Armpits

[Mrs Pantherfan]

She's 11..the last thing she wants to do is listen to her parents...(this will probably continue until she graduates)...is there an aunt, uncle or one of ya'lls friends that she's close with...maybe they could say something..and embarrass her enough to start wearing it without it happening in school where she'll be forever known as the smelly kid

if not..you've got an extreme hippy on your hands...good luck and get used to the smell of patchouli

[Inimicus]

Holy hell. Its sounds like youve traveled back in time and stolen my daughter!

So then take heart. It took longer than we would have liked but before High School it will become important to her.

[Epistaxis]

Stuff that comes from mom or dad is usually ignored.

Does she have an older cousin, aunt, older playmate, etc. that could be confided in to discuss the matter gently?

Someone she respects and treats with awe/respect?

It will most likely fix itself with a couple more years, but since it annoys you the above mentioned are a possibility.

For our daughter it is grandma.

Grandma can get her to do most anything.

[Hawk]

work up a good sweat...work in the yard, have a run...something...and then bury her face in your pits for a couple minutes

[LifeisaGarden]

I think I'm going to talk to one of her teachers that she really respects and is pretty close to as well. Ms. Nancy should win the teacher of the universe award. People like to say that teachers have a gift, this woman has it. She ranks up there with Jesus as far as making miracles with children happen.

I definitely do not want her to be known as the smelly girl in school. That's bad enough but girls are horrendously known for their bullying ability. i would not want to be known as the parent that went ape poo on some bitch of a girl and probably her mother too.

[LifeisaGarden]

work up a good sweat...work in the yard, have a run...something...and then bury her face in your pits for a couple minutes

I really thought about doing that and not wearing any deodorant but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to tolerate it myself.

I believe that kind of punishment works though...

When she was younger and got bad at throwing a fit in public to try and get what she wanted I started throwing a fit too. You have not seen anything until you've seen a grown woman fall out on the floor in a grocery store screaming and flailing her arms & legs around. That stopped the fits.

Another issue she has now is she hates wearing pants around the house. I believe at 11 yrs old a kid should be wearing pants. So everytime I see her not wearing any I'll take mine off too. She thinks I'm crazy but it works.

[CRA]

At this point it is probably more of a protest.

Just give her the supplies and make sure she has them if she wants them....eventually she will do it on her own......bc eventually she will realize none of the cute boys dig stinky chicks.

[CosmoGirl]

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.

Does she have a close girlfriend who you could get to talk to her about it? I always felt way more comfortable discussing the "girly" stuff with my girlfriends than with my mother. So maybe if you talked to her friend's mother and had friend's mother talk to friend to get her to talk to your daughter...

[Ivan The Awesome]

I shave my armpits. I feel so good.

[Floppin]

Well one of three things here.

She's turning into a dirty hippy and will be forcing you to apply for foodstamps and having lots of hairy unprotected sex leading to tons of late term abortions

She's going to be a stinky bull dyke.

She's just not interested in boys yet and most people don't realize that they smell bad unless it's out of the ordinary for them. She probably doesn't realize that it's really a problem. As her sexual interest rises so will her hygiene consciousness. (This is the most likely scenario, in case you didn't know)

[Scrumtrilescent]

If she ends up a hippie, drown her. In bath water for shits and giggles.

[Crixtala]

hopefully she goes hippie

there's not enough of us

[Hairless Cat]

mix some compost into the pits till theyre loamy

[sunbunny]

I don't remember either of my kids going through this. Keep in mind I may have just forgotten about it, though.

Have you tried buying her that teen deodorant? The one with the glitter and flowers all over the container? That's what my daughter started out with, now she uses whatever she grabs first in the bathroom.