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Some say cleanliess is overrated.
When your schedule revolves around a young child, finding time to take care of yourself can be a challenge. With all that feeding, changing, playing and cleaning, something usually has to give. And for many of us, that something is the daily shower.
But if bypassing the bath has you feeling like maybe you should keep your unwashed self at a distance from other adults, relax. You aren’t dirty and smelly. You are trendy!
According to the New York Times, dirty is the new clean. It seems that all kinds of people – not just busy moms – are resisting societal expectations regarding personal hygiene and just saying no to soap and deodorant. And not because they are too busy to bathe. Continue reading »
Have you been slathering yourself and your kids in hand sanitizer this winter? Most of us have. Those little bottles of alcohol-based gel have become ubiquitous. We find them at the grocery store where we go to grab a cart, at the movie theater when we go to grab a seat, near the doorway of any shopping center and installed in every classroom. In all, three quarters of Americans use six or more germ-killing products every day.
There’s good news for those of us who’ve been rolling our eyes at all the literal hand-wringing we’re expected to do over germs these days. According to a new article in Slate, all those products don’t work to stop the spread of colds and flus.
Today, I’m feeling better than ever about letting my kids eat off the floor. That’s because the BBC just informed me that dirt can help kids’ skin heal.
Being too clean can actually make it harder for kids to heal up minor scrapes and cuts, the study found.
The research, done at the School of Medicine in San Diego California, found that normal bacteria typically found on the skin can dampen overactive immune responses and prevent unnecessary swelling. Continue reading »
A midwest school district has said “we get it, kids are getting sick,” and they’re dropping notification calls to parents every time another child is diagnosed with swine flu.
The Wichita school district put out a notification (isn’t that ironic?) to parents last week that they’re calling it quits because the numbers are so high. Continue reading »
Ah, now I know why my “hostessing skills” are off. My parents never sent me to make-over camp.
THANK GOD. Because apparently you can send your ten- to fourteen-year-old daughters to be Stepfordized, er, finished off, at a camp in Montreal this summer. Continue reading »
Quick: Who takes longer showers, men or women?
What bugs parents the most in the bathroom?
Who changes the showerhead (it’s not magic? Just kidding …)
Water Pik, the company that brought you a little pulsating spray teeth-cleaning system that your parents bought back in the ’80s but nobody every really bothered to use, has released the results of its survey of adult bathroom habits.
“Behind the Shower Curtain” answers the above questions and many more you didn’t know you had.
First, shower length. Continue reading »
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