Washing your hands still remains the number one way to prevent yourself from catching the flu. Surprising, however, is how many people don’t understand this, or worse, don’t know exactly how to wash their hands properly. Your children are never too young to teach them how to properly wash their hands.
TRY THIS:
Step 1: Take your toddler to the sink.
Step 2: Put a dime size dot of anti-bacterial soap in their hands.
Step 3: Show them how to rub their hands together for several minutes before rinsing. (One of the most overlooked critical procedures in teaching children proper hand washing is not rubbing their hands together long enough. TRY THIS: while they are rubbing their hands together, teach them to sing the ABC song.)
Step 4: After rubbing their hands together the entire time they are singing the ABC’s, rinse their hands thoroughly.
With the onslaught of new flu bugs evolving into new and improved viruses, this simple hand washing procedure can save you not only money from saved Dr. visits, but save your family’s health as well!
Take a deep breath, find a baby picture of your pre-teen and let yourself drift back in time to when your pre-teen was a baby! Remember all those warm, fuzzy moments that made you fall madly in love with that child. Forget what’s happening right now…..for the moment. 