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There has to be a balance of responsable parenting and and knowing when to give them some space whenI met my now wife my boys were very young and newly seperated must have seemed a little paranoid as when in a shop with my wife and slightly older step daughter igot some funny looks when I said to her "don't go out of sight!"

Generally you have to climb trees scrape your knees etc if you fall of you bike enough times you become a better rider just don't get too hurt trying rather says it all about life don't you think
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Nice find.

There was a program on NZ TV last week about the way things have changed in society and how weak our immune systems are because children don't play and have the experiences of the past. Apparently we are missing out on vital things for our systems and it is playing havoc. I tried to find some articles on it the other day but must've picked the right words to google.

Exactly, Julie.
The manufacturers of cleaners and disinfectants are absolutely making a killing with this hysteria over the smallest of germs.
They are even fanning the flames with ads full of pseudo-science and out-landish claims about bacteria.
What people don't realise is, that these disinfectants and sanitisers are actually killing the very bacteria that help keep humans alive.

Without these necessary germs, our own immune systems become incapable of identifying and defending against the harmful germs.
I have a feeling that a great deal of "food allergies" prevalent in today's children are directly linked to this sanitisation and also to the fact that food these days is so over-processed and has a lot of the bad things like "vitamins" and "nutrition" taken out of them.

That's only my opinion though.

as a boy I fell out of a tall tree I was climbing and bounced on the branches coming down; nearly drowned; played in the dirt; never washed my hands; had blood poisoning on my foot cause I never wore shoes; got beat up by bullies; swam in a sewer pit with my eyes open - it was a sump for the district cause the sewerage had not reached the area and at eight years of age did not know any better; had cow shit thrown into my openmouth by my mean "mates"; been eaten by lice and bed bugs in refugee camps in Germany after the war; been starved as a child

yet I have had hardly a significant sick day in my life apart from contracteing some social diseases hahhahahh