained teeth however, and I blame smoking and coffee on that along with the not brushing regularly. </p><p></p><p>I shrug my shoulders as I write this. There is no 'trick', in my opinion. I think it is what it is. Maybe one day her best friend of boyfriend will say, "Peeeeuw, you STINK!" and then she'll understand what we've been saying all along!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 42371, member: 2211"] difficult child was fairly okay about her personal hygiene up until about age 13-ish. Up till that point, she'd occasionally give me a hard time, but she'd do it at least. As long as I stood by her side or bopped in and out of the bathroom, she'd pretty much stay on track. And then she simply started refusing. And she'd yell at me to stop treating her like a baby...I figured it was a good thing to give her that control over her body, but I still gave her reminders along the way. I never ever had this problem with easy child. She has always wanted to be clean and fresh, she smells nice and her hair is always clean, teeth always brushed. Both my girls had braces and I swear, I thought for sure when they took off difficult child's braces there were going to be holes in her teeth. To my complete surprise, she never had a cavity the entire 2 years and her braces came off without any holes. She does have stained teeth however, and I blame smoking and coffee on that along with the not brushing regularly. I shrug my shoulders as I write this. There is no 'trick', in my opinion. I think it is what it is. Maybe one day her best friend of boyfriend will say, "Peeeeuw, you STINK!" and then she'll understand what we've been saying all along! [/QUOTE]
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