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
Anyone else feel like their kids are NEVER clean?
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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.
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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.
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My 2.5 still wears a bib for meal times! She's pretty messy!
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.
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Same here! Just glad to not be alone, lol.
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Yeah, I don't know what to do differently. Grass stains, paint, food stains, you name it...it's on my kid's clothes!
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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.
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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.
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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.
The baby (11 months) often has boogers and so much drool. So much drool. He loves to smoosh food like avocado in his hair.
Cutting their nails is a whole other challenge...
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@Alba4: yes to the nails! And my girls love to eat frozen blueberries which stain everything so they look extra dirty
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@lamariniere: Yes, this! Why won't they wipe her face?!?
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.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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
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. -
My son still wears a pocket bib and he's 2.75. He asks for t so we go with it!
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.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!
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Yep. Both of mine are a mess all the time. 🤦♀️
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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.
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@Mrs. Sunshine: Yes, all of this, every word. LOL. I am forever asking my son how he can manage to spill crackers. Sigh.
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@lamariniere: Oh, a package of wipes lives in the car!!! Crusty pasta sauce somewhere on his face daily at daycare pick up.
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@Littlebit7: This made me LOL!!
anything with white or light coloured basically has a one time wear.
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