We all find it tough to teach our kids the importance of being clean. We want to know what your kids say about their clean routine, which only they can get away with! Share your thoughts with Andrex® and you could win a £250 Spa voucher and a month's...

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We are working with the team at Andrex® on all things toilet tissue!
They have a new campaign launching soon about the importance of being clean, and want to know your thoughts.

They'd love to learn from you about the hilarious things kids say about keeping clean. Take a look at this video and see what other kids have said about being clean and their toilet routine, and let us know how your kids answer the question: How clean do you feel after using the loo?

Andrex® told us, "Teaching children the right intimate clean routine is important to their development. We also know they can come out with some corkers about this period: whether it's surprise with what they can do, or the things you say to them to encourage to keep clean - we'd love MNers to share them with us."

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Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

i dunna poo....

oh the sinking feeling it would cause.

I taught dd to sing happy birthday while she washed her hands.

once ds has learned the rule about washing hands he will stick to it. ASD has its good points!

My 4 year old recently washed his hands after using a public toilet. He then was completely baffled as to why the hand dryer wasn't working. He had put his hands in a condom machine!!!

My 2 yo DS is toilet training at the mo. If I'm already on the loo and he needs it I give him the potty to use. He very confidently says "no Mummy, move please" and tries to get me to use the potty instead. Flattering that he thinks my bum will fit on it!

I am toilet training 3yo DS2 at the moment (rather late at coming to the game, but he is getting there . He gets a small sweetie for every successful wee or poo on the potty or toilet, but he has started to take advantage of this. He will sit on the potty for all of 5 seconds, do nothing, then say 'I have a sweetie?' He's not daft (but he doesn't get one for that)

DS1 is always talking about wee & poo - he is, after all, a 5-year old boy

My duaghter has thankfully learned to wash her hands each time after going to the toilet. This is ingrained in her now and I am pleased that she has this habit.

I always have to contain a laugh when she gets of the toilet, puts her hands on the floor and her bum in the air and asks me to check that it is clean. Although I have taught her how to clean her bottom, she still feels the need to a quick check!

My 4 year old son whilst toilet training a while ago did not like people being in the room when he was doing him 'bum poo'. However he did ensure that we looked down the toilet to see it!

many years ago when d was little, you'd go into the bathroom and find her with two large screwed up balls of toilet tissue, I'd ask her why two she would always say I have two holes so one for each of them.

My little boy is toilet training and had a little accident. He came to see me and said he had done a poo. He then told me it was like a sausage!!

When my DD was old enough ,And i was fed up being presented with a bum in my face with child say "mummy wipe my bum", i decided to show her how to wipe her own bum. So i folded the tissue, wiped her from back to front etc , she looked at me as if i were mad and said "i am NOT doing that , it's disgusting !
Also one of our favourites was when she had awful diarrohea she stated she was weeing poo

DD1 (3.9) names her poos as they come out... First a big one (Daddy poo), then a little one (DD2 poo), then will come Mummy poo and if there's any left after that, it'll be DS poo!

And if she's struggling to go, she refuses to perform until I squat in front of the toilet and hold her knees up to her chest, meaning I get a front row seat of the whole performance... :o

My Dn once gave a beautiful performance of a song she entitled '5 little poo poos' to our packed tune carriage it was much the same as five little ducks with the obvious substitution. Luckily the.majority of travellers laughed.

A little boy I once looked after had diarrhoea and he said to me " I've just wee'd out of my bottom!" I have never laughed so much :0)

On coming out of the toilet,I asked my 5 year old son if he'd washed his hands and he replied "well
I did,but only this hand,because I only peed on this one!"

My children have never really had a saying or song for their cleaning routine, but currently my daughter is obsessed with going for a 'sing'. This is because the bathroom is being decorated and currently has no door! We told her if she needed the loo to go in there and sing - she took it literally!
She gets up in the morning and hollers 'I'm going for a sing!'

Lovely girl..... ;)

P.S. When my son was little I heard a noise in the hall and went out to find him standing by the bathroom doorframe, shorts round his ankles with one hand up the doorframe and the other holding his winkle. Peeing on my carpet!!!
When I asked why, he said he was tinkling like Daddy! ;)

My daughter who is 9 now, had us puzzled when one day she walked into the kitchen when she was 5yrs old and calmly informed us that she had construction and when she saw we were quite perplexed explained she has construction as she cannot pooh properly. :)
Our children have always wiped themselves with loo roll as we were always wary of wipes being sent down the loo... but we have always had a good supply of antibacterial soap on hand for a thorough hand wash.

My DS is almost 2 and has just started to string words together with one his first 'sentences' being "Biiiig Daddy poo!!" And he'll say "blast" if it's a particularly explosive one!!!

I got dd using toilet paper from the word go. (Ds used to hate it and always wanted wipes) so she was ready for school. We do have wipes as well for "sticky ones".

Dds regularly heard announcing "it's yucky can I use a wipe?" at the top volume

My daughter has had difficulty going to the toilet so we have always made a fuss when she does. Now though when she has done a pooh she shouts to us "I've done a pooh can you smell it"

Every time my 4 yo DS does a poo he's taken to singing a song that has me in stitches! He wiggles around on the loo singing 'It might sound crazy but I've got a dirty butt!', loosely to the tune of Pharrell's opening line of 'Happy'. It's then my job to make sure his 'butt' is nice and clean.

My youngest now are 17, doesn't stop them letting me know when they have 'pickle poo' -diarrhoea - the colour reminded them of piccalilli when they were young!
We once found ds2 looking curiously down the lavatory, upon questioning he informed us he was looking for the Germans, presumably he meant germs! My (Swiss German) aunt thought this was hysterical!

Just turned 3 year old DS has only recently started to do poos on the toilet and wants to start wiping his bottom 'all by self'. Except he likes to wipe and leave some of the toilet roll hanging there so 'I got tail Mummy like the dog!'

My 2 year old DD comes to tell me when she has done a poo, on one occasion announcing 'Mummy my bottom is very dangerous'. She then demands that I 'fix it Mummy it's very stinky'! She is obsessed with handwashing and soap but hates hand dryers.

We were trying to teach our DD to wipe herself as she would have dirty underware coming home from crèche.

One morning as she's saying goodbye to Daddy at crèche she says "see you later dad, I won't skid my knickers!" Lol

I told DS to wash his hands. He said, "Why do I have to wash both of them? Only one is dirty..."