Hand washing is a simple but powerful way that can help you or your child stay healthy. Establishing healthy hand washing habits in childhood is key to helping not only your little one, but your wider family stay healthy by stopping harmful germs spreading and causing illness. Those precious hands can get into all sorts of germy messes on a daily basis. They’re exploring and finding out about the world, but the germs they pick up could make your little one, or other members of your family ill. Fortunately regular hand washing can remove these germs meaning they don’t need to limit their fun, helping to keep them healthy.