Utah Mother Defends Twice-Weekly Bathing Routine for Six Children

When a Utah mother shared her family's twice-weekly bathing routine on TikTok, she did not expect to be defending herself to eight million strangers. Sharon Johnson's explanation — rooted in desert climate and her children's sensitive skin — became an unlikely mirror for a deeper cultural assumption: that there is one correct way to care for a body, regardless of where that body lives or how it responds to the world. The episode invites a quieter question about how quickly we mistake the familiar for the universal.