Medicine safety and keeping clean
Medicine is only for the person the doctor gives it to. We never take medicine alone, and we never take another person’s medicine. A grown-up gives us the medicine. We also keep our body clean. We wash our hands with soap and water before we eat. We brush our teeth. We use a tissue when we sneeze or cough. These habits stop germs. If a friend is sick, we say: Get well soon.
Salma, who gives you medicine?
A grown-up gives it to me, Mum.
Do you take medicine alone?
No, I never take medicine alone.
Mariam has a cough. Her mum gives her the medicine from the doctor. Mariam never takes medicine alone. She washes her hands with soap. She uses a tissue when she coughs. Her friend Dalia says, Get well soon.
Clean-hands play. Wash hands together with soap. The grown-up asks: What do we use? The child answers: soap and water. Then the child says three clean habits and the grown-up claps for each one.
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