The scene of this photo, which seems taken from a science fiction movie in which a small visitor from another planet is seen by an earthly lady, is not such. It is just a frame of a video that has been running on the internet for a long time in which some children are playing in the mud to the point of going full, up, of the mixture of earth and water, in a scene that not everyone Parents would like them.
Isn't it bad for your health? Is it good? Would you let your children wallow in the mud like those in this video?
Do we let them do this
Well, no. Normally not because then they enter the house and leave everything lost, and then you have to clean what they have stained, in addition to having to bathe them by removing mud even from their ears.
Although there are always times when we have more patience or we care less that they do (for example, if we are on vacation), and we have the doubt of whether it is positive or if it can harm them in any way.
Is it good?
It has long been considered that children who are dirtier, who are always rolling on the ground, are at risk of catching more diseases. However, if we take into account the latest studies in this regard This is not like this.
A year ago, for example, we explained that for children's health it was better to wash the dishes by hand than with a dishwasher, because they were less sterile. The consequence was that the children suffered less allergies.
The same happened when the children ate fermented or bought food on a farm. When there are more microbes, the immune system becomes more active and learns to live with them or fight them, producing antibodies that decrease the risk of allergies.
But it is not only good at the health level, but It is positive emotionally and cognitively: Children feel freer, they can explore, play, get to know the mud, nature, have fun with other children ... what childhood should be like and we have hardly seen in children today.
Do not you think?
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