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Explain the importance of grooming
"From my perspective as a physician, I like the idea of using hygiene to introduce basic, age-appropriate concepts of health, wellness, and disease," says Dr. Weimer. "Kids can grasp the idea of infection (like icky colds with runny noses) without knowing the scary details. Kids of certain ages can understand the ideas that diseases can be communicable and that they can prevent transmission by ...
more Photo by: Babble
Explain the importance of grooming
"From my perspective as a physician, I like the idea of using hygiene to introduce basic, age-appropriate concepts of health, wellness, and disease," says Dr. Weimer. "Kids can grasp the idea of infection (like icky colds with runny noses) without knowing the scary details. Kids of certain ages can understand the ideas that diseases can be communicable and that they can prevent transmission by practicing good hygiene. (Plus you're laying the foundation for those fun STD talks in later years!)"
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