But I’m aware the last bit might raise a few eyebrows – because my daughter is just seven years old, still plays with dolls and has yet to lose any of her baby teeth.
In fact, I am sure some who read this will be aghast. But I disagree. What sort of mother would I be if I allowed her to be singled out as the smelly child at school?
No sweat: Jessica Valentine has let her
seven-year-old daughter Josie start using deodorant so she will not be
'the smelly child' at school
We’d arrived home from an afternoon playing in the local park with her sisters Sophie, six, and Bella, four, when Josie asked me to take a look at her armpits.
‘They feel wet, Mum,’ she told me. She was right. And when I playfully scooped her up into my arms and gave them a bit of a sniff, I discovered they also smelled of sweat.
I didn’t make a big deal of it and kept the conversation light, pulling a funny face as I told her: ‘Yuk, they smell, we’d better get you some deodorant, but until we do you can use mine.’
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