With changing seasons comes weather shakeups, allergies and new activities. In order to help your family and loved ones enjoy this season and participate in all the fun, we have compiled a few basic tips to help defend your child’s health in this transitioning weather.
1. Keep Hands Clean
- Advise your child to wash their hands before and after eating, after arriving home from school, and after playing outside or with family pets.
- Make hand washing fun! Singing a song on the topic can help.
- Buy a preferred hand sanitizer for your child for easy access to clean hands. Give them scent options and allow them to pick out their favorite!
- Keep it in their backpack, lunchbox, gym bag, and other areas they access throughout their day.
2. Prevent Germs from Spreading
- Advise your child to cover their mouth and/or nose when sneezing and coughing.
- Praise your child every time you see them covering.
- Again, singing songs can help make this habit fun for your child!
- Keep tissues handy for your child. This will help your child blow or wipe their nose while their handsstay clean and safe from germs.
- Pick a tissue brand that feels best against your child’s skin. Some tissue boxes even have characters or designs on them. To encourage usage, pick one your child likes!
With the weather changing, we know that it can be hard to avoid illnesses. However, we can try our best with these tips and make the process fun for our little ones! We wish you and your family a season of health.
About GBC
At GBC Autism Services, we provide ABA therapy to children with autism in the areas of Chicagoland, Peoria, Normal, Rockford, Springfield, Dekalb, and North-West Indiana. Our services include in-home and clinic-based ABA therapy, early intervention services, school consultations, and social skills groups.
The team at GBC doesn’t only focus on the behaviors that might be seen as weaknesses in children with autism. We accept and appreciate each child’s unique abilities and incorporate them into our programming. In fact, we love to learn about each child’s interests and strengths and only look to help them navigate the world better.
