I've had to move on a train because of teenage boy smell

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I've forgotten how smelly they are!!!

Like really damp, ripe, dog smell. They look clean too, clearly they had showers this morning. Their hair looks nice.

No. I'm not pregnant - they really stink!

I have no idea how teenage boys can smell bad when they take so many showers...

I suppose it’s possible not an awful lot of washing goes on in those showers

I once had the misfortune to stay in a boys boarding house (over the summer). There were no actual boys there but it was half underground and 100 boys live there 39 weeks of the year.

My god the smell. 🤢🤢🤮

It's rank. My DP can still make a bedroom smell manish despite showering. I blame all the testosterone! It must leak out of their pores in a "I am ripe and ready to mate!" way 

Their parents, particularly mothers (sorry if that's sexist), need to take their boys in hand. Also school need to have a word. There's no excuse for anyone smelling bad nowadays.

I spoke sternly to my son when he was 8/9. He bathed before school - loved bathing and showering - but came home stinking. I told him he had to bathe 'properly' and use an antiperspirant - started him off on that one that was advertised with people leaning against trees - does anyone remember? Anyway, it worked.

I was lucky that school blazer was a washable one. I could wash it, hang it up and it would be dry by morning.

Their parents, particularly mothers

Why?

(sorry if that's sexist)

It is. And I suspect that you aren't sorry.

I used to be a careers adviser. I now manage careers advisers and I do not miss being shut in windowless rooms with teenage boys.

Also school need to have a word. There's no excuse for anyone smelling bad nowadays.

Seriously? How do you imagine that conversation would go then? And - let me guess - you imagine a female teacher doing it?

It’s hormones.

Do tell me Rebecca36 how my ovaries and XX chromosomes make me more able to take my son 'in hand' than his father. And why on earth should the school deal with it? You do realise we're in 2018?

Eeeee. DS is 13 and his room stinks but he doesn't . A while ago he had a few mates round. DP walked in from work and shouted 'What is that smell?' . It was rank. Stinky creatures.

Ds1s room used to smell like that, he didn’t smell himself though. Rank 🤢

Try teaching a whole class full of them (boys and girls)!

One of less lovely aspects of my previous job was occasionally having to tell adults that they smell.

Just to clarify that was following on from someone suggesting teachers should deal with it. I don't know whether teachers do tackle it, but sooner or later someone other than a parent may.

I’m a teacher and I tackle it.

Teen girls definitely smell as well, my lovely step daughter just absolutely reeks by the end of the day, and she still looks shiny and clean, but the smell!!

I’m guessing the 36 in Rebecca36’s name refers to her year of birth because that’s a ridiculously antiquated attitude .

Teens do smell funky even if they’re clean ones. I used to have to get on the bus at the same time the local secondary was letting out . I did lots of breathing into my scarf.

I'm sorry I said, "Particularly mothers". Of course fathers can do the same but I feel that women and girls, on the whole, have more sensitive noses.

Anyway, will rephrase. Parents should take their children in hand and ensure good hygiene.

No I wasn't born in 1936 (or 1836). I am a little young thing really :-).

I call it Eau de Boy. I can't believe I was attracted to other teenage boys when I was a teen, oh, the pong!

For gods sake it isn’t that bad, I have 4 boys and I just breathe through my mouth and direct them into a shower I’d have just moved on the train is there any need to make nasty comments about kids, he probably doesn’t know he smells maybe it’s not the kid I’ve smelled plenty honking adults.

Yup, teenage girls can pong just as much.

We were talking earlier about Teenage friend of DDS who kept his pet hamster in his bedroom.
DD asked "what about the smell?"
DH replied "I'm sure the hamster will get used to it".