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Your logic has many bugs. What's wrong with just explaining that they shouldn't eat stuff from the ground. Period?

jerf 10y ago
Do you have children? "Explaining they shouldn't do X" and "the child don't do X" are, ah, much less correlated than you might like. At times they can be downright reverse correlated.
coldtea 10y ago
>What's wrong with just explaining that they shouldn't eat stuff from the ground. Period? Wasting food for no good reason. And making them paranoid about germs.
- rantanplan 10y ago
  That makes sense(especially about the germs paranoia).
  - coldtea 10y ago
    The way I see it, if they're too small, you need to watch them anyway, or else they will put everything on their mouth, not just dropped food. If they are over that, they're smart enough to understand that they don't eat jelly sandwitch off of the floor, or something they dropped in a public street. But for a casual hard food stuff they dropped on the kitchen floor or living room etc, they can sweep it and eat it -- and get some germ resistance too. E.g.: Just as a baby's brain needs stimulation, input, and interaction to develop normally, the young immune system is strengthened by exposure to everyday germs so that it can learn, adapt, and regulate itself, notes Thom McDade, PhD, associate professor and director of the Laboratory for Human Biology Research at Northwestern University. Exactly which germs seem to do the trick hasn't yet been confirmed. But new research offers clues. In a recent study, McDade's team found that children who were exposed to more animal feces and had more cases of diarrhea before age 2 had less incidence of inflammation in the body as they grew into adulthood. Inflammation has been linked to many chronic adulthood illnesses, such as heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. "We're moving beyond this idea that the immune system is just involved in allergies, autoimmune diseases, and asthma to think about its role in inflammation and other degenerative diseases," McDade says. "Microbial exposures early in life may be important… to keep inflammation in check in adulthood." (WebMD) or: http://news.ubc.ca/2016/08/10/why-your-kids-should-play-in-the-dirt/ http://news.ubc.ca/2016/08/10/why-your-kids-should-play-in-t...
jsz0 10y ago
Society. Kids that are raised outside of what is considered the acceptable social norm often have problems adjusting when they get older. For example I actively try to avoid eating out at restaurants with people who are too fussy about their food. It's usually an awkward uncomfortable scene. I'd much rather share a meal with a '5 second rule' type of person.
- rantanplan 10y ago
  Ok, although I didn't get the part about "eating out at restaurants with people who are too fussy about their food". Are there adults out there who are fussy with their food? In what way?

jerf 10y ago

Do you have children? "Explaining they shouldn't do X" and "the child don't do X" are, ah, much less correlated than you might like. At times they can be downright reverse correlated.

coldtea 10y ago

>What's wrong with just explaining that they shouldn't eat stuff from the ground. Period? Wasting food for no good reason. And making them paranoid about germs.

rantanplan 10y ago
That makes sense(especially about the germs paranoia).
- coldtea 10y ago
  The way I see it, if they're too small, you need to watch them anyway, or else they will put everything on their mouth, not just dropped food. If they are over that, they're smart enough to understand that they don't eat jelly sandwitch off of the floor, or something they dropped in a public street. But for a casual hard food stuff they dropped on the kitchen floor or living room etc, they can sweep it and eat it -- and get some germ resistance too. E.g.: Just as a baby's brain needs stimulation, input, and interaction to develop normally, the young immune system is strengthened by exposure to everyday germs so that it can learn, adapt, and regulate itself, notes Thom McDade, PhD, associate professor and director of the Laboratory for Human Biology Research at Northwestern University. Exactly which germs seem to do the trick hasn't yet been confirmed. But new research offers clues. In a recent study, McDade's team found that children who were exposed to more animal feces and had more cases of diarrhea before age 2 had less incidence of inflammation in the body as they grew into adulthood. Inflammation has been linked to many chronic adulthood illnesses, such as heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. "We're moving beyond this idea that the immune system is just involved in allergies, autoimmune diseases, and asthma to think about its role in inflammation and other degenerative diseases," McDade says. "Microbial exposures early in life may be important… to keep inflammation in check in adulthood." (WebMD) or: http://news.ubc.ca/2016/08/10/why-your-kids-should-play-in-the-dirt/ http://news.ubc.ca/2016/08/10/why-your-kids-should-play-in-t...

jsz0 10y ago

Society. Kids that are raised outside of what is considered the acceptable social norm often have problems adjusting when they get older. For example I actively try to avoid eating out at restaurants with people who are too fussy about their food. It's usually an awkward uncomfortable scene. I'd much rather share a meal with a '5 second rule' type of person.

rantanplan 10y ago
Ok, although I didn't get the part about "eating out at restaurants with people who are too fussy about their food". Are there adults out there who are fussy with their food? In what way?