You know, germs aren't the spawn of Satan. They're quite healthy in fact, people who get sick and recover are decidedly stronger and more resilient to later diseases, colds, infections and the like.
Yeah, I know why you did it, it's always done in the name of the children. But people, children have some of the best immune systems of all of us. They're designed TO get sick. So that they will become stronger, healthier, and more likly to pass on their genes. It's part of their setup. If you prevent them from getting sick, they will be MORE likly to get sick later in life, and they will be MORE likly to have serious symptons.
Your immune system is only good for about half your life, then it starts going downhill. That's why kids are supposed to get chicken pox, that's why it's deadly to adults. Because a child's immune system is fluid, it's flexible, it's new. And an adults immune system is slow, it is fixed, and the body had not adapted itsself to the threats presented by various diseases
So for the health and well being of your kids, don't be a clean freak, let them get sick, help them get healthy. Isolation from disease is NO defense.
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I agree, so many people disenfect anything that they are actually making their children less healthy. When you are bombarded with messages like "disenfect to protect," I think people get the wrong message. Kids are suppose to get dirty. Now in this ultra clean society there is a huge rise in autoimmune disease, allergies, and asthma, and people wonder why?
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