'Germs' between family members

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 27 2006 Posts: 4760

Are you careful about germs between family members? Do your kids share food, cups, utensils...? Would you eat from the same plate as your child? (I'm obv. not talking about if anyone is sick)

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Nope! We keep our germs to ourselves. Smile

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Diamond Member Joined: Dec 28 2005 Posts: 4653

I'm not makpid. Of course we are mechabed everyone with their own plate, cup, utensils, but will let them eat each other's leftovers if they want. They also share pacifiers although b"H we're pretty much phased out of the paci stage. We feed the kids bites of food from our plates with our utensils all the time. Of course I'm more careful if someone's sick.

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I definitely give dd bites from my fork, but not so comfortable abt sharing kid to kid. Kids have lots of germs, being around other kids all day...

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I'm also pretty makpid. That doesn't mean my kids won't drink from their siblings' cups...it means that I don't like it and I try to be mechanech them otherwise. My older 2 understand it a whole lot better than my third Smile

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I share germs with DD but I figure since she's nursing from me she gets all me germs anyway! Smile

Posted: Wed, Nov 24 2010, 9:16 pm Post subject:

We share. It's a mitzva to share Wink

, but I do tell them not to share their germs (I mean when they're sick). One of my ds will always complain about eating from someone elses food or utensil, but when "no one" is looking, he'll drink from a bottle or something like that. Rolling Eyes

Hey, it's a 2 way street!!

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Posted: Wed, Nov 24 2010, 9:39 pm Post subject:

We share all our germs. I am totaly not worried.
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Gold Member Joined: Apr 29 2010 Posts: 1026

I don't believe in germs. In other words, we share everything, adults and kids, barring illness. We're doing fine so far, B"H!

We also share everything I dont see why not if your not sick?

Gold Member Joined: Jul 11 2008 Posts: 1897

The family that slept together, strepped together.

Shoulda known that when my 12yo boy crawled into our bed 2 nights ago it must have meant something bad was gonna happen... we are all on antibiotics today.

yeah we all share germs of all sorts here. Actually they are rarely ever sick which is why we were all shocked to find that we are all sick with strep now.

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

I just think it's gross. Kids pick up germs from their classmates and bring it home. Everybody is carrying around germs from who knows what. No thanks.

How about pinworms? I'm very careful about handwashing in my family but just in case I won't eat anything off their plates. Once they touch it it's in the garbage if they don't finish it.

Diamond Member Joined: Jan 24 2010 Posts: 3399

There's a lot of sharing going on in our home, but we often wash our hands with soap, and use antibacterial gel (not in an extreme way). Always before we eat, even if it's just a snack.

Diamond Member Joined: Dec 26 2006 Posts: 4316

When my kids were little strep and ear infections were almost monthly. Then I became very strict about hand washing and sharing food. Times they would get sick went down at least fifty percent.

GR is right - it's bad enough what kids are exposed to in school. Why would you then want it spread in family. I think it's very naive to say there are no problem with family germs. Have some sympathy on your kids, help spare them from getting sick more often than they need to.