Washing your hands is important for the health of the whole family. Because with our hands we prepare food that we then eat, and children also usually eat using their hands frequently.
However, although it is a habit acquired by me and that I do unconsciously before and after cooking, before eating and in other situations, I recognize that my oldest daughter forgets to wash her hands on occasion, and she doesn't remember it either.
Sometime in the middle of the meal, when I realize that you are "devouring" a piece of bread or fruit at full hands, we have had to get up to wash them. I insist that you have to remember, but I know that it is my job to acquire that custom.
He usually tells me before eating, in fact I have to "stop" many times because he loves to wash his hands with soap, on any occasion. We have already practiced a lot about the best way to wash your hands.
And I usually remember, and I either help her wash them or she does it alone, but when we forget, I can't avoid this remorse of "why am I so careless?" And they also swarm in my mind all the possible risks of having eaten with dirty hands.
As if that were not enough, I remember WHO's list of situations in which one should wash one's hands:
- Before handling food and often during its preparation
- Before eating
- After going to the bathroom
- After handling red meat or raw poultry
- After changing a baby's diaper
- After blowing your nose
- After touching garbage
- After handling chemical substances (including those used to clean)
- After playing with pets
- After smoking
And although children are not exposed to many of these situations, their parents are. Then I wonder, with one more prick of remorse ... How am I going to remember to always wash their hands if I don't remember doing it many times myself?
