The personal hygiene is not always the obvious moment for the kid. When for it everything is done by parents, the child does not see need for independent service of. It is necessary to lay strong bases of personal care in the earliest childhood.
Personal example - the best teacher
Analyze the habits connected with personal hygiene. They will become the main reference point for your child. In the first years of life children will hardly realize advantage and need of washing of hands or toothbrushing. They will just repeat everything after you as these rituals bring closer them to the world of adults.
Achieve that the personal hygiene became for children the same needs of nature as a dream or food. The period from 1 to 3 years is optimum to impart to the child even not the not most necessary, but very useful habits in this sphere. For example, washing of a nose in the period of seasonal respiratory epidemics or contrast douche. If to miss right time, subsequently to force the child to carry out similar manipulations it will be very hard.
Need explanation
When the child begins to understand many things, gradually begin to explain him need of thorough personal care. In recent years on store shelves there were many training books and games which will help the kid to understand theoretical bases of personal hygiene. Remember that some information can be too serious or even shocking. However, in this case the elementary fear to ache can become excellent motivation to wash hands after the street or to use tooth thread. Even at early age children are capable to understand a lot of things - from protection against bacteria and infections to esthetic bases of personal hygiene.
Schooling in the form of a game
Create your personal joint rituals which will create a habit to personal hygiene at the child. For example, before going to bed perform all operations in a strict order, and then the child himself will remind you of a certain stage if you intentionally miss it. Accompany all this with the corresponding rhymes and nursery rhymes. In the course of the game model situations when your heroes (dolls, animals) look after themselves. Build plots so that the child could "train" toys, once again fixing the available information.
Pleasant details
Make so that everything, connected with personal hygiene, was beautiful and cheerful. A toothbrush in the form of the hero of the animated film, paste with taste of chewing gum, figured soap, an amusing towel: similar trifles will cause desire to look after themselves in the kid. Go together with children to shop or pharmacy and allow them to choose accessories to hygiene independently. This moment will become for them the next manifestation of independence and will attach to the world of adults.