If you’ve spent any time at all with first-graders, you probably know that they’re not so great about sharing toys, but they are extremely generous about sharing two other things:  germs and information.  Want to know who threw up on the school bus?  Ask a first-grader; it was probably his classmate. 

I regularly hang out with first-graders, as I volunteer at my kids’ school every week.  Last time I was there, the first grade announced to me that one boy was absent because he has the Swine Flu.

“No, he doesn’t,” the librarian informed them.  “We don’t know if he has the flu yet.  But he is home sick today.”  (I never said that first-graders shared accurate information!)  I decided to seize the moment and informed the first-graders that whatever this child has, he’s right to stay home, and that he should eat some chicken soup and have some orange juice so he can get healthy faster. That derailed them into a discussion about healthy things to eat and got them off the topic of who’s got what disease.

The bottles of hand sanitizer are multiplying at the school, and I end each library session by disinfecting the tables, chairs and computer keyboards.  It’s got to be done–because the kids just share way too much in that school!

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