The left asks, do kids really need a bath every day? – IOTW Report

The left asks, do kids really need a bath every day?

The left doesn’t like to bathe their kids more than once a week because glitter and makeup is getting so damn expensive.

29 Comments on The left asks, do kids really need a bath every day?

  1. The frequency is not that important. What is important is rotating the order in which you bathe them. After about three kids the bath water really isn’t very effective, or pleasant to the nose.

  2. I do remember when I was a child, I would have advocated this approach in a heartbeat! … but, I grew up

    today, I find myself in a constant battle w/ those in the socialist progtardosphere that are locked in permanent arrested development … the adults are still this day battling w/ the children

  3. I grew up on a coastal estuary island, hi top Chucks were de rigueur, the sticky stinky marsh mud would pull anything else off your feet. You never wore them out or outgrew them, they rotted on the back porch.
    Many days I would strip and get hosed off in the yard.
    Once a week a real bath, Saturday night for Sunday school and church. Started bathing regularly about the same time girls were no longer icky.
    At least we had a tub and hot running water, had an aunt who had to pump the water by hand, heat it on the stove and bathe in a wash tub on the back porch.
    Can still hear my baby sister: “I am NOT taking a bath in a bucket !”

  4. 6- 11 once a freaking week? When my son was that age he’d be so dirty the thought of putting him iii his clean bed gave me hives. I get that we shouldn’t over wash and rub away good bacteria, but what they are saying is just disgusting.

  5. Good grief. The left makes the outside smell like an outhouse by making it legal to crap on public streets. And now their next move is to stink up the inside spaces by advocating bathing only during the new moon. I suppose they only wash their clothes once each quarter too. Why wear out your clothes by over washing them?

  6. Meh. I know my toddler didn’t take a bath every day. Grade school, probably 3X’s a week. Middle school, 4-5X’s a week. High school, every day.

    It’s true, immune systems need the work out when kids are little. I think that’s why there is so many allergies in the young today.

  7. The stinking filthy Goddamned progs in Seattle & Portland have taken to outfitting their fleabag offspring in pants that have the crotch cut out and they don’t put diapers on them either and just let them shit and piss anywhere they please.

    I was in a bookstore and one took a shit on the carpet and people were tracking it all through the store.

  8. AA-
    Your preferences are your own, which is great.
    But your preferences don’t become policy.
    That is why articles like this from the left piss me off.
    It’s a trial balloon towards limiting water use.

  9. “It’s a trial balloon towards limiting water use.”

    Exactly, and the communes smoked a bowl of Hash and started it back in the early 70’s. Fxck these people. Most toddlers poop a LOT. And don’t do a very good job cleaning up. Got nothing to do with their immune system.

  10. When I was a kid (in prehistoric times) the old “Saturday night bath” was still a thing, but mostly among rural folks. Everyone else had moved on to the more civilized practice of bathing about twice a week, which was deemed sufficient unless you had done something to get really dirty or smelly. In between, sponge baths (see below link) involving mostly armpits and such filled in. Daily bathing was considered to be pretentious and unnecessary. Only rich people and Hollywood stars took a bath every single day of the week.

    https://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/sponge-bath-zmaz81mazraw

  11. Vietvet

    Yea well, my home is 4800 square feet. A new home when I moved in 10 years ago. About the life expectancy of a tanked hot water heater. And sure enough. So we decide to look at Tankless water heaters. There’s not a lot of good data on these things so that took a while. Bottom line we warmed water in a big pot for a couple weeks while trying to figure it out. To this day I can’t appreciate hot water enough. And we went with a the old tanked water heater. Now I’m learning that might have been a mistake.

  12. @Bad_Brad: I live in a relatively small house (a little more than half of yours in square footage). The cheapskate I bought it from had put in a 25 gallon water heater). I was always running out of hot water. When it went out, I bought a 40-gallon heater. Much better. When I remodeled, they were supposed to replace it, but instead put in a 50-gallon model. I never said a word.

    As far as I am concerned, you can’t have enough hot water.

    P.S. – What’s a tankless water heater?

  13. Vietvet
    Forgot to say, plumbers wanted more money to install that 80 gallon water heater than I paid for the the water heater. Well shit, I can sweat copper with the best. But fucked up a fore are muscle lifting that bitch into a confined space. That was a couple months ago. The hot water is awesome. The forearm is still fxcked up. It’s a bitch getting old my friend.

  14. @Bad_Brad: What I really should have asked is “How the hell does a tankless water heater work?” No matter – I Googled it and found out. Only question is, what if your power, water, and or gas goes out during a hurricane or other disaster? With a tanked heater you have hot water for a while, and cold water after that (at least for a while).

    P.S. – IMHO, you shoulda paid the plumbers to fug up their forearms instead of yours. When you get to be my age you’ll thank yourself for doing that every chance you get, because (as you say) it’s a bitch getting old. And it only gets worse.

    But it still beats the alternative.

    🙂

  15. @Fur — Ok. got it. Didn’t realize that was the point of the article ’cause everyone was talking about their own kid’s habits, not water use.

    I think they already got us on the cost of water and (worse) the cost of “sewer” as in our Sewer/Water/Garbage bills — at least here in Seattle. Not only do we pay for our legit sewage, but they charge us for the rainwater runoff, too. Naturally, we are charged a hefty increase in the summer. This all started back in the early 90’s after most of Orange county moved here.

  16. BB — “Most toddlers take a poop…..”

    LOL! That’s what Wet Wipes are for, silly. Don’t need to put the kid in the shower just to teach them how to wipe! Never had to pretreat anyone’s little underwear around here 🙂

  17. BB — Looking for an 1800 SQ home, not in California?

    Airstream, baby!! We went to the RV show last weekend to look at some getaway vehicles. Going to chuck all the stuff, pack up the trailer/RV/Motor home/5th wheel (haven’t decided which, yet) and take to the open road less traveled. We’re getting out of Leftist Town!

  18. Yo,
    1 BTU raises the temperature of one pound of water 1 degree F.
    If you like really hot water, go with the tank.
    If you can live with tepid water, go tankless.
    A tank (42 gal at 7.5 lbs/gal) is 315 lbs of water. To raise the temp from 45 (I’m on a well) to 140 takes 29,925 BTUs or 7.15 kW-h. Want that in a hurry?

    Just a thought.

    izlamo delenda est …

  19. @Tim,

    You just confirmed my belief that tanked is the way to go. If I can’t get water so hot that I have to mix some cold water in to avoid blisters, it ain’t hot water.

    P.S. – I blame it on the unheated showers I had to take when I was in the ‘Nam. Freeze the gonads off of a copper and zinc alloy primate, they would.

    🙂

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