Read the following scenarios and describe the steps you would take to keep children healthy. Consider healthy hygiene practices, handwashing, and modeling healthy habits. After answering the questions below and share your responses with a trainer, coach, or administrator.

1. Dinah is a young three-year-old in your classroom. Your classroom assistant is supervising the restroom while Dinah and one other child are using the restroom. Suddenly, Dinah comes running out of the restroom with no pants on. She comes to you and says, “I done. Wipe me."

   Redirect Dinah back into the restroom, making sure no bodily fluids or fecal matter have dripped on the floor. Follow procedures to clean any messes. You or your co-teacher or assistant should finish helping Dinah clean herself (following all gloving and sanitation procedures in the restroom). Wash your hands thoroughly. Clean and disinfect any surface Dinah touched when she left the restroom. Wash your hands again. Remind Dinah that it is important to stay in the restroom until she is clean and dressed.

    
2. It is outdoor play time. While moving around the playground, you notice Jerome facing the wall at the corner of the building. You move towards him to find out what is wrong and notice that he is urinating on the wall.

   Remind Jerome that we use the toilets inside. Ask another adult to take him inside to use the restroom. Block other children from touching the soiled wall and ground while you request another adult to bring cleaning and sanitation supplies over. Clean and disinfect the soiled area. Immediately wash your hands. Make sure enough adults are present to supervise all children.