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Home › Articles › Parenting Preschoolers › The Human Body

The Human Body

Tips on How to Talk to Your Preschooler

By Teri Brown

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Top Tips

Debroff gives the following tips to introduce the human body to your preschooler:

  • Now is the time to talk about basic body privacy with kids -- about keeping their hands to themselves (i.e. when frustrated) and other people keeping their hands off your child's private areas. It's sad, but something you have to at least introduce in a broad way to your child.
  • You have to start talking about body cleanliness...about a bath or shower every day, washing hands after playing outside or before eating.
  • It helps to frame "being sick" to your child as a time when your body is trying to get better and fighting off the germs -- so coughing or even throwing up become valiant efforts of your body to help you get better. And symptoms like fever help you know you need to take extra care of your body.
  • This is a great age to start talking about basic nutrition -- foods that help give your body energy and foods that are not as good for your body.
  • Don't forget the old classic songs that make body parts fun such as, "Head, shoulders, knees and toes!" or "The thigh bone's connected to the shin bone..."
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