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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

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

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paddypants · 29/03/2017 22:48

....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!

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Rossigigi · 30/03/2017 07:51

My kids and me bath daily. Only place I use bleach is down the toilet......

maddiemookins16mum · 30/03/2017 07:55

We eat factory farm fed whatevers, bathe daily, use a bit of bleach now and then too......our floors are mopped regularly also.
Get over yourself pet.

KayTee87 · 30/03/2017 07:56

I think people who care how much others wash should get a life...

FrenchLavender · 30/03/2017 08:11

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

Isn't it just? I had to read it twice to understand what her point was.

ThePiglet59 · 30/03/2017 08:19

and I like a nice sausage or bacon butty too.
In fact my weekly shop consists of bleach, bacon and Morrison's value sausages

MyBreadIsEggy · 30/03/2017 08:23

I bath my kids everyday - not because they are dirty everyday, but because a bath has become part of their bedtime routine and they are now both reliably going to sleep at bedtime. I dare not change anything about the routine in case it throws them off
Bkth kids go in the bath together though so I can feel a bit less guilty about wasting water

MyBreadIsEggy · 30/03/2017 08:27

I try to buy better welfare meat, but a lot of the time it's not financially doable for us. I'm lucky in that I live in an area where a lot of hunting goes on, so I can usually get a freshly shot rabbit/pheasant/goose/duck from one of dh's friends if they've been shooting on the weekend. And once a year DH and FIL go up to FIL's in-laws in Scotland and bring home a deer that they've hunted and split the meat between us. Half a good size deer keeps my freezer stocked for a good few months! And it's delicious!

BreatheDeep · 30/03/2017 08:28

FFS one thread about this nonsense is enough. Bathe your kids daily, don't bathe your kids daily. Who actually gives a crap what other people do.

Ecureuil · 30/03/2017 08:30

I don't bath my children daily because I think they're particularly filthy. I bath them because they enjoy it, it kills half an hour before bed and because it relaxes them. I also don't use bleach. WTF is the correlation?

Ecureuil · 30/03/2017 08:30

And I buy organic meat from our local farm... my cousin is gamekeeper there.

PoisonousSmurf · 30/03/2017 08:32

I'm a cleaner and I refuse to use bleach as over the years I've become allergic to it and it makes me feel very ill. Vile stuff!
Makes everything stink like a swimming pool.

Absintheshots · 30/03/2017 08:56

I shower twice a day.
I bath my little ones once a day, BEFORE diner.
The elder ones bath or shower once a day, whether they want it or not.
I use zoflora because it smells nicer.
We keep shoes downstairs because the floor is washable and carpets are a disgusting dust and dirt catcher.

Now OP, please give me your full judgement about my family, I am very interested to hear about it.

MuncheysMummy · 30/03/2017 08:57

Well my little boy (9.5 months) baths every other night and only eats organically and I clean with a mixture of bleach and generic kitchen and bathroom cleaners so I guess I really don't fit anywhere in your assumptions?!

HoldMeCloserTonyDanza · 30/03/2017 08:58

Well, as long as we're all worried and insecure over something I suppose that's the main thing.

MuncheysMummy · 30/03/2017 08:59

Oh to add i only use the bleach on toilets and stubborn patches of mould on the shower grout that seems to pop up over night literally!

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paddypants · 30/03/2017 11:51

Ok, first of all, I don't lose sleep over the cleanliness of other families. Sometimes I bathe the kids every night, sometimes every other. I am neither angry nor defensive but merely interested in how people feel very strongly about how it is unhealthy to not wash daily.

I am not talking about kids bedtime routine or the refreshment one gets from a daily shower - I get that - I am talking about the disgust of some that you might be walking around with a few germs on you for an extra day. Yet, there does not seem to be the same repulsion for the many other ways that people pollute their homes or bodies.

Maybe the bleach was a bad example and nobody really uses that but the excess of cleaning chemicals, synthetic air fresheners, talcum powder, the antibiotics entering our food systems from intensively farmed animals.

I am not saying (and did not previously say) that if you are a daily washer you are an excessive user of chemicals. I don't condemn daily washers. I am a daily washer. I am merely interested in the emphasis people place on one area of personal health whilst ignoring other, more important (in my opinion) areas. That's all

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DaringDating · 30/03/2017 11:53

all this obsession with daily baths is ridiculous. babies smell beautiful, they reall do! they don't all this soap and water every 5 minutes

kimann · 30/03/2017 11:57

?!?! Why would I bathe my kids with bleach? OP - are you ok? Are you in something!? I bleach sinks and toilets - every few days, and (shock horror) sometimes use it to mop!

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paddypants · 30/03/2017 12:15

No Eploded Cloud - have no idea or interest in the correlation between such practices.

I am commenting on the overemphasis placed on one (personal cleanliness) as compared to others whereas all are important to overall health and, in my belief, what you put in your home environment and in and on your body can be a lot more unhealthy than waiting another day to have a bath

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supermoon100 · 30/03/2017 12:24

The germ/dirt obsessesed mumsnetters gang are a zealous lot. There have been many posts devoted to the subject. You will never win this one op!

VladmirsPoutine · 30/03/2017 12:27

I think I get what you are saying but please tell me your line of work is not in drafting legal contracts?

AlmaMartyr · 30/03/2017 12:35

Well, I agree that some people's level of cleanliness on here bothers me because of the environment and toxicity of some cleaning products (people who launder everything all the time, clean everywhere all the time etc). My kids don't get bathed every day but they did when they were smaller as we found it an invaluable way of winding them down for the evening. DH and I are fairly clean, imo, but I know there are plenty of here who would think us disgusting (I sleep naked, for example, and have read threads about how revolting it is). The cleanliness of other people, or their homes, doesn't really bother me.

WaitrosePigeon · 30/03/2017 12:36

You don't make any sense.

supermoon100 · 30/03/2017 12:47

The cleanliness of other people's homes does not bother me either but it the judgement of the clean freaks who deem a less clean lifestyle disgusting, that gets my goat! My dirty unwashed goat at that!

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paddypants · 30/03/2017 12:54

Vladmirs - this is not a legal contract. It's a conversation. Hence style of writing.

There is nothing wrong with being zealous about cleanliness. I just wish people would apply the same zeal to consideration of the ingredients list of one of those sheets you put in a tumble dryer.

But hey, we will all carry on as we do

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