Reminding your kids to wash their hands or cough into their sleeve can be an endless battle. Turn your backs for a minute and they are wiping their nose with their hand or coughing in someone’s face. A preschool teacher has turned to Twitter, offering a tutorial you can share with your little ones and anyone else who may need an extra reminder during cold and flu season.
Laurie Goff writes, “Want to know how to cough? This is how I teach my preschool students. Hope it helps.”
In the video, which has garnered over one million views on Twitter, Goff explains that when you cough into your hands, “you have germs all over your hands and anything you touch will get your germs on it.” When that happens, you need to immediately wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds. As an alternative, she introduces us to the term “cough pocket.”
Goff demonstrates coughing and sneezing into her bent elbow. “You need to use your cough pocket,” she explains. “It’s simple, easy to use, it’s on your body, it’s free, it’s always with you.”
—Jennifer Swartvagher
Featured photo: Jennifer Swartvagher
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