Reply #2: listen to you. i have a 10yr old compulsive obsessive [View All]

[seabeyond]

behavior with washing hands and germs. 1st grade his teacher hyperchondriac. i have been fighting this "illness" for four years. he got to the point of bloodying hands from obsessive washing, to not eating around people, to nagging all of us to wash hands, as often as he. he sees every lick of a finger.

i have told him for a year that he isnt washing hands properly and i am not going to teach him how. i want him to get some germs, so his body can stay in practice and shape, fighting germs.

i have totally down played it with youngest so he wont adopt this behavior.

monday i told youngest, some strong virus's are coming our way this winter, so we want to wash hands and wash well. regularly. now is the time, lol. he is with me

the oldest, i am going to have to clue him in with some of the washing, that i hadnt done in the past

says something when parents are seeing enough to change our behavior and our kids, and what we tell them.

thanks for posting. interesting.