What's your position on letting children eat dirt? Yea / nay?
It makes him so happy...
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David Bellamy
I say let him eat what he wants. It will keep his defenses strong against infection. I experimented eating all sorts of things when I was a little boy. The one I remember most vividly from before age 4 was burnt match heads, which were readily available, since my father was a smoker in those days.
Toddlers eat weird stuff all of the time, and it’s mostly harmless, but a persistent desire to eat dirt or other non-foods is called pica, and is probably worth asking your doctor about. Cute picture! LOL.
Heh. I was mostly joking — he doesn’t actually eat much dirt, but he does taste it at least once whenever we go outside. Have to make sure it didn’t magically turn yummy, I guess. 🙂
As the saying goes, ‘have to eat a peck of dirt before ya die.’
I don’t know why you have to, though. (A peck is a dry measure of two gallons. That seems like a lot.)
There do appear to be real dangers to the developing immune system in too much elimination of dirt and such from the lives of children.
Yeah, I figured it was just typical silly toddler behavior. Sounds like he’s getting a jump start on his peck. Or maybe it is tasty. Have you tried it?
I say let him eat what he wants. It will keep his defenses strong against infection. I experimented eating all sorts of things when I was a little boy. The one I remember most vividly from before age 4 was burnt match heads, which were readily available, since my father was a smoker in those days.
If it’s clean dirt (you know, no dog poop, not heavily leaded, my standards are pretty low) I say party on.
That’s one thing I won’t mind my hypothetical, imaginary, fictional children eating 😀
Its got fiber! 🙂
Toddlers eat weird stuff all of the time, and it’s mostly harmless, but a persistent desire to eat dirt or other non-foods is called pica, and is probably worth asking your doctor about. Cute picture! LOL.
Heh. I was mostly joking — he doesn’t actually eat much dirt, but he does taste it at least once whenever we go outside. Have to make sure it didn’t magically turn yummy, I guess. 🙂
As the saying goes, ‘have to eat a peck of dirt before ya die.’
I don’t know why you have to, though. (A peck is a dry measure of two gallons. That seems like a lot.)
There do appear to be real dangers to the developing immune system in too much elimination of dirt and such from the lives of children.
Yeah, I figured it was just typical silly toddler behavior. Sounds like he’s getting a jump start on his peck. Or maybe it is tasty. Have you tried it?