How clean are your kids?

[VoluptuaGoodshag]

I mean day to day. Right now DD is wearing a top that got covered in paint at Playgroup and has been sliding down her chute in the garden after the rain so the backside of her trousers is dirty. DS is also covered in dirt. I don't mind at all as I think it's healthy for them to be out playing and it's all part of being a child. We're only in the house for the rest of the day anyway and I'd change DD's top if I was going anywhere but my Mum would be aghast at this. I remember when I was a kid she hated me playing with the boy next door because we would both come in filthy however I always remember this as being the most fun. They get a bath most nights although have been known to skip this if they are relatively clean and time is short

my 5 year old is usually covered in chalk from drawing on his blackboard, he doesn't like to get his hands dirty though.

Ds is usually ok, but dd is usually filthy. She has a knack for making mud pies, playing in sand, all sorts, she loves to be pretty, but in a grimy sort of way! We call her urchin girl.

VGS...you sound like a girl after my own heart... Yeah, if we go out I like them to be reasonable clean, but other then that...not bothereed!

scruffy kids a happy kid!

Mine are obsessed with mud pies, flower soup etc so are generally quite grubby. They quite often have food smeared across cheeks etc too.

I don't mind but sometimes the mud encrusted limbs and clothes can get a bit much and I have to carry them one at a time upstairs to hose them down. They have a bath every other night - more often if really bad.

I think its my youngest under all that dirt on his face, although once i have washed him i might find i have brought the wrong boy home from school

Fairly grubby but happy, we hose her down about 3-4 times a week.

Mine have a bath twice a week tops and hair gets washed once a week.

My dd looks like she's been brought up in the compost heap some days - but she's happy! She has a bath and hair wash every night, even if it's just a quick splosh, settles her for bed.
She loves playing in our big garden, collecting twigs, acorns, feathers and such. It's all part of growing up, what magical memories are made of rather than a TV screen or computer monitor.
Getting down and dirty is what childhood is all about sometimes, I feel sad for those children whose parents won't allow mess or dirt whether it be from painting, sticking, chalking, digging in the garden etc.
In a nutshell ? I wouldn't be worried about it as long as they start each day clean, wash their hands before touching food etc. ( you never know what germs are lurking in the garden)

Clean children are unnatural. Mine always have food splodges/mud/grey bits/worryingly dark finger nails.

My dd is usually filthy - a sign of a happk kid free to explore her surroundings

Filthy constantly

I've given up trying but my mum hasn't

I have a 5yr old boy. Dirt comes along where ever he is!!! As my Mum says "it would be worse if he couldn;t get himself dirty".

Bath most nights. Hair twice a week.

Mine are proper urchins.

Lottie bum shuffles and uses her hand to help speed her along, so hands always grubbu and then she wipes her face, pushes hair back and her face is always gruby.
She loves to feel the food on her face as well so with a yoghurt she'll rub the back of the spoon round and round over her lips and quite often has a bit of yoghurt somewhere.

DD2, crawling so same thign with the hands. Add to that those bits of drrol / baby sick, and the fact she loves to rub her face into things, and you have one grubby sticky babyy!

oh and I never really remember or can be bothered to worry about bibs. I do sometimes but usualy not so they have little splashes of lunch down them.

I love it. If my kids remain clean then something has gone wrong with the day.

DS and DD always seem to be dirty and messy.

Even just after they've had a bath .

Gosh TC - can't belive DD2 is crawling!!!

One of the first threads I read on MN was your "pregnant on D@" thread and telling DH - I bawled!!!

Generally got something in their hair. They are all very blonde and ketchup etc is very obvious but you don't want to wash it every day.
I like em grubby shows they've had fun imo.

Budababe - LOL - not only is she crawling, she's cruising, climbing whole flights of staris, standing unaided in the middle of the room, and when you hold her hands she does really big high steps and is off!

My 17m DS and 5yr old DS,are both muck magnets, they could both get dirty in a white room. {smile}

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I've seen (at my mum's insistence when I was pregnant) severla episodes of HTT and similar where the parents are so nervous and uptight at the kids being messy that the kids end up stressed about it at a very early age.

But my ds in a sterile clean room, blink and he'd be a mess again. I like it. Its normal. Just bag fulls of washing to do

At least I know he's having fun and our shower is by the back door for when he gets really really messy

My kids are usually filthy within minutes of dressing and so am I

It makes me laugh how I take Lottie out of the house all clean and neat ready for school and as I take her out of her seat I think 'wtf??' The hair is like the wild woman of borneo, she's regurgatated some toast crumbs which are all round her mouth, she's picked something up or scraped it off the bottom of her shoe and is sort of stroking it around the inside of her fingers!

And by the time I pick her up - LOL. She's quite often in the school's spare clothes!!!!

Oh - and don't talk to me about the state of her fingernails somedays

And as I lovingly go to stroke her hair and then realise it's all stuck together!

My dd (4) has OCD (I'm sure of it!) She can't stand anything untoward on her hands, clothes, face or hair. She completely freaks out. And if there's a sand pit she can't stand the feel of it on her feet. I sometimes wonder why I bath her at all.