Steps To A Clean Body – Personal Hygiene
October 9, 2009 by Mohamed
Filed under Personal Hygiene, Self Image
If you take a look at my featured posts, I’ve talked about Personal Hygiene in several posts – here is one of them: http://www.lose-weight-feel-great.com/2009/06/10/7-steps-to-personal-hygiene/.
First off these suggestions are NOT limited to adult. Children (yes, children) should also practice personal hygiene — it’s up to parents to help them and teach them. I can’t tell you how often I’ve stood in line at a grocery store to see kids covered in dirt or picking their noses or other parts of their body. PARENTS – WHERE ARE YOU?!?!?! Show some responsibility and leadership and tell your kids what’s acceptable and not acceptable in public.
OK. That aside you can teach hygiene to your kids.
Are you guilty of this:
- Kids come from the pool and their clothes are thrown in with all the others?
- They’ve gone out to play, and you decide to keep the clothes for another day.
- Gone shopping and you figure they are clean enough to be kept with all the other clothes.
Bad, bad, bad. Kids touch everything. Then they wipe their grimy little hands on their clothes. I speak from experience as I have a 6-year old boy and while he’s probably a little sick of us encouraging proper hygiene it pays off: he’s hardly ever sick and he’s learned from a young age what is and is not acceptable.
Why is it WRONG to “re-use” kids clothes when they’ve come from the pool.
Answer – have you seen the floors in the pool? Do you know whether a kid has urinated there or not? The floors are disgusting and lets face it it’s not easy to change a kid in a pool without them having to touch the ground (or their clothes touching the ground). Yuuck. When we come back from swimming, the kids clothes go in the wash AND he gets another bath.
Why is it WRONG to “re-use” kids clothes when they’ve come in from outside.
Answer – it’s dirty outside. Plain and simple. Buy extra shorts/shirts. Once they’re done playing, the clothes should go in the wash - no excuses.
Why is it WRONG to “re-use” kids clothes when they’ve gone shopping.
Answer – it’s dirty outside. Plain and simple. If they sit in the cart – do you know who (or what) was in the cart before them? The carts generally stay outside. You can have all types of bugs or even birds on them. My son is quite tall, so can’t fit into the carts anymore but that doesn’t stop him from touching everything and anything when we go shopping. His clothes go in the wash regardless.
You may think that we’re a little overboard when it comes to cleanliness – and maybe we are but you know what, my kid rarely gets sick and when he does it’s usually something he’s caught from someone at school. He’s got it in his head that he doesn’t want to look or smell so even at 6 takes pride in ensuring that his clothes are clean and when he goes out that he looks “smart” and “handsome”.
You don’t have to go to the extremes that perhaps my wife and I have gone to – but if you start teaching your kids at a young age the steps needed to keep a clean body it will become a habit and they will keep it with them forever.
