So, my daughter is getting ready to turn ten, and as most girls seem to be these days, she is developing in all kinds of ways. So, naturally, she has also become more smelly. Haha, I hate to say it but she has.
The thing is that I am having a hard time getting her really interested in increased personal hygene. I have been looking for some products that are fun but not babyish that maybe she could get excited about.
Any suggestions?!?
I don't have girls, so I'm not up on the latest products for them. I know that Dove has some really nice scents and since they are Dove, they are relatively gentle on sensitive skin.
One thing that a friend and I did with our boys when they reached that stage was talk to them about how the other kids will react to their being smelly. Things like no one would want to sit by them, they would get teased, they'd be remembered for many years to come as being the smelly kid instead of the smart/athletic kid. Things like that. We even went so far as to talk about the kids that we remembered from school as being smelly just to prove that 25-30 years later you still remember the smelly kids.
I have a boy, and so I'm not sure about more feminine tween products either.
To be honest, I was just blunt with my son one day (after subtle encouragements didn't seem to be getting through) by telling him that he needed to start using these products because he smells. I did tell him that I don't want to hurt his feelings, but I thought he needed to know and it would hurt even more coming from his friends instead of me.
I would recommend you talk to her, about the way her friends and especially kids she is not friends with my say stuff that isn't nice. Take her to the aisle at like walmart and let her smell the different scents if she wants. Letting her be more into the choice of what she gets will help a lot!
Go to amazon.com and get her the book The Care of Keeping of Me--It is book put out by American Girl. It is wonderful, I bought this for my dd who is 10 and it took care of everything. It is written in a way she can understand and has pictures to go along. It covers everthing from breast development, your period and choices between tampons and pads, acne......everthing that has to do with puberty. My dd loves this book and refers back to it all the time when something new happens. Deodarant wise, we took her and bought her Degree Girl LOVE--purple container. She loves how it smells and it looks very teenagery. You can get the book on Amazon for as cheap as $4.00. Hope this helps.
But when someone figures out the answer to curing "smelly tween syndrome" let me know!!!
Quoting dizzy21712:Go to amazon.com and get her the book The Care of Keeping of Me--It is book put out by American Girl. It is wonderful, I bought this for my dd who is 10 and it took care of everything. It is written in a way she can understand and has pictures to go along. It covers everthing from breast development, your period and choices between tampons and pads, acne......everthing that has to do with puberty. My dd loves this book and refers back to it all the time when something new happens. Deodarant wise, we took her and bought her Degree Girl LOVE--purple container. She loves how it smells and it looks very teenagery. You can get the book on Amazon for as cheap as $4.00. Hope this helps.
They have lots of fruit scented deodorants, and nifty matching body washes. let her pick her own with a matching puffy scrubby thing.
What is with the sassy mouth?
- smlmama
on Aug. 17, 2012 at 10:06 AM