Children with filthy nails!

[Shootingstar1115]

Hi all, please don’t hate me on this one. I have two DC, they get grubby playing outside but with regular bathing, cleaning with a nail brush, hand washing, face washes etc they still look clean and hygienic, most of the time anyway 🤣

So the other day DD went to a party, it was in the garden so a lot of children running around bare foot. I couldn’t help notice some children’s finger and toe nails were absolutely filthy. I’m not just talking about a little bit of dirt here. It was thick dirt around the edges of the nails and some of the children’s feet were black with ground in dirt. There is no way they got that dirty at the party so they arrived like it. My own daughters feet were a bit grubby when we left but nothing extreme.

The children in question had their hands in the party food. Then they sat on a blanket outside and all their feet where near each other and their plates of food. It made me cringe.

I just think clean hands and feet are just a basic level of hygiene we should teach our kids?

My kids get fed up of me scrubbing their nails with a nail brush every night 🤣

My middle son often has dirty nails, I'm not going to lose sleep over it tbh. He washes his hands,face and teeth before he leaves for school and same again in the evening. (And hand washes after the loo of course.) However more often than not after the bathroom he heads out back for his scooter, spots something fun and gets distracted for a while and ends up with grubby nails again. Hey ho.

Mine goes to bed every night with clean, spotless nails. 40 mins before bed (i.e before bath) they look as though they have been mining coal with bare hands and the filthiest nails ever.

I think it's a bit of a stretch to assume that several children turned up grubby just because of how grubby they were after playing in the garden. Some children accumulate dirt a lot quicker than others, especially if they like digging in things

My youngest always has dirt under her thumb nail. Just that one! Her nail is also very short so idk ho w this happens? If i were to scrub at it/try and get it out it would hurt like hell. Rest of her nails are fine.

Agree with you op. It's disgusting. I check my sons nails regularly and he's 12! We have a little scrub brush and bar soap and he does his nails in the bath every night. Doesn't take much to keep on top of it.

If anything I'd judge someone who made their kids scrub their hands and nails all the time and made them get a bath every day. Because unless they have literally been rolling in actual shit or mud then it isn't needed. At all. You're just fucking up their skin (& gut) biome.

^This.

DD's toe nails come back black and jagged every time she's been at her dads