ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the every/day-ness of handwashing as it occurred in my preschool classroom, and children’s natural tendencies to think with care are examined to see how they are actively reshaping an ordinary activity into an exercise of embodiment, entanglement, and agency. Thinking with care means that handwashing is a deeply embodied practice that involves attunement, entanglement, intra-action, and love. Vignettes that illuminate the intra-actions and entanglements that emerge while children are washing their hands are shared in this chapter to provide alternative understandings to children’s knowledge production, to their bending rules and pushing boundaries, and to diffracting reflections.
