"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Jacquie > wrote:
>
> : "Bj?rn Steensrud" > wrote in message
> : ...
> : > KROM wrote:
> : >
> : >> its more of the fact people don?t wash their hands after the bathroom
> : >> more
> : >> then just germs.
> : >>
> : >> think about this..everyone going into a buffet uses the door handle
> then
> : >> the money to pay if its pay ahead like many are then they touch the
> chair
> : >> or the tables etc to get their seats then they get right to the
> buffet
> : >> and
> : >> start touching everything.
> : >>
> : >> nobody goes to the place goes to the bathroom to wash their hands and
> : >> then
> : >> goes to the line..
> : >>
> : >> KROM
> : >
> : > Heh. I noticed a grandson (5 years old at the time) washing his hands
> : > after
> : > the bathroom - he used his elbow to close the faucet. But then, both
> his
> : > parents are MDs (and now PhDs).
> : > :-)
> : >
> : >
> : I heard somewhere to have your child sing a verse of Happy Birthday or a
> : song that is the same length and tell them to keep on washing until they
> are
> : done with the song...makes it a bit more fun:
>
> I learned that here frome a former poster, Barbara "pointy-?" who had been
> a nurse adn told us that they had been taught tht in nursing school.
>
> Wendy
>
My Sister is a nurse..maybe that's who I heard it from