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Good grief - I'm very much one of those who grew up with animals and a shocking lack of attention to personal hygiene! My mother always said there is nothing wrong with a bit of good clean dirt! I mucked around with various animals all the time and constantly ate food after handling without washing hands. As others said, it was a rare day when we were ill and we had no allergies or skin disorders. I realise that some parents are more - ehem - "sensitive" than others but surely this should be a parental decision rather than a state one?
 
Like HorseyScot, my little girl, who is 6, has been around horses and other animals since she was a baby, same as my friends at the yards children. The whole gang of them play in the mud, help poo pick, ride their ponies, rinse their hands under the hose pipe and eat their lunch !!!!!!! And i have to say that my little girl is one of the healthiest kids you could imagine, never has colds, bugs, none of these allergies or behavioral type problems that so many kids who are wrapped in cotton wool and stuck indoors have. All my friends kids are the same, they all sleep like logs cause of all the fresh air they get. my point is that just as many of you guys are saying, lots of children these days are kept cosetted (sp) byt their over protective paranoid parents and them we wonder why we have so many children with issues about one thing or another, or allergies or whatever theses days. it makes me mad!!
 
Sorry I am late joining in on this but was out all day yesterday.
I am sorry for the children and families affected by this e coli, but WHEN are parents going to start to take a little responsibility for their own children?
It seems that these days anything which goes wrong is instantly blamed on someone else.
I used to work with special needs children and have taken them to similar farm parks in the past. we always had wipes with us and wiped their hands immediately after they had touched the animals before taking them to wash their hands thoroughly.
Howevr like most of you here, my own child (now 27) and myself have lived with dogs, horses for most of our lives, eaten food etc at the stables without washing etc and never had any problems.
My gran used to say "eat a peck of dirt to give immunity"
 
get kids out from being on the play station/ tv and into the countryside.
we used to roam about the country getting filthy. we are hardly ever sick.
yes teaching them not to lick the animals is probably a good idea lol.
 
its ridiculous,my little boy has been coming with me to the farm since he was a few weeks old(he is now 3) he loves it we have two dogs who he constantly messes with and often find him with his hand half way down their throat!he helps clean out the chickens every day and only washes his hands when he comes home and no doubt puts his hands in his mouth eats biscuits etc inbetween.he has only had the odd cold and usual chicken pox etc but i think being around the animals has done him wonders.some mums really irritate me wiping this and sterilising that.we stopped sterilising at 6 months and have treat him as a normal human being since not wrapping him in cotton wool.my friend sterilised everything until her little boy was 2 and he is always ill now and she still cringes when she sees harry covered in muck but i think its perfectly healthy!!rant over :-)
 
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There have been a few posts on this earlier, we're farmers, we have three kids. All of whom have never had a sick day in their life (apart from the odd cold or tummy bug going round at school). Tonight for instance, all three were in the parlour helping me scrape up after milking, being kids they had sh*t everywhere
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The problem with children in general today, is they are too clean, and therefore never get a chance to build up a resistance to bugs, therefore when they do get exposed to germs, they can become very ill
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. Telling parents to not let their children touch animals is just ridiculous, how on earth are they meant to build up any resistance against everyday things?

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Couldn't agree more, I wonder how my brother and I ever survived and my 2 kids should have been continually ill. We live on a farm and Small Boy 2 has never even had a tummy bug. (Touch wood).
 
I have to say Enfys has a good point, those of us with young school age kids like to bring their friends home to see the animals. Now I'm quite concerned about it!
My kids are used to dirt and poop, but what about their friends? In todays 'sue everyone' society can you risk it?
 
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