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LifeisaGarden

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I need help with convincing my 11 year old to wash her armpits properly and apply deodorant appropriately. I thought only parents with boys has to deal with this issue but the more people I talk to I'm realizing that girls do have this problem as well.

I do not understand how a kid can stand in the shower for 30 minutes(if we let her) and not have enough time to get clean. I have asked her if other kids have picked on her about it or if anyone says anything to her about it and she says no. For her Christmas gift exchange at school they drew names from a hat and the person that bought her a gift gave her a gift certificate for bath & body works, Dan & I cant help but think this was a hint for her but she doesn't get it. We have talked to her about it extensively and even had her look up online what happens if you don't wash & put on deodorant.

We have begged and pleaded, we've yelled, we've bought fancy soaps, bath sponges and deodorants. We've educated her, punished her and made her retake baths. I have even washed her and put the deodorant on her myself which is the only thing that really works but it's humiliating for her, we don't want to scar the kid.

We just don't think she cares and she actually gets a kick out of coming up to you and sticking her armpit in your face. YUK!

Anyway.

Huddle, what should I do?

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That's a tough one... I've had to stay on my 12 y.o. (boy) about making sure to put on deodorant, but with him it's just something he doesn't think about, so I remind him... I suspect the first time a girl tells him he has BO because he forgot his deodorant he'll start remembering...

Sounds to me like she's just being defiant LiaG... hard one to deal with.

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That wont do around here. She still thinks boys are for playing in the dirt with. She's a little bit of a tomboy but girly at the same time. She's not interested in makeup and likes playing Batman Arkham Asylum on PS3. She likes going fishing and playing in the mud but she also loves stuffed animals and getting her nails done.

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i'm not a parent so my advice should be taken as such, but i don't think you should be too worried about it at age 11. that's still grade school right?

once she hits 12 or 13 these things are going to start mattering to her. if she hits 13 and still doesn't get it, then you have a problem.

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She'll be in middle school next year. I'm thinking it will stop if anyone else ever embarrasses her about it which will probably happen eventually. I'm more concerned right now about us having to smell it. I hate smelling it.

If that's the main problem, and it was my kid and it was a choice she was making, she would spend a LOT of time by herself in her room. I think you're right, once one of her peers at school notices, and makes note of it, she'll figure out it's not something that's funny anymore.

My 12 y.o. has issues with chewing food with his mouth open... I give him one warning now, and if he continues, he eats on the outside deck, by himself... that has curtailed that issue pretty quickly.

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