How do you approach a stinky middle school kid or their parents with hygiene suggestions? I don’t know how to politely tell anyone that they smell bad.

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I literally make a general announcement to my kids and say “you’re in middle school, bodies are changing, you’re all smelly...please use some DO for your BO”

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I usually ask the nurse to handle that. Also, ours has free hygiene supplies to accompany the talk.

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I let the counselors deal with that unless I have a good rapport already going.

Have the nurse do a welfare check on him and the nurse will talk to parent and student.

What type of setting is it? When I was student teaching in a day class at the high school we did a mini unit on personal hygiene and the importance of being clean. This was in a class where all students had an IQ below 40, but I think it could work in other settings as well.

Sometimes we address it as a whole group and talk about hygiene but then again I try to be sensitive because I have.had who live in a car and have no choice. I’ve also had the counselor address it privately.

Oh no. We have the conversation every year."Ya'll need to scrub all every crack and crevice EVERY DAY!. You and your smelly bodies are why the temperature is maintained at 68!"

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