8 year olds and hygiene

[SnakePit]

should have added this to my last message...

Just wondering when kids, boys to be precise start to care about personal hygiene, my boys don't care if they smell, they don't care if they go to school without having their teeth brushed, they don't care about whether their clothes are filthy when they put them on, they don't care if yesterdays hair gell is still stuck in their hair making them look like they've been pulled through a candyfloss machine backwards.

When do they start to care?

[Enid]

i dont think they care much at 8 although I dont have any personal experience.

[wordgirl]

When they start to get interested in the opposite sex usually.

[oggsfrog]

Dh is 39 and still doesn't care

[saintmaybe]

i'm hoping peer pressure will kick in at some point, too

[fizzbuzz]

Ds is 13 and still has no interest. Is quite happy to walk around with remains of last meal on face/down front.

Has to be forced into shower, and will condition his hair but not wash it Everyone said he would improve when he became a teenager.

Well he hasn't and is nearer 14 than 13