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Wash Your Hands!
Your mother was right!
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July 2000 - Very young children love to wash their hands. For them, it's just another opportunity to play with water. When they get a little older, it's a different story. And just another example of how we parents are somehow able to take what our kids enjoy, and because it's good for them, turn it into something we have to bug them to do. Wash Your Hands, by Tony Ross, published this October by Kane/Miller Book Publishers is a book for children that succeeds where parents often fail -- making hand washing seem both fun, and important.
Whether you are a build-up-their-immunities kind of parent or a quick-sterilize-this kind of parent one thing is indisputable: hand washing helps prevent the spread of disease, can keep kids in school longer by reducing their amount of sick days, and allows us all to live healthier lives. "Healthcare specialists generally cite handwashing as the single most effective way to prevent the transmission of disease," says the Center for Disease Control.
"If we could just teach children to wash their hands after they go to the bathroom or before they eat, it would do a world of good," Ester Brannon, a registered nurse epidemiologist agrees (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 2, 1999). Well, now, with Tony Ross' help, we can.
"The little princess loved getting dirty." What she didn't love was washing her hands. That is, until she heard about the germs and nasties that live "in the dirties ... and on the animals ... and in the sneezes." They look "worse than crocodiles" and are too small to see! Thank goodness for soap. And thank goodness for Tony Ross' Wash Your Hands. An important book. A fun book. A book to keep children in school and in good health.
Kira Lynn
Kane/Miller Book Publishers
858-456-0540
kira@kanemiller.com
http://www.kanemiller.com
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