Playing in the dirt

[rob]

Today I heard a young mother reprimanding her son for kneeling down and playing with some soil that was surrounding a public hedge.

She was saying that it was dirty and he will get ill.

When I was a kid we lived in the dirt (and up trees) and generally did not care about any of the above.

Only (fairly) recently has TV advertising and documentaries began telling us about how dangerous germs can be and I am sure that it is all just scaremongering. Keeping your child in a sterile enviroment means that they could grown up with an under developed immunity system.

This is how bad things have got...

We we live in a world where they sell Domesdos that kills 99% of all known germs but then they sell the good germs back to you in bottles of Actimel.

I struggle to comprehend the people that fall for it.

[tigerlilly]

I know pathetic isn't it ??

Now we're having to eat bacteria yogurts ..foods etc to get the bacteria back in...a bit of muck never did anyone any harm..

Do you know a few years back I lived in a house with no central heating...i mean freezing...i walked around in bare feet...could wash my hair in almost cold water and I never got an ailment..not even a cold..the healthiest I've ever been...Now that I have the comforts and a bit more luxury ...I get a cold as soon as there's a draft

It's like anything in Life You've got to have a healthy balance...I agree your immune system needs to be familiarized with various conditions and not have certain things eliminated..It will do more bad than good in the long run.

Just to mention as well. My mother has never had an injection in her life...because my grandma never agreed with it..My mother is still strong and healthy at 68 and has never been ill in her life

[rob]

That last comment of yours Tigerlilly...

Opens the question of how many human illnesses are caused by doctors and scientists thinking that they are clever and that they can actually outwit nature.

Idiots lol

[paulmathews]

Aye, they were the good old days .....when you could get a piece of fish and a bag of germs and still have change out of a tanner.

[rob]

;D ;D ;D lol

When aarr were a alad werkin downt pit

[paulmathews]

Aye....I remember it well. On a Sunday we had roast germs and on a Monday a germ stew from the leftovers. If there was any left on Tuesday we had cold germ butties. Nowadays the kids wouldn't even recognise a germ much less know how to cook it. ;D

[rob]

HAHAHA I am lauging so hard ;D

Nothing better than a good germ buttie!