As I stepped into the wet shower last night, I discovered something that was all too familiar since having children. Broken soap.
What is it with the kids and the soap bars? They LOVE to destroy them! I mean DESTROY! Once, my now-9 year old boy, who was 7 at the time, smeared tiny, broken pieces of soap all over the shower walls. (Oddly, cleaning off the soap 2 days later, when it was all dry, proved difficult.)
My 4-year old girl often leaves her own trail of soap pieces in my bathtub, most a little too large to make it down the drain. So they congregate at the stopper, and wait for the next customer to release them and their film into the next bathfull of water.
Sometimes, when the bar develops a waistline, the children simply break it.
I've also found soap that was just dug out in the middle, or scraped with a fingernail across the length, with the cast-offs left to go to gush on the soapdish.
I remember playing with the soap as a child, and doing similar injustices to the bar. So, I guess I should ignore it. Not charge them the quarter it'll cost to replace the now useless bar. Not scrape it all back together at the next bathtime and mumble, "Try to bathe with this little fella'!" After all, they're really just having good, clean fun. (pun intended)
What is it with the kids and the soap bars? They LOVE to destroy them! I mean DESTROY! Once, my now-9 year old boy, who was 7 at the time, smeared tiny, broken pieces of soap all over the shower walls. (Oddly, cleaning off the soap 2 days later, when it was all dry, proved difficult.)
My 4-year old girl often leaves her own trail of soap pieces in my bathtub, most a little too large to make it down the drain. So they congregate at the stopper, and wait for the next customer to release them and their film into the next bathfull of water.
Sometimes, when the bar develops a waistline, the children simply break it.
I've also found soap that was just dug out in the middle, or scraped with a fingernail across the length, with the cast-offs left to go to gush on the soapdish.
I remember playing with the soap as a child, and doing similar injustices to the bar. So, I guess I should ignore it. Not charge them the quarter it'll cost to replace the now useless bar. Not scrape it all back together at the next bathtime and mumble, "Try to bathe with this little fella'!" After all, they're really just having good, clean fun. (pun intended)
how about a "that's it. no more soap for you. enjoy your own stank and maybe when you scrape crust off the back of your neck you'll think about how we handle our cleaning products!"
ReplyDeletewhat might that do?
at my house my kids would have stopped listening at "that's it."
"stank" doesn't bother kids. they actually prefer not to bathe.
ReplyDeleteI once carved a piece of soap into the shape of a eagle. My dad glued a magnet on the back and put it on the fridge.
ReplyDeleteThat story is true.
Where is little soap eagle now? I wonder...
ReplyDelete1) Children are dirty.
ReplyDelete2) Remember making soap Bibles at VBS? What was THAT about?
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