To think many of these parents insisting on daily baths.....

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....might want to think about the amount of bleach they throw around their houses or the factory farm fed animal products they feed their kids.

Not saying that if you do one, you do the other but rather that people obsess about relatively (mostly) harmless dirt but yet can be indifferent to other 'pollutants' (for want of a better word) that are carelessly thrown at themselves and their families and are a lot more harmful than mud, sand or microscopic particles of dog poo left by some heinous person who didn't remove their shoes in the house!

What's the correlation between all these things? Are you saying bathing is bad? What's wrong with a bath before bedtime? Especially if you get into clean jammies and have new bedsheets

Do you know what a sentence is?

We all wash daily, most people I know do, well the ones I want to spend time with anyway

This may be a radical thought for the OP: It's perfectly possible to bathe as often as you wish without using bleach. I have no bleach in my house - it doesn't mean that I haven't bathed for the past several decades.

And do please explain about factory farmed animals and people bathing? Are you suggest we should share out bath with a factory farmed animal? I can't do that I only eat free range but it's a lovely idea.

I'm with you OP! All the Pesticides, E numbers, chemicals from cleaning fluids and people decide to concentrate on grubbiness and washing daily.

Hmm, strange correlation... I'm vegan, my kids are almost vegan, I do own some bleach but a bottle lasts about six months, my children have a bath every night...

I have no idea what you're on about OP, but your posting style is rather genius.

Rather like pin the tail on the factory farm donkey. 👻🐴

Maybe we could throw some animal products around in the bath 🛀🏾 to help? 💩😷🙄

I'm with you, too, OP.

My daughter has a central line and the dressing never survives a bath so she only gets a real proper bath once a week on dressing day.
She is always clean and her is beyond lovely and healthy.
Changed my entire opinion on it now future children will also get less baths.

I bathe in bleach 2 or 3 times a month. Supposed to be weekly but dont manage it. Good for my eczema. Otherwise I shower.

Dd gets a nightly bath. Without soap or shampoo (except last night due to vomiting). Unless she has got yoghurt everywhere because that needs soap to remove it all before it goes rancid.

I don't chuck bleach everywhere. But it is brilliant every now and then for getting rid of the mildew in the grouting. And I eat organic meat, but not organic vegetables as I should really.

How many plane trips have you taken op? How far do you commute to work? How many airmiles has your food traveled before it gets to you?

Humans are bad for the environment. Occasional or liberal use of bleach. Daily or weekly baths are unlikely to be the worst thing I do this year.

I'm quite confused by what you mean.......

We bathe or shower nightly, my DC are always sweaty and grubby by the end of the day so need a proper wash.

I'm also a rubbish housewife and so am not obsessed by cleanliness or afraid of germs, not much bleach gets thrown around this house!

What are you actually talking about?? Why are you arsed about other people's washing habits? What's the connection with bleach use? And I really need to know what a factory farm fed animal is.

There's no way I'm getting back to sleep before my alarm now

That is quite the straw man you've built there OP.

Like the OP my jaw sometimes drops at the way people feel about 'germs'. I'm laid back about house cleaning and don't shower every day, I'm 57 and remarkably healthy. Germphobia seems rife here but I've never heard anyone talk like this in real life.

Better that than to smell like a polecat.

I feel ya op. But that's probably because me and DC only bath/shower 2-3 times a week. I even work in a pretty manual sweaty job but still find that adequate. I've always been like this, in fact I probably shower more now that ever and I've lived a normal life with normal friends and a normal DP (who showers daily!) and nobody's ever told me I smell yet (I have people around me who WOULD tell me!) and I can't smell myself so it's all good!

Bathing kids everyday is about more than cleanliness. It's about setting them up with good habits for when they're older (and smellier), it's about creating a bedtime routine, sometimes it's about spending quality time with the kids after a 12 hour day in the office. Daily bathing/showering is a good thing and tbh I question all those people who don't do it, who suggest they don't stink - I bet you do. People are just too polite to say anything.

Why have there been so many threads about bathing your children ?

My toddler is bathed 2-3 times a week with an all-over wash daily, my older kids shower or bathe every other day, dh and I shower or bathe daily. When older kids start smelling more as they approach puberty they will switch to daily. They don't need to have been plonked in a nightly bath from birth to gain 'good habits'.

There's no bleach here. There are ordinary cleaning products, disinfectant spray and wipes (mainly for the bins and loo) and spirit vinegar. I do sort of know where the OP is coming from - I've raised the odd eyebrow at some threads with posters' accounts of bleaching everywhere daily and putting bleach in the water they use to mop their floors, again daily. I mop floors daily but use an ordinary general cleaner. Overly sterile environments may play a role in allergies and antibiotic resistance.

Ellise - prob people being judged for not bathing their kids and then venting on her lol

I find it baffling that people can care either way whether someone else dunks their children in a little bit of water at the end of each day or not.

I am with you on bleach though, and will bore anyone to tears on the magic of bicarb!

OP - I can see where you are coming from with your post. All of this applies to SOME people by the way - now everybody....

I don't care about other people's washing habits. My kids did not get bathed daily, the use of clean drinking water to wash in and pour down the drain by the gallon without thought makes me feel guilt when there are people in this world who die from lack of or polluted water to drink. We are so wasteful.

And as to the "bedtime routine" argument - not all kids are the same. Mine never had one and still don't. It is not compulsory.

I also felt the use of chemicals - soaps/shower gels/bubble baths/shampoos/conditioners/ whatever on their skin followed by emollients/creams and lotions was part of a timebomb waiting to happen.

The bleach and cleaning chemicals being spread around the house - yes another worry - the complete lack of dirt and germs must be causing health problems - your body learns to fight stuff when it meets it. The immune system needs to be attacked in order to stay healthy.

And yes - people do need to think about being "clean" on the inside as well as for show... some will go out of their way to bathe twice a day, have beautifully coiffed hair, make up etc... yet eat crap, eat foods which are doing them/the planet etc no good.

So yes, I get the OP - I think a lot of others must too...

I get what the O P is trying to say. It's that a lot of the people on the how often do you bath your children thread make themselves out to be cleaner than everyone else, and quite often people like that overdo the cleanliness bit. All kids need a bit if dirt, grubbiness etc to help their immunity.

How big would the animal be if fed a whole factory farm?