The Buckets by Greg Cravens for September 02, 2018

Eddie still can’t reach! Come on, Laura – give him a boost!

C’mon Mom, it’s dinner, not prepping for surgery!

Use soap. She’s going through the list again.

Easier to train them like I trained my kids – Just let me smell your hands. They knew they had to wash.

One day I realised that my nephew usually got the dog to lick his hands before lunch. So I casually mentioned that the dog licked in backside thoroughly with his tongue. My nephew ran to wash his hands and never tried that trick again. :)

Proper cleaning needs a minimum of 15 seconds of lathering. Two minutes is overkill, but when you consider their age, telling them two minutes and accepting one minute of actual work should be sufficient.

Wash with Alka-Seltzer tablets. The fizz is FUN. (KIDS!! Don’t try this at home without parental supervision!)

“Without wearing anything, of any kind, on your hands?”

I wear gloves to handle the boxes on my delivery truck [don’t know how many hands touched them or if they wash after restroom breaks] (better grip with coated gloves) and also because of all the door handles I touch (think schools and convenience stores at rush times). And I use my own pen for all paperwork. Over the past 17+ years as a driver I have had very minimal sick time due to “germs”. Oh, I also wash my hands every 3 stops, just in case.

I’ve seen what kids get into. Wash those hands!

More than two minutes? I thought proper handwashing was 30 seconds?

I owned and ran a bar with lunch service and believe me I washed my hands so many times it is a wonder I wasn’t called prune fingers!!

She missed one: did you wash both hands?

“More than two minutes”? They’re eating a meal, not performing brain surgery.

Mummy’s all wised up to their antics.