To expect my son to wash his hands when he gets in?

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Ds 16yo has been at work or college, come home on public transport.

Aibu to expect him to wash his hands upon arriving home before he starts touching everything especially the fridge, food, cups etc. he will walk straight in and start going in the fridge making a drink not washing his hands.

When I ask him he shouts at me and calls me a germ phobe.

Everyone else in the house manages to wash their hands when they get in.

Agree!

I thought it's perfectly normal to wash your hands after coming home 😳

I always insist that dc do it. After coming home ans after using the toilet. I don't know if there's a point or not but it's something I've strangely never questioned 🤔

We all wash our hands in our house when we get home.
I have a real thing about it. If a character on a tv show comes home in a scene and straight away makes a sandwich or something, I completely miss anything they say because I’m so busy saying/thinking they haven’t washed their hands 🤣. My DH says to me ‘‘you know it’s not real, don’t you?!’
I don’t think you are unreasonable, especially when he is touching food you also eat.

I wash my hands when I come inside from being out and I wash them before preparing food and of course after using the toilet

I'm not OTT and I'm not a germ phobe. I'm just clean

I don't enforce my 18 year old doing it but I do suggest it and he usually does.

Don't worry OP - this thread just highlights the mingers out there!

Absolutely this. I am shocked at the amount of soap dodgers about.

People with a B blood group are resistant to a lot of strains of norovirus. Maybe that's why some people never get sick despite questionable hygiene?

Sadly I'm not one of them 🤣

I find this thread interesting. People here often don't like the thought of shoes in their houses. What is the difference? They'll be as dirty as hands that have touched door handles, money and whatnot.

I always wash mine when I get in but don't particularly notice when others don't (not judging you I just don't but maybe will now lol) however if anyone doesn't after the toilet or before cooking I have to strain myself not to pass comment!!! A colleague once told me she too always washes her hands when she gets in. Another washes them before she goes to the loo as well as after. I used to have OCD about public transport handles as a teenager where I'd obsess that my hand touched my bag aftet touching that and so I'd then have to clean my bag and contents - and it got really out of hand so I feel your pain!!!

My DS 15 does every time he comes in from outside, it’s a throwback from COVID. I only know because he makes a bloody mess in the kitchen leaving soap sides everywhere!!!

My DD’s do sometimes. It’s not something I would enforce.

We have a handwashing rule for coming back into the house. We've always done this though so the kids know that's what's expected.

That's really interesting I didn't know that.

Some people definitely seem more susceptible.

He should be washing his hands before food prep. I wouldn't have been fussed otherwise

And why aren't they susceptible to sickness??

I'm amazed so many people do not especially when having been on public transport. We all wash our hands when we get home and I'm certainly not germ obsessed.

People anctu arguing that we don’t wash our clothes when returning home, so why wash hands?!. It’s obviously not the same. Unless you’re unsteady on your feet, it’s hands and feet which come into contact with the outside world, not clothes so much.

People are disgusting. I wash my hands a lot, I'm an admitted and diagnosed OCDer when it comes to germs.

I will hold my clean hands up and say I hate antibacterial gel and would always rather actually soap and hot water.

I always wash my hands when getting into a house. My 8yo does too. He had a stomach bug at age 4 and and still remembers and is scared of it happening again (he's borderline emetaphonic)

My DH rails against it, but he knows I'd throw a meal away that he's touched with unwashed hands than eat it.

I've seen dinner ladies in my school touch the bottom of children's shoes, blow their nose, clean a graze wound...and then get straight to serving the kids food. My child went on packed lunches shortly after 😂

I don't wash my hands when I come into the house. I wash them after going to the loo and before preparing food.

I don't see an issue with coming in, opening the fridge door and taking a drink out, personally.
And no, that doesn't make me a 'soap dodger'. My personal hygiene is fine.

I've never seen anyone, friend or relative, wash their hands for no other reason than they've entered their own home (or mine).

I always wash my hands as soon as I get home. It's been in built from a young age, a long time before Covid. It's just a habit at this stage but i do always feel like i need to as I've touched public transport handrails etc.

May or may not be a germophobe but I just couldn't at this stage. Not surprised that there are two camps here. It's like those who are comfortable walking around with shoes inside. Again, seeing all the nastiness on the pavements outside, i just couldn't!

I always wash my hands before picking my nose.

How is this possible? What are you both doing?

No real need for hot water even. 10 seconds is enough. Easy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40118539

@VoodooRajin well I can't answer that there are probably multiple reasons but when they talk about being exposed to germs it doesn't mean skipping hand washing.

It's about children playing outside, playing with one another.

We don't live in a sterile environment.

How can you explain that when we all had Covid ds was very unwell but the rest of us had no symptoms.

Dh has never had a sickness bug. He always washes his hands.

Are you saying that all the children who were wiped out recently at school with noro were too clean?

Has he been mucking out farm animals by hand?

@chocos being filthy apparently.

Well funny you should say. You're not far off.