AIBU to refuse to let 11 yo DS wear Lynx?

[AthenaAshton]

He is desperate for a can of the stuff because "all the boys in my class have it".

For one thing, I suspect that's not true. But even if it were:

1. I don't want him wearing any kind of product that he might inhale (he's daft enough to spray it on copiously in a confined space).

1. I don't think any child of that age needs anti-perspirants of any description.

1. I don't want him to smell like particularly bad loo cleaner.

1. If all the boys in his class jumped off the roof of a building, would he have to do it too?

He thinks I'm unspeakably paranoid and ridiculous for suggesting that he will die either of Lynx inhalation or cancer caused by toxins from spray-on anti-perspirants. Happily, all his pocket money is confiscated for the next month so there is no risk of him buying it off his own bat.

But AIBU?

Your DS MIGHT be getting teased by the other boys after PE. He might be noticing that when he's hot and sweaty, he smells a bit whiffy?

And my 14yo uses Lynx but it hardly touches his skin because it's cold from the spray and he shrieks and leaps away

yabu my 8 y/o has lynx

I just don't want him to disguise it with something that might give him cancer or cause him to die by fume-inhalation

What??!! You think Lynx causes cancer & kills people. Pretty sure that if it was that carcinogenic it wouldn't be sold.

That sentance does make you sound a little ignorant & possibly a little nuts too?

It does smell yucky but what a small, minor thing to agonise over! Give way on things like this & save your arguements for the big things; wait till he's 16 & you possibly find him drinking, smoking cannabis etc, now that's worth fighting over.

I thought it was THE LAW that all teenage boys wear Lynx?!

You sound like my friend, her 11 year old hasn't been allowed to grow up.

He's just started high school with a hair cut that was ok when he was 4, but the other kids will take the p* out of him for it

Its a tin of smelly stuff, you need to pick your battles!

My brother is a teacher and claims to be in danger of passing out from the strong Lynx fumes at the beginning of term after Christmas! However, he feels it is preferable to enduring unwashed teenage boy fumes. YABU.

The reason teens don't get nits is due to excessive use of Lynx

He needs something but yanbu to ban lynx from house.eughhh foul shit

YABU.

He's a lad going through puberty. He will start to need, if not already need a deodorant.

Exactly, that's why they have banned fags and burnt meat jackanory

YUBU
I have brought DS who is 9 lynx, as he really started to need it!

The biggest problem is getting him to use it. I brought a nicer smelling one Apollo, nothing like Africa!!

My goodness, 137 responses to Lynx. I'm sure their marketing people would be delighted!

Just to report back. I bought some Lynx 'body spray' as recommended by someone's son. DS said it stinks, and that it made his asthma worse. So I have good mother points, and he's not using it.

I am amazed by how many people assume that my DS is not using deodorant, just because he has (had) no Lynx. There are other deodorants, folks - and, yes, he has been using them (paraben-free ones from the Body Shop, in case anyone wondered).

Cancer/fume-inhalation comments were not to be taken (entirely) seriously. I am generally anti-aerosols (especially in confined spaces), and still am.

And no, I have not vanished! I'm happy to be told I'm thoroughly unreasonable. But with several DC and animals, I am short of time...

YANBU
Its hideous and I would not want my son to use it :)
I will be checking out the alternatives.

YABU.

as long as it's not the dreaded Lynx Africa. Yuk. the smell of teen boys with too much bodyspray makes me gag so so badly.

I take serious issue with the advertising, so that would be the only reason for me to not get somesuch for my nephew. he's 13, now, and i should probably get him something a little classier for Xmas.

I figured although it wasn't something I liked it was up to ds what he wanted use. It was pretty clear after about 6 months that lynx doesn't actually work well and ds honked so we've moved onto proper Nivea for men

I love Lynx Africa , it reminds me of DH when we first met.