So I am reading thru the posts for one of my online classes in Early Child Ed. The subject for the week was germs and handwashing. A couple of posters mentioned how they teach the kiddos to sing the Alphabet song at their preschool centers, so the children will wash their hands long enough. I had never tried that, and decided to start incorporating it into my routine.
Funny thing is, I tried it out on my 2nd grader first. We were in a restaurant, and I took him to the bathroom to wash up before we headed out. He starts the water and I say "hey dude, make sure you wash long enough to get the germs off." He rolls his 8 year old eye balls and goes "Mommmm, I know that already. I know how to wash my hands right!" I, of course, persist: "How can you be sure it's long enough? Let's sing a song." I proceed to sing the ABC's. To give him credit, he washed the whole time, but there was alot of eye-rolling and head shaking going on, like, "my mom is nuts, but I will play along".
As he is drying his hands, he informs me that ABC song is babyish, and basically dorky. OK, then. SO, me, in my wisdom rally forth to take the bait...I ask what song he would choose. After a 3 second deliberation, he says "Sweet dreams are made of these.....". For those of you too young to have rocked the eighties, that is an Eurythmics song. That's my boy!
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