Kids Should Play in the Dirt
By Linda on Nov 30, 2009 in Interesting Stories
Linda’s comment: This was true several years ago, but today it can be dangerous. Yes children need to build immunities, BUT playing is pesticides, herbicides, Round-UP, etc., etc., can be VERY toxic for our children. Look what happened in the Lake of the Ozark. Children were playing in a very toxic creek and didn’t know it!! Our rivers are dirty from toxic waste dumping, even our fish are becoming Frankenstein Fish, with many unable to lay eggs. Our tap waters, river waters, creek waters are full of the drugs many folks take. I live in Arizona and I have a friend that works for Game and Fish, and he tells me when they test the waters around the state, they find birth control, plaxil, antibiotics, etc., etc., etc. The local water departments can not remove these drugs, so we play, bath, cook and drink this toxic water.
Dirt today can be dangerous. Finding a good spa that can give us great mud baths is God sent. But, to let our children enjoy the days we had as children is all but gone. Just be careful when letting your children play in dirt and mud, as it could also be giving them new disease. Who know? Just be safe and do some research to find your own answers.
Kids Should Play in the Dirt
Getting dirty helps a child’s skin heal from cuts and inflammations.
In the latest confirmation of the “hygiene hypothesis,” which states that exposure to different kinds of germs during childhood helps the body fight off allergies and other aliments, researchers at University of California at San Diego discovered that otherwise harmless bacteria found in dirt interrupts the process of skin inflammation.
Many scientists believe children in more developed countries are kept too clean by their parents, and that this accounts for the recent jump in childhood allergies in these regions.
With this latest finding, we’re just one broccoli-causes-cancer study away from all of our childhood complaints being completely vindicated.
