Do your children wash their hands before every meal?

[Hayegernz]

We definitely did as kids and thinking I am too lax with mine. They wash their hands when coming in from outside and after the loo but that's it.

After just seeing a thread about worms I'm now a bit worried that my baby ate her dinner with her hands after playing with her big sister's toys and crawling around the floor all afternoon. Barf.

Is it just us?

Yes, we eat with our hands, if we didn’t I’d be a bit more lax.

No and this is never something I've done. Probably should though 🙈

I was more thinking about children,not me!

“I'm also a teacher and our children at school don't either...it's not 'a thing' these days anymore OP 🤷‍♀️ They eat with cutlery, so we are assuming that their hands don't touch their food 👍 (plus, there simply is not the time or facilities to get 450 children to wash their hands by 12pm!”

That is so depressing - you are teaching a whole generation that hand hygiene doesn’t matter when it’s one of the key elements of disease prevention. What did you do during the pandemic?

Yes always!! I'm shocked that others don't. Gross!!