In spite of the old wives tale that handling a frog or toad can give you warts, children seem to still get them.
Warts are small benign skin tumors caused by various strains of the human papilloma virus.
These are very common in children and teenagers. The virus enters through the skin when direct contact with an infected person is made or from moist surfaces such as a shower or locker room floor. It is very important that your child not pick or pull at the warts. You will want to wash the warts to make them soft and then add a treatment, like the ones below. To treat common warts, buy a wart remover treatment such as Dr. Scholl's Clear Away One Step, which has bandaids with salicylic acid in fun colors for kids.