Any advice on how to discuss with my middle schoolers the fact that some of them need to bathe more? Teachers have come in making complaints and want me to talk to them - which i have no problem with, but how to bring it up when a student is sent to my office for an unknown reason (from their perspective). I know this is a very sensitive age so i need to choose my words carefully.
Aslo - yuck - dirty hair/ ears and tympanic thermomertry!! Those kids i'll sometimes just bluntly ask when the last time they washed their hair was... do you think a similar approach - cut and dry - is appropriate? Or do i need to break out the kid glocves here?