Cleanliness is next to Godliness is a common saying, but permit me to add my own voice by saying that a clean child is a healthy child and a healthy child is a happy child. Since we all want happy children, we as parents, guardiands and child-care givers have a collective responsibilty to teach our children very early on life on the need and importance of cleanliness and maintaining a personal hygiene. In order to acheive this, parents, teachers, guardians and care givers must inculcate very core hygiene patterns into young children in order for them protect themselves from germs, air-borne and water-borne diseases and other illness arising from dirtiness and a poor body and evirionmental hygiene level. Some of these first hygenic training to be taught early to every child are as follows but are not limited to these (you can add more as the need arises daily):
1. Having a daily bath at least twice a day (as well after getting dirty during outside play). This makes sure the child is taught that washing up his/her body at least twice every single day helps to stayu neat, clean and of course healthy.
2. Observing oral hygiene by brushing one's mouth (tongue and teeth) at least twice daily whilst having a bath is also as essntial as No. 1 above. This procedure can also be obeserved after the child takes foods that may upset the child's oral health.
3. Washing of one's clothes, underwears and even footwears regularly as this is a very salient yet silent aspect of raising a child to observe high personal hygiene.
4. Washing of hands once a child comes into the house form outside and after every visit to the toilet.
5. Regular and daily cleaning up of the child's immediate environment by sweepimg, mopping, mowing, proper refuse disposal and so on...
These and many more are a just a few of the many basic hygiene traing every child should and must imbibe early... Feel free to add yours by commenting below if you think I left out something vital as regards to this. Thanks!
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