One of the "surrogate parents" is a doctor, and because of her profession, she pays special attention to cultivating her children's hygiene habits. She often tells her children, "Be a hygienic and clean child, so that others will like you. For example, you must wash your hands before and after meals." Child question: "Why do I have to wash my hands before and after meals?" "The Acting Parent tells her, "Because your hands touch all kinds of things every day and are contaminated with many germs. If you don't wash your hands before eating, and if you don't eat the germs when you eat, you will grow worms, and if you have worms, you will have to go to the hospital to get an injection and take medicine." " The "surrogate parent" further told the children that washing hands before and after meals can prevent various intestinal infections and parasitic diseases. So, under the careful request of the "acting parent", the left-behind child wakes up every morning, washes his own face and hands. Especially before eating, never need to be reminded, take the initiative to wash their own hands, play soap, dry hands. She has now fully developed good hygiene habits.

Hygiene is an extremely important part of a child's lifestyle, and it affects every aspect of a child's life. It is essential for maintaining the child's health and building up the child's image. As a "surrogate parent", we should pay attention to cultivate the left-behind children to develop good habits of hygiene and cleanliness from a young age.

How to cultivate children's good habits of hygiene?

First of all, the child should be allowed to acquire the necessary knowledge of hygiene and health, understand the relationship between hygiene and health, and stimulate his desire to love cleanliness and hygiene. In the past, parents have always restricted their children to "not doing this, not doing that", "should be this, should be that", and seldom told their children why they should do so, which is often not very effective. In order to carry out hygiene and health education for children, to cultivate children's good habits of hygiene, the first thing is to solve the problem of "why".

Secondly, there are many such problems in daily life, parents can always put forward to help the child to analyze, so that he understands the significance of each thing, and gradually let him understand that do not pay attention to hygiene, will affect the health, in order to have a healthy body, must pay attention to hygiene. Parents can often give the child questions, such as: ① Why should we wash our hands before and after meals? ② Why should I rinse my mouth? ③Why should I wash my fruits when I eat them? ④Why should you throw garbage in the garbage can? ⑤ Why should I take a bath? What happens if you don't take a bath? ⑥Why is it important to change clothes often? Parents should make sure that their children understand and can answer the above questions correctly, and add and explain when necessary.

Once again, parents should minimize the use of commanding, negative tone of requesting the child, to give him reasoning, so that he understands the reasons for doing so, to deepen his understanding, so that he can consciously pay attention to hygiene, to protect their own physical health. In daily life, parents should help children develop good hygiene habits, for example: let the child develop the morning and evening hand and face washing, go out home, eat before washing their hands, but also educate the child to take the initiative to wash their hands before meals, after the toilet, dirty hands, face at any time after the wash; should teach the child to brush their teeth up and down the teeth, from the outside to the inside, so that you can brush off the residual food in the teeth, to protect the teeth, to prevent dental caries; Children should be told to wash their toes and heels when taking a bath, and dry them after washing; they should take a bath and change clothes every day in summer, and take a bath and wash their hair regularly in other seasons, and change their underwear frequently; children should be reminded to cut their hair and fingernails diligently. Children's hair to neat, generous appropriate. Nails long, hide dirt, very unhygienic, but also easy to scratch the skin, you should ask the child regular trimming; parents should be diligent supervision, more guidance, more language to encourage the child, so that the child gradually develop good hygiene habits.