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• Hey Kid, You'll Soap Your Eye Out

  So much for good, clean fun. Officials at an Idaho middle school claim they had to remove soap from the boys bathrooms because of vandalism. Apparently, it's better for the boys to enact germ warfare by not washing their hands than it is to have a little soap wars in the bathroom. Read More... Posted May 04 2009, 04:00 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: health, education, schools, hygiene, Jeanne Sager, handwashing, swine flu, soap and water

• Happy World Handwashing Day!

  I’ll admit it – I was super lazy about handwashing before I had a kid. I’d run my hands under water after using the bathroom at work so I didn’t look like a skank, but lathering up just seemed like too much trouble. Until I had kids and the hormones and general new-mom paranoia had me lathering up constantly — after diaper changes, sure, but before nursing, after wiping noses, etc. I always had my little bottle of Purell for out and about excursions as well. I’ve chilled somewhat, but notice a big correlation between my enforcing frequent handwashing and everybody staying well. And I can tell my husband (who definitely thinks I’ve gone germophobe) that I’ve got UNICEF on my side. They’ve declared today World Handwashing Day.  Read More... Posted Oct 15 2008, 04:34 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: the wiggles, Unicef, hygiene, diarrhea, pnuemonia, World Handwashing Day, handwashing