My children go to summer camp every year with their youth group.  It’s a nice camp and has a shower installed at each tent site.  The newest children in the group are referred to as first years.  The only contact they want with water is the lake.  So we have instituted Wash Up Wednesdays where any child that hasn’t showered yet is required to do so, swimming in the lake is not an acceptable excuse, since no soap/shampoo was involved.  That way; we can truly tell their parents that they took one shower or at least actually entered the shower.  By the end of the week, I’m glad I have no sense of smell.

I remember a parent of a first year coming up to me after camp; they had packed their child a change of clothes for every day of the week and had placed them in plastic bags in daily order in the child’s trunk.  When they picked the child up, the cloths were still in that order and never touched.  The child had basically worn the same cloths all week, even after we made them take a shower.  They were having too much fun to do silly things like change their cloths.  By the end of the week they were Pig Pen from Charlie Brown along with many of their peers.