Dec 06 2008
Please, blow your nose & cover your mouth when you cough!
Not at the same time…hopefully.
My little guy has a cold. He’s miserable and he seems determined to pass his sickness on to the rest of the family. Ok. Maybe he even passed it to a few others, since we dropped by the tail end of a birthday party to hand over a gift and have a piece of cake. Sorry folks!
Should I mention the year a major virus got everyone ill after all the kids played with the same blob of play dough? Well, that’s the suspected means of contamination… Ew!
It’s hard to teach kids how to be polite and not share their germs. If germs were something visible-like dandelion fluff or pollen–it would be a lot simpler.
“Who put these germ streaks all over your sleeve?”
“Why are there cold germs in the potato salad?”
“Wow! You made a germ smoke circle with that cough!”
Gross, but tangible.
I guess I will have to go on nagging him to cover his mouth when he coughs, to sneeze into a tissue and to PLEASE wash his hands before he dips them in the potato salad. Just kidding….maybe….
