A preschool teacher’s instructional video teaching her children how to wipe using balloons has gone viral. It seems that preschoolers don’t really get the “wipe front to back memo during school hours. Usually, it’s parents who teach their kids how to wipe down there. But what happens if parents don’t do it? And what if teachers were to teach that lesson using balloon butts? Okay, it sounds like a recipe for disaster and maybe a few lawsuits, but stay with us. Recently, an unnamed teacher at a school outside of the U.S has gone after a viral video of her teaching pre-school-aged children how to wipe hit the web properly.
We don’t teach essential skills in American schools. pic.twitter.com/OnKwolhKVY
— jamie (@gnuman1979) October 10, 2019
As far as we can see, everything about this video seems to be perfect. The tiny chairs, the colorful balloon buts, the methodical wiping instructions, the tissue paper folding technique, down to the small children sitting very still in those tiny chairs. The creative teacher in the video is unknown. However, we have reason to believe that took place in a school abroad, as wiping lessons are not a common practice in American preschools. However, since most American preschools expect kids over the age of three to be able to use the bathroom independently, maybe it’s time that they throw some balloons on the chair and start teaching this valuable lesson?
As one very honest Twitter commenter pointed out, “y’all know damn well little kids BARELY EVER wipe correctly…add on that they probably listen to their teacher more than they listen to their parent(s), this is a great idea.”
And most people on Twitter seemed to agree, praising the innovative teacher.
But, of course, there were those who felt this lesson crossed a line.
For a lot of detractors, the “eww” factor puts them off. However, as someone pointed out, many children are not being taught this at home, and they grow up with lifelong bad wiping habits that can impact their health along with their personal hygiene.
One Twitter user pointed out that perhaps having both parents and teachers emphasize proper wiping etiquette would be effective in hammering the point home for the kids especially since it takes some children a long time how to figure out how to wipe on their own.
“Sometimes neither the parents have the knowledge that why there are so much urinary tract infection in young children, (specially girls) because the asepsis must be done from the vagina to the anus. Health education not necessarily must be done at home,” the Twitter user wrote. Or as someone else wrote, “You could say the same thing about sex Ed, I see it as part of teaching kids about the body in general.”
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Source: Scary Mommy
