Make 'em play in the dirt

via Instapundit {natch}

Something that ex-farm kids who pay attention already know!

A kid who grew up on a farm having asthma is not unheard of... I just dont know any.

And yet 'concerned moms' everywhere are wiping down every conceivable surface in the house with chlorox wipes. Those filthy bugger bacteria, dontcha know.

This aint new, BTW.. it was twenty/thirty years ago experts explained kids who had 'pica disorder' were at relatively little risk from bacteria in the soil, rather it was other factors which should be concerning.

sidenote: eating raw potato is a sign of pica? Since when!