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difficult child's Personal (UN)hygiene is grossing me out!
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<blockquote data-quote="mattsmom27" data-source="post: 42192" data-attributes="member: 50"><p>This is an issue here for me too. Spent years grossed out by my difficult child. Now he does shower every single morning during the school week, it is mandatory for me that he go to school each day clean. He didn't like it. I told him that although I loathe his hair (long, very long, shaggy and unkept, looks horrible and it isn't that long hair on a male bugs me, just his hair looks like a rats nest!) I will shut up about it if he washes it for school each day, otherwise the war is on until he cuts his hair. Come weekends however, he doesn't shower, hair gets greasy and nastier. He will put on clean clothes weekdays. Weekends he wears same clothes, sleeps in them. It is gross. He does take a shower on weekends if he smells himself and realizes he stinks. I guess I'm grateful he showers for school. But his hair? Even clean it looks disgusting, he doesnt brush it. I have to get ticked with him for him to quickly pass a brush through it, and even then well it's drying on the ends and it is so thick that it just is gross really. </p><p>difficult child wants zoom whitening at the dentist for his stains. Yup, his teeth look nasty. Well let me think about it. Um, nope. They never get brushed, he smokes so that stains them too. Why would I pay nearly a thousand dollars for cosmetic dental procedure for a kid who is smoking and never brushes his teeth? </p><p>I dont have any answers on how to help our kids "get it". I do put my foot down if he is coming out somewhere with us. He must be freshly showered, must have clean unwrinkled clothes on and he must have clean hair that has been brushed. If I can smell him, he showers and does nothing else in this house until he does shower. That's about all the power I have over his hygiene. </p><p>He came home upset yesterday, something about kids buying gross toy teeth at a buck store and wearing them and calling themselves him. Well buddy, yup I see why you want cosmetic work for your teeth and I'd gladly pay for it, nasty teeth are ... well NASTY! But not before he proves himself by taking care of his teeth, brushing well at least 2 times a day. Maybe yesterdays moment with these kids will clue him in. It does bother him. But enough to change it? Who knows!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mattsmom27, post: 42192, member: 50"] This is an issue here for me too. Spent years grossed out by my difficult child. Now he does shower every single morning during the school week, it is mandatory for me that he go to school each day clean. He didn't like it. I told him that although I loathe his hair (long, very long, shaggy and unkept, looks horrible and it isn't that long hair on a male bugs me, just his hair looks like a rats nest!) I will shut up about it if he washes it for school each day, otherwise the war is on until he cuts his hair. Come weekends however, he doesn't shower, hair gets greasy and nastier. He will put on clean clothes weekdays. Weekends he wears same clothes, sleeps in them. It is gross. He does take a shower on weekends if he smells himself and realizes he stinks. I guess I'm grateful he showers for school. But his hair? Even clean it looks disgusting, he doesnt brush it. I have to get ticked with him for him to quickly pass a brush through it, and even then well it's drying on the ends and it is so thick that it just is gross really. difficult child wants zoom whitening at the dentist for his stains. Yup, his teeth look nasty. Well let me think about it. Um, nope. They never get brushed, he smokes so that stains them too. Why would I pay nearly a thousand dollars for cosmetic dental procedure for a kid who is smoking and never brushes his teeth? I dont have any answers on how to help our kids "get it". I do put my foot down if he is coming out somewhere with us. He must be freshly showered, must have clean unwrinkled clothes on and he must have clean hair that has been brushed. If I can smell him, he showers and does nothing else in this house until he does shower. That's about all the power I have over his hygiene. He came home upset yesterday, something about kids buying gross toy teeth at a buck store and wearing them and calling themselves him. Well buddy, yup I see why you want cosmetic work for your teeth and I'd gladly pay for it, nasty teeth are ... well NASTY! But not before he proves himself by taking care of his teeth, brushing well at least 2 times a day. Maybe yesterdays moment with these kids will clue him in. It does bother him. But enough to change it? Who knows! [/QUOTE]
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