https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 23 May 2026 10:48:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740335 Thu, 25 May 2017 16:50:43 +0000 wrkbrk 2740335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Littlebit7: This made me LOL!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740334 Thu, 25 May 2017 16:50:33 +0000 wrkbrk 2740334@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: Oh, a package of wipes lives in the car!!! Crusty pasta sauce somewhere on his face daily at daycare pick up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740331 Thu, 25 May 2017 16:48:13 +0000 wrkbrk 2740331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sunshine: Yes, all of this, every word. LOL. I am forever asking my son how he can manage to spill crackers. Sigh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740320 Thu, 25 May 2017 16:32:06 +0000 youboots 2740320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>T looks like the very definition of a grungy toddler. I have to work pretty hard to get her looking presentable. But I think part of it is that she always has food on her face and that she constantly looks like she needs a haircut because her hair grows so fast. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740268 Thu, 25 May 2017 15:35:36 +0000 Mrs. Lion 2740268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. Both of mine are a mess all the time. 🤦🏽‍♀️ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740267 Thu, 25 May 2017 15:33:25 +0000 SweetiePie 2740267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son still wears a pocket bib and he's 2.75. He asks for t so we go with it!<br /> If he's eating something super messy like soup or red sauce I put a kitchen towel on his lap and tuck it around him, legs to waist so it layers under his bib. He also still insists on the highchair 95% of the time so I think that helps. </p> <p>Now school is another story. They try to get the kids to wear a smock for art but they don't make them. So he'll usually come home with paint or glue or something smeared all over him, shirt, pants, even shoes. So I learned quickly that he doesn't wear anything nicer than Old Navy for school. And TBH their stuff is super cute lately so I don't even care! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740263 Thu, 25 May 2017 15:26:18 +0000 Littlebit7 2740263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. My 2 yo always looks like a walking disaster. I have become a pro and removing stains. As in, I should get an honorary PhD.<br /> I've started stripping her shirt off for lunch and dinner if possible. She has reallllly long hair that doesn't all go into a pony (lots of wispies around her face) so they are all coated in food as well<br /> It's quite a contrast; she looks like a literal angel (strawberry blonde hair and ice blue eyes) but an angel that has been digging through the garbage can. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740233 Thu, 25 May 2017 15:00:58 +0000 Mrs.Pinecone316 2740233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2 year old is pretty clean food wise. She is like me and does't like dirty hands and always asks to have them wiped when she is done eating etc. But we have a large wooded yard and the mud/dirt is our issue. We have red clay dirt and it stains like crazy. White clothes are hopeless. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740229 Thu, 25 May 2017 14:58:44 +0000 caterw 2740229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alba4: my kiddo used to use herself as a tissue/ napkin all the time. I got a box of tissues and put it on her head every time she wiped her nose on her shirt and said "You can't be a tissue- you don't fit in the box!". Boogers are the one thing I absolutely cannot stand as far as messy kid goes- so so nasty. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740227 Thu, 25 May 2017 14:57:19 +0000 caterw 2740227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My kid is 3.5 and still wears a bib! She didn't today for lunch and I'm pretty sure she ruined a shirt with red pepper hummus... Her favorite game is "mud pies" too hahaha. Oh well. I don't really care if she is dirty because she is just three. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740221 Thu, 25 May 2017 14:49:55 +0000 Rocker2014 2740221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lamariniere: Yes, this! Why won't they wipe her face?!? </p> <p>My 2.5 year old is a way messier eater now than she was as a baby - we didn't use bibs then but I just went out and bought some bigger ones for her to use now. She's developed a love for "painting" with her food. On everything. :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740189 Thu, 25 May 2017 14:19:01 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2740189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Alba4: yes to the nails! And my girls love to eat frozen blueberries which stain everything so they look extra dirty 😜 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740184 Thu, 25 May 2017 14:17:49 +0000 Alba4 2740184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My boys are gross and I try extremely hard to keep them well-groomed and presentable. My older DS had the T-shirt issue (stains/drool/food all over) until he was 3. I am now trying to train him to not wipe his dirty hands on his pants.</p> <p>The baby (11 months) often has boogers and so much drool. So much drool. He loves to smoosh food like avocado in his hair.</p> <p>Cutting their nails is a whole other challenge... :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740176 Thu, 25 May 2017 14:05:18 +0000 lamariniere 2740176@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is why I only buy cheap or second hand clothes these days for my younger LO. But what makes me crazy is that daycare does not clean her face after lunch or if she's had a really snotty nose day. When I pick her up she'll have dried tomato sauce and crusted snot on her face, and if I don't have any wipes on me then she stays like that while we pickup my older LO and run errands. Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740162 Thu, 25 May 2017 13:52:19 +0000 catgirl 2740162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just wanted to add, this is why almost all of DD's clothes are from target, kohls, or old navy. She destroys clothes and I do not want to be attached to expensive pieces. As long as she is not deliberately destroying her clothes I try to roll with it. I want her to have fun and sometimes that means getting messy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740149 Thu, 25 May 2017 13:41:25 +0000 looch 2740149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, I don't know what to do differently. Grass stains, paint, food stains, you name it...it's on my kid's clothes! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740146 Thu, 25 May 2017 13:40:01 +0000 tlynne 2740146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same here! Just glad to not be alone, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740116 Thu, 25 May 2017 13:14:58 +0000 snowjewelz 2740116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 2.5 still wears a bib for meal times! She's pretty messy! </p> <p>I just don't have expectations for her clothes, haha! I try to take off and spray right away if we're at home but usually her school clothes have been stained for hours already. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740099 Thu, 25 May 2017 12:55:45 +0000 catgirl 2740099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is why even though my kid is 2.5 she wears a bib whenever she has food, even an easy snack. And a smock for any art project other than crayons. We also avoid white or very light fabric. She is a total mess. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740096 Thu, 25 May 2017 12:53:33 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2740096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, this is one of my parenting issues lately. Seriously with just the goldfish or a granola bar! And even when I stain treat and soak it in a bucket stuff it doesn't come out. :( anything with white or light coloured basically has a one time wear. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/keeping-kids-clean#post-2740080 Thu, 25 May 2017 12:38:19 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2740080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I cannot keep my two year old clean to save my life. Every shirt she wears has to be stain treated. I can give her goldfish crackers and she will some how end up with an orange stain on her shirt. I feel like people think I don't wash her! lol<br /> Anyone else feel like their kids are NEVER clean? </p>