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Keeping Kids Healthy during the School Year

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Keeping Kids Healthy in School

Keeping Kids Healthy in School
Keeping kids healthy during the school year can be a challenge. Young kids and proper hygiene don’t always mix. They’ll get dirty within milliseconds after bathing. Runny noses? They automatically wipe them on their hands, sleeves or worse. Sneezing or coughing? The little people have no qualms sharing the love in close proximity. Most of the time parents can chalk up this behavior to kids being kids. Moms and Dads try to teach their children proper sanitary practices but often the lessons fall on deaf ears also known as selective hearing. Kids, you see, are not keen on responsibility which has the potential to become particularly problematic when school is back in session.

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Piggy Flu

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piggyflu
I was watching the news this past week while my son was directing traffic for his trucks, elephants, and dinosaurs respectively. The newscaster repeatedly uttered the words “Swine Flu” to the extent that my son halted his traffic duties to ask me “Why does the man keep saying swine flu Daddy?..what’s swine flu?” Internally I winced because I honestly did not have an easy way to explain this topic. Nonetheless, in my role as Daddy aka answer man, I had to forge ahead and provide my son with some details. I told him it was a type of very bad cold spread from person to person and pig to pig. He looked at me as though I was the biggest dolt in the world. Then he proceeded to correct me “Daddy, the man said swine flu, not pig flu, silly daddy.” “Well” I said, “pigs are also called swine.” “Oh” he responded….processing this new information for a moment..”so swine flu is piggy flu?” “Yes” I said, “swine flu is piggy flu.” Smiling, he then ran back off to resume what he was doing while shouting “piggy flu! piggy flu!” I, on the other hand, was left pondering the more serious question of whether or not to get the swine flu vaccination.

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