I live in Colorado. It snows here a lot and the playgrounds are muddy a lot. If you have small children, you know that that means muddy feet, hands, and everything else tracked all over your home or classroom. At school you can multiply that by at least twenty per classroom. This is a messy situation! Don’t get me wrong, we want the kids to play, we just want to have a way to keep the dirt outside. The kids come in to the classroom after recess, and the room is transformed; muddy footprints all over the floor, muddy hand prints on the walls, chalk boards, even other kids’ clothes! What I would love would be a way to clean the kids up before they enter the classroom. Recently I saw an ad for a portable sink. Of course! Why not have a few of these sinks in each classroom so that the kids could wash up before they come back to class? Not only would it save the room from destruction, it would be a great learning tool. I could really instill and reinforce the idea of proper hygiene. Good habits need to be instilled while the children are young, so that they will be automatic by the time they reach adulthood. Studies have shown that an appalling number of adults do not wash their hands enough. Over half of adults do not wash their hands after using public bathrooms! So, something needs to change. Let’s find ways to show our kids how important hand washing is.
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