r/stepparents • u/Kitchen-Country-39 • 1d ago
Win! MIL told SKs they stink 🤣
MIL got SKs cologne and perfume for Christmas. She said “I got you something to cover up the stink. You’re at an age where you can’t shower enough”.
I’m rolling 🤣 I know that sounds really mean, but SKs DO stink and DH doesn’t enforce proper hygiene. I don’t think this will change the SKs or DH, but at least I’m not the only one acknowledging there’s an issue 😅
The only downside is that the SKs will pour the entire dang bottle on themselves, even though MIL reminded them that a little bit goes a long way, and that’s a whole other stink.
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u/star_angel66 1d ago
My SK got cologne from his mom for Christmas... I don't even know what kind it is becuase he didn't even bring it over... He put it on over 3 days ago before he got here... And I still smell it as I type right now... From his coat all the way across the room... I can't get rid of this smell in my house....
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u/YoshiSunshine14 1d ago
I think it must be an age thing. My SK is going through an anti shower phase right now. We have two options…
- Take a shower when we say you need to.
- Don’t take a shower and have everyone at school make fun of you for smelling bad.
I don’t know why showering and having good hygiene has to be a fight every single day. SK got a lot of BBW body sprays for Christmas… so I expect my house to smell like that for a while now.
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u/overflowingsandwich 1d ago
Yeah it’s super common, and can have a variety of reasons. Teenagers are generally lazier than a lot of other ages and just find hygiene boring. Some don’t want to shower purely to piss off their parents because they’re at an age where they want to assert independence but are still immature so they do it in stupid ways (or sometimes dangerous). A lot it’s bc parents don’t properly teach just how important it is and then puberty is a time when people become smellier due to hormone changes and stuff.
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u/YoshiSunshine14 1d ago
I get that. We have taught proper hygiene in our household. I think with my SD it’s just to piss us off. She is very open about the fact that she also does it at her mom’s house… She is constantly mad that she is losing privileges for fighting showers. I don’t know. I feel like the reasonable thing to do is just hop in the shower and take 10 minutes to wash yourself. I don’t know why it is so hard for my SK right now. We have explained to her that she spends more time fighting it every time than she would take in the shower, but that doesn’t seem to matter. 😵💫
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u/overflowingsandwich 1d ago
Teenagers are weird as hell honestly, and they’re often completely irrational.
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u/Smashingistrashing 1d ago
When my SS was in that age we had a lighthearted conversation about not wanting to be known as the stinky kid at school and how that could be a life long nickname (our last name rhymes with smelly too) and went over head to toe hygiene and laundry/bedding stuff. We butt heads on everything else but he cleans his stuff lol.
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u/rustymontenegro 1d ago
We tried that. Never worked. Older one is 21 now and still doesn't wear deodorant or wash his hair properly.
Younger one is fine. Definitely needs to shave though... He's got a wispy dirt mustache and patchy goatee going
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u/Inconceivable76 1d ago
God bless your MIL.
Her child is being lazy with his parents. Good on mom for calling it out.
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u/Curious_Homework_378 1d ago
SS10 comes to our home every Friday night STINKING, his hair his pits just everything, he’s at an age where he needs to use deodorant and shower daily and he’s obviously not. When he’s with us we have him shower daily, it’s never a fight but we tell him he needs to stay on top of his hygiene or he’s going to be that smelly kid in class. I shower my 2 year old every night because he even smells at the end of the day!
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u/Gone_Cold2024 1d ago
Triggering memories of my boys when they were in middle school and I seemed to always have a van full middle school boys smelling like BO and Axe Body Spray🤭🤭
I like your MIL BTW😂😂
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u/savannahhambane 1d ago
Love it! SK12 refuses to shower, it’s a constant battle. I say let him be the smelly kid and jr. high classmates will make sure he knows.
he’ll try to come in our room to use my SOs (expensive!) cologne instead of showering. I had to lay it out for SO that I picked that for you because I think it smells sexy on him. SK using it is just making it gross to me now and I want nothing to do with SO when he wears it.
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