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difficult child's Personal (UN)hygiene is grossing me out!
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<blockquote data-quote="neednewtechnique" data-source="post: 42948" data-attributes="member: 3527"><p>I have a difficult time getting our difficult child to take showers, change clothes, etc. First of all, she would take showers lasting hours at a time, and never wash?!?!?!? What was she doing in there?!?!? So we finally tried to explain a good process that would allow her enough time to get everything clean and out of the bathroom in half an hour, and she decided to condition her hair without shampooing first, and decided that shaving her legs was more important than washing herself!! I don't get it!!! Then, she refused to brush her teeth, so I finally figured out it was because she didn't have the right kind of mouthwash. She wanted that new stuff made by Listerine that you swish around and it shows you the dirty spots...so I got it for her (enabling her??? yes probably, but what else could I do??) Then I found out she wasn't wearing deodorant, and asked her why, and she tells me she doesn't like the kind she has, so we went together and picked out some new that she liked, and she STILL doesn't wear it unless I force her, then there is always a meltdown...(basket a??? NOT EVEN CLOSE). THEN I found out she has worn the same bra for 3 weeks!!!! Why?!?!? because she didn't have any clean ones and it was too much work to put some in the laundry for me to wash for her!!!!!!! ARGHHHHAAAA!!!!! I TOTALLY am with you all on this one, WHY ?????? It's so gross!! There's one even better than that, we have started this thing, with her in AGREEMENT with us that she will have 20 minutes in the shower, and then the hot water goes off...if I find she didn't shampoo hair or wash with soap, she goes back in, and the hot water stays off....I expected that she would TOTALLY throw a fit about the idea, but she for some reason agreed...then I figured that the first time we followed through on it she would get ANGRY and throw a fit, and she didn't....I don't know why this works but it has been... but the other night, she came out of the shower and her hair looked a funny orangy color and I could not figure out why...then I found out that she tried to use my shampoo and I use the kind for redheads that supposed to keep the red bright rather than let it dull out, so it has some red tones in the shampoo that don't wash out...she has BRIGHT BLONDE HAIR so it turned her orange!!!!!! (improvement? yes. at least I know she washed her hair, right???? )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neednewtechnique, post: 42948, member: 3527"] I have a difficult time getting our difficult child to take showers, change clothes, etc. First of all, she would take showers lasting hours at a time, and never wash?!?!?!? What was she doing in there?!?!? So we finally tried to explain a good process that would allow her enough time to get everything clean and out of the bathroom in half an hour, and she decided to condition her hair without shampooing first, and decided that shaving her legs was more important than washing herself!! I don't get it!!! Then, she refused to brush her teeth, so I finally figured out it was because she didn't have the right kind of mouthwash. She wanted that new stuff made by Listerine that you swish around and it shows you the dirty spots...so I got it for her (enabling her??? yes probably, but what else could I do??) Then I found out she wasn't wearing deodorant, and asked her why, and she tells me she doesn't like the kind she has, so we went together and picked out some new that she liked, and she STILL doesn't wear it unless I force her, then there is always a meltdown...(basket a??? NOT EVEN CLOSE). THEN I found out she has worn the same bra for 3 weeks!!!! Why?!?!? because she didn't have any clean ones and it was too much work to put some in the laundry for me to wash for her!!!!!!! ARGHHHHAAAA!!!!! I TOTALLY am with you all on this one, WHY ?????? It's so gross!! There's one even better than that, we have started this thing, with her in AGREEMENT with us that she will have 20 minutes in the shower, and then the hot water goes off...if I find she didn't shampoo hair or wash with soap, she goes back in, and the hot water stays off....I expected that she would TOTALLY throw a fit about the idea, but she for some reason agreed...then I figured that the first time we followed through on it she would get ANGRY and throw a fit, and she didn't....I don't know why this works but it has been... but the other night, she came out of the shower and her hair looked a funny orangy color and I could not figure out why...then I found out that she tried to use my shampoo and I use the kind for redheads that supposed to keep the red bright rather than let it dull out, so it has some red tones in the shampoo that don't wash out...she has BRIGHT BLONDE HAIR so it turned her orange!!!!!! (improvement? yes. at least I know she washed her hair, right???? ) [/QUOTE]
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