“Have you had a
shower lately?” “When did you last wash your hair?” “You could grow potatoes
behind those ears if you don’t wash them soon.” - All annoying things that
parents say when they think it time for you to get clean. Well, I am here to
tell you why children should definitely not have a bath or shower every day!
It would be a
great way to save the planet, because we would be saving water, power and less
waste water would be going into the sewerage. If I only had a bath once a
month, then I would not be wasting 29 days worth of electricity heating the hot
water to fill the bath. If I only had a bath once a month, then I would
save 29 days worth of perfectly fresh water that could be used to feed stock. If I only
had a bath once a month, then there only be one day that a bath full of filthy
grey water went into the system, and for the other 29 days there would be none.
If all children
only bathed once or twice a week, then no one would be any smellier that anyone
else. In the old days families only had a bath once a week. They used to fill
up the bath and the father would go first, then the mother and then all of the
children from oldest to youngest.
By the time the
baby had a bath the water was cold and disgusting. That’s why people say,
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. If it was ok back then, surely it
would be ok now. All children smell bad, so if none of us were to bathe every
day then adults wouldn’t be able to tell who stinks the worst, because we would
all stink. There would be no more ‘smelly kid’ in the class because there would
be 20 smelly kids.
Kids are far too
busy to have a bath everyday. We are too busy doing all of the homework that
teachers pile onto us. That takes hours, so there’s not enough time for a bath
or shower. We are also too busy having fun with our friends, playing and
hanging out. We are far too busy running around outside getting sweaty and
muddy - there simply isn’t enough time to be mucking around with a boring old
bath.
If
I only had a bath once a month, then I would save 29 days worth of perfectly
fresh water that could be used to feed stock .All children smell bad, so if
none of us were to bathe you wouldn’t know who smelled worse. We are far too
busy getting dirty to waste our time getting clean. It would be a great
experiment… plants grow in dirt, in fact they can’t grow without it… I say let
the children get as dirty as possible and see how big they grow!
Yesterday we went to our Lawrence Area School Cross Country at Gabriel's Gully. I came 5th in our race. Nick was a little bit in front me though, but I had a FUN TIME.