Ridiculousness of it all

[Annalee]

I'm not really sure what the point of that step is since the child needs to wash their hands right after anyway. Although I don't know anyone who actually does it unless someone from state is watching them...

It becomes a game for "that day"..

[KiddieCahoots]

My center stores ours in an old egg cartoon turned upside down with holes cut in it. It has to replaced occasionally, but it's free to make (assuming you consume eggs, like ever) so it's not a big deal. When they start getting older, the toothbrushes start falling over if you move it. (We tape ours down so if licensing asks us to bring it to then, we tell them we can't.)

We got the instructions for it from a Massachusetts handout: http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/c...child-care.pdf (it's on page 7)

We can't put toothbrushes in plastic bags here either, but we can put toothpaste directly onto the brush, as long as each child has their own tube. Although we do have to clean and sanitize the sink between each child...

Pretty sure salmonella is carried on eggshells passed from a chicken's excrements.
They'll be rethinking this pretty fast!

[Josiegirl]

The more I learn, the more I just shake my head. What I don't understand is why are we getting more rules and regulations than schools? Do any schools have to make sure kids brush their teeth? Do they have to wipe down individual desks every single time it gets used? To me, common sense and good supervision takes precedence over all these stupid excessive rules.

I had to chuckle at one training I attended. We were told a couple years ago, don't let licensing catch us using t.p. tubes for crafts due to sanitary reasons. A training I went to right before Christmas, presented by our resource person, gave us all kinds of ideas for crafts with....you got it, t.p. tubes. The same resource person(I love her dearly so this is nothing against her, just the stupidity of the whole system sometimes)presented a training in which one of the hand-outs gave us a dough recipe. I began trying it at home, not reading the instructions all the way through and when I came to the part that said add water to hot oil, I'm going 'wait a minute, that doesn't make sense'. I even emailed her to point out the danger of that recipe but never heard back.

Again, common sense!!!