Deodorant for a Third Grader?????

[my2boyzrock]

DD9 doesn't really need it, but he uses it because all of his friends are using it.

 

[SandraVB79]

My little stink bomb was 5 when I discovered she needed it....unfortunately, we were in a line for Splash Mountain, early September, inside...so I'm sure quite a few other poor folks discovered it too

Don't worry about it.
There are dozens of adults there who haven't discovered the need for or the existing of deodorant at WDW!

 

[RitaZ.]

Don't worry about it.
There are dozens of adults there who haven't discovered the need for or the existing of deodorant at WDW!

Add shampoo to the list!

 

[piglet too]

I do not recall how old my oldest DS was when he started to need it, but my DS who is in 3rd grade now is just starting to need it.

 

[Todd&Copper]

You were 9 in second grade???

Sorry, I mean to type 8. And I turned 8 during the school year. We couldn't start Kindergarten until we were 5 in my school district, so I was
5 then 6 in K
6 then 7 in 1st
7 then 8 in 2nd
and so on.
But I did need DO by the end of second grade. I remember some other kids saying they smelled baby powder at my lunch table, and I knew it was my DO they were smelling. No one wore perfume in the class save the teacher, so I think I said I dropped some baby powder in my shoe by accident that morning. I was terribly embarassed.

 

[froglady]

Could you quote that source, please? That sounds like "junk science" to me. The human body doesn't mark off just a few areas to perspire - in fact, I'm not sure the body purges anything through the sweat glands. I know a moist area of the body is a good place for bacteria to grow, but I'm not sure I buy the purging toxins theory.

You mean you didn't get that email? It was the one that also links them to breast cancer. (That part was edited out )

 

[PlutosFriend]

Add shampoo to the list!

Ewww! I can smell dirty hair from a distance
It's really not that hard to shower on a regular basis and wash the hair too!
It must be for some tho?

 

[Bunchkin]

DD stared using deodorant in 2nd grade, more for the sticky pit thing than the smell. The smell came later!

And my almost 6 yr old DS has sticky pits too. No smell though. So I'm thinking he may need to start using it soon too.

 

[DVCLiz]

You mean you didn't get that email? It was the one that also links them to breast cancer. (That part was edited out )

I must have missed it - too busy responding to a friend in Nigeria who has a great deal for me....

 

[Castlebound]

My DD is in 2nd grade and is 8yr old. Last summer she went to hug DH and he got to figure out that she needed deodorant! I was suprised since our 10yr old DS did not stink. The next day the kids and I went to the store and they both picked out deodorant. I figured that DS might as well start using it also.

 

[NotUrsula]

Ewww! I can smell dirty hair from a distance
It's really not that hard to shower on a regular basis and wash the hair too!
It must be for some tho?

This is where early puberty has decided to strike for my poor DS10. He doesn't need deodorant for his body at all, but his hair It REEKS. I make the poor kid scrub it every night with the strongest antiseptic shampoo I could find, and it still smells horribly by the time he gets out of school the following afternoon. It's such a grease factory that he's developing acne under his hair.

I have a bad feeling that he got this from me. I've always had a really oily scalp and I cannot go without washing my hair every morning, otherwise it's really limp and stringy, and my scalp itches, too. It never really stank that I remember, but then I'm female. This situation is complicated by the fact that he inherited DH's really thick hair -- it takes two rounds of shampoo to get all the oil out, it's like trying to wash a duck. The first round of shampoo barely breaks through the surface oil. Poor kid.

 

[jordansmomma]

My DS7, does whatever his brother does. He started wearing it just a few weeks ago. He's not smelly but he feels better about wearing it, in case he sweats during kickball or something..

 

[MosMom]

My daughter is 10 in 3rd grade and we just started using deoderant. She missed the cutoff by a month or so and then was held back in 1st grade.

 

[Cool-Beans]

There was a girl in my fourth grade class who stunk to high heaven. Many kids made fun of her behind her back and some to her face.

She lived down the street and I was at her house one day and I asked her if she thought I smelled, did I need to put on more deodorant (this is a clever way of bringing it up when you're a 4th grade doofus.) She said that I didn't smell and that she didn't wear deodorant, her mom said kids our age didn't need it.

That poor girl. She started wearing it that summer, but kids kept saying she smelled all through 8th grade. It was no longer true, of course, but it was the cool thing to say about her.