How to beat a smell

puppypants

I thought all boys rooms were smelly! xx

Wicked_witch

I'm quite sure hormones have a smell. My son's room is just starting to smell normal again after the years of puberty.

I can still recall the smell that used to appear in the computer labs at work (uni mentor), literally 200 18/19 year old male engineering students all packed together... and all still getting used to the idea that Mum was no longer there to wash their clothes or badger them to shower. Torture.

brunettifan

Gym bags can retain odours and/or a stray unwashed item in there, or the knee pads can be awfully smelly.

peachyprice

There's nothing strange, or unique about it. Teenage boy's rooms smell. It's already been suggested what it is, please don't keep pestering him about it, you'll make him feel self concious and that what he does in the privacy of his own room is dirty and wrong It's not, it's a natural part of him growing up and learning about his own body.

Just change the sheets regularly and open the windows each morning, he'll soon grow out of it when his hormones settle down. In the meantine just let him be a normal teenager, it sounds like he's had a hell of a life already.

kjmtidea

Scrapaholic wrote: »

Our Dgs used to do ice hockey and after a match the smell of his kit, the pads etc was absolutely rank . That was just with sweat from a 9 year old who hadn't hit puberty . Maybe there is something that you can't see festering away . If you believe the tv ads a good spraying of febreeze will cure all smells . There's quite a rare condition where a person can smell of fish but you'd probably know if that was the smell .

This! My sons taekwondo kit smells horrendous over time, I was actually beginning to think that something had died in their room :rotfl:.

jules-2005

I have this same problem with my teenage son but the room smells even worse than normal if he has had garlic

spirit

Bicarbonate of soda is good for absorbing smells. Sprinkled liberally on carpets, brushed in, left for a bit then hoover.

Also stuff some teabags in shoes when not being worn to get rid of smells.

couponqueen123

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

Like I say I have never had children. I like having him around too. Today he made me breakfast. He spent Christmas at his parents and said this morning I really missed it here Auntie!

The problems he had a home really took a toll on his behaviour and he totally came off the rails. Maybe I am more stricter than his Mum and Dad!

i would say he knows that you are no push over and he wont come to any harm if he listens;)

also i bet he missed you , what you have achieved is amazing and dnt for get you achieved it , he listens to you cause he respects you id imagine too best of futcher luck

Mupette

Not sure watch i was watching last night but apparently Joop the deodorant /spray can mask the smell of men's deposits

Person_one

Mupette wrote: »

Not sure watch i was watching last night but apparently Joop the deodorant /spray can mask the smell of men's deposits

I saw that on something too! Was it Charlie brooker? No, can't remember.

OP, there isn't a 14 year old alive who doesn't masturbate, male or female. The smell is probably in the mattress. Get him a new one, tell him why, put a box of tissues in his room and then never mention it again.