re: Dear Parents: Body Spray is not a substitute for bathing

Try doing this next time

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what point, age, can I call a kid out, and say "You fricking stink, go home and take a shower and then come back."

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today age.

You come to my house I call out all bad behavior.

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Worse, its like Right Guard from the early 90's.

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Submariner Shower.
Wash cloth and a can of Right Guard.
Water was scarce on the old Diesel Submarines.

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by 5pm the boys stink

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Weird how it's only the boys. I have to keep an ionizer in their room just to breathe when I go in there. God knows it's not avoiding baths--they'll flat drain two 50 gallon hot water heaters every night. My daughter's room is like any other room in the house--nothing noxious at all. In fact, whenever I need to grab a weekday nap, there's no question whose bed I'm grabbing.

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You need to put up a privacy fence around that trailer.

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This will make the neighborhood children bathe more often?

It's probably something he is eating. And you also have to try different soap and deodorant combinations until one works. But diet elimination is a starter and make sure he is pooping. My oat boys can tolerate DOVE men products in the gray bottles. Also, there are great ways to wash his clothes where it's like a back up when the soap and deodorant fail. Also having him shower or bathe TWICE a day should help. And one to two Clorox soaks a week. About a half a cup(4-6oz) of bleach in bath water to his neck and soak for twenty minutes. Rinse off in shower and wash with mold soap. Hope that helps. I'd probably start with the Clorox bathes, eliminating surgery drinks and crap chips that kids gorge on. And two baths/showers a day.

Might allergies and sinus clogging her nose senses of smell and COVID didn't help. Start letting her use a good allergy nose spray and one of the ones you only use for three days and within about 7 days those bad smells are going to make her nauseous.

Life long allergy sufferer here.