Today, much is said about the need to follow personal hygiene habits. If adults understand why and how to do it, then children need to be interested in it. Certainly, it is important to explain why we should wash our face and brush our teeth in the morning and evening and wash our hands after going outside, before eating and in other cases. These useful skills should be instilled in children from a very early age. 

Three-year olds can eat, dress and wash themselves, use a handkerchief, a hairbrush and a towel and do many other things independently. At this age, children take an interest in health-related behaviours, enjoy performing simple rituals (washing their face and hands and brushing their teeth) and learns enthusiastically more and more about the body. Children are happy with every opportunity to perform hygienic procedures on their own and sincerely and emotionally rejoice at the result: their clean hands and clean teeth. 

However, the process of instilling hygiene habits in children does not always go as we would like. Some children shirk such tedious and not so necessary, in their opinion, procedures as washing hands and brushing teeth. What to do? 

Firstly, wash your hands together with your children! In this period of development of your child, the most important thing is to set a good example. The child thoroughly watches what adults are doing, copy their actions and try to imitate them. Therefore, if mums and dads wash their hands, then children will happily follow their example. 

Secondly, your look should say that you are taking pleasure in the process and enjoy the result that your child achieves. The emotional component is important, and then good hygiene habits will be solidified.

Thirdly, children love to play and fantasise. This is what you need to take advantage of. Play with your child. Soaping your hands, you can blow bubbles (clasping your hand so that there is a hole between the fingers and palm) and watch how many large and small bubbles grow on the palms if you thoroughly lather them. You can also compete with each other: who will get more lather when soaping hands or (if the child wants to finish as soon as possible and washes hands poorly) who will be the last to wash off the foam. 
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