Happy Birthday to Poo!
Every evening before dinner we can hear the happy sound of "Happy Birthday to You" being sung by our children through powder room door. No, it's not their birthdays (well, I guess twice a year it's one of theirs, but that's not the point), and no, they're not serenading their poo (at least I hope not).
Rather, this has been our most successful campaign to get our children to wash their hands for the requisite amount of time. They now cleanse their hands for as long as it takes them to sing Happy Birthday twice. They insert the name of a different person in the appropriate place holder every night (last night it was Uncle Bob), and they think it's hilarious.
posted by Trillian @ 11:52 AM
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4 Comments:
I have the opposite problem with my 2 - they can hole up for 45 minutes, burning through half a tank of hot water and an entire bottle of liquid soap. And that's without touching the grime on the backs of their hands.
Haha...that is a clever way to get kids to do soemthing they hate. I doubt they would be so sanguine if they didn't get to change the lyrics around like that....
yeah, it's the first blog i read everyday.
Rene: it only applies to their hands, and only the fronts of those. Attempts to wash faces and other body parts are met with shrieks.
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