Comments on: Dirt For Your Health? http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/ Travels and Journeys... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Don http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2673 Don Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:00:34 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2673 Ah, kids and dirt... it takes me back when I was a kid and I used to roll around in the stuff all day long. In fact, I'm sure I still have some of the dirt from my childhood still hanging around the place to this day! It's a collector's item now. lol Ah, kids and dirt… it takes me back when I was a kid and I used to roll around in the stuff all day long. In fact, I’m sure I still have some of the dirt from my childhood still hanging around the place to this day! It’s a collector’s item now. lol

]]> By: Heather http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2671 Heather Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:47:31 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2671 Mark: If a guy can eat dirt and grow up to play NCAA football, it probably can't be too bad for you!   Larry: Thanks very much! I'll make a point of checking out your site this weekend.   Mark H: Ha! Not "ignorant", just too fast a typist for your own brain...   The whole anti-bacterial, ultra-hygienic swing falls under the "if some is good, more is better" attitude. Not always the case... (but I agree a "slight" change would be best!)   Intrepid: I remember setting up camp with my ex and watching my oldest boy, then a toddler, pick up a penny from the ground and pop it into his mouth. My startled shout is probably what prompted him to swallow it. -But there were no ill effects, and my children went on to swallow much worse things than a copper penny from a forest floor... Mark: If a guy can eat dirt and grow up to play NCAA football, it probably can’t be too bad for you!
 
Larry: Thanks very much! I’ll make a point of checking out your site this weekend.
 
Mark H: Ha! Not “ignorant”, just too fast a typist for your own brain…
 
The whole anti-bacterial, ultra-hygienic swing falls under the “if some is good, more is better” attitude. Not always the case… (but I agree a “slight” change would be best!)
 
Intrepid: I remember setting up camp with my ex and watching my oldest boy, then a toddler, pick up a penny from the ground and pop it into his mouth. My startled shout is probably what prompted him to swallow it. -But there were no ill effects, and my children went on to swallow much worse things than a copper penny from a forest floor…

]]> By: Heather http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2670 Heather Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:38:21 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2670 Sadia: You're right regarding the benefits of a more relaxed attitude! How desirable is a pristine home if its price is a family's joy?   Thanks Cate. You make a very good point. It always seems to come down to "balance". "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" comes to mind: not to hot/not too cold...   JJ: One wonders what sort of home she grew up in to be compelled in that way! Very sad. She didn't create a very welcoming place for a curious child to visit.   My Grandma Prior was always very accommodating of my "big ideas" when we visited. She let me put on plays, concerts, fashion shows and circuses (and anything else that occurred to me) without a blink. I'm sure we generally trashed her place at times, but she was always there asking if we needed refreshments! Lucky me, huh? Sadia: You’re right regarding the benefits of a more relaxed attitude! How desirable is a pristine home if its price is a family’s joy?
 
Thanks Cate. You make a very good point. It always seems to come down to “balance”. “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” comes to mind: not to hot/not too cold…
 
JJ: One wonders what sort of home she grew up in to be compelled in that way! Very sad. She didn’t create a very welcoming place for a curious child to visit.
 
My Grandma Prior was always very accommodating of my “big ideas” when we visited. She let me put on plays, concerts, fashion shows and circuses (and anything else that occurred to me) without a blink. I’m sure we generally trashed her place at times, but she was always there asking if we needed refreshments! Lucky me, huh?

]]> By: Intrepid http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2679 Intrepid Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:14:27 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2679 I love it.... Let's all go camping and roll around a bit! :) A little dirt - Builds Character! I love it…. Let’s all go camping and roll around a bit! :)

A little dirt – Builds Character!

]]> By: Mark H http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2680 Mark H Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:57:00 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2680 Oops - wrong "there" - I meant "their". What an ignorant typo... Oops – wrong “there” – I meant “their”. What an ignorant typo…

]]> By: Mark H http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2678 Mark H Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:55:27 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2678 I think that is why many younger folks get ill when they travel nowadays. There immune system hasn't built up enough to fight the natural differences when we go somewhere else. I think there will be a slow move back towards slightly (and I emphasise slightly) less hygenic living than the pure days today of bottled water only, everything washed etc etc.. I think that is why many younger folks get ill when they travel nowadays. There immune system hasn’t built up enough to fight the natural differences when we go somewhere else. I think there will be a slow move back towards slightly (and I emphasise slightly) less hygenic living than the pure days today of bottled water only, everything washed etc etc..

]]> By: Larry Peters http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2677 Larry Peters Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:57:33 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2677 Heather: A brilliant blog! I have just opened a new travel "channel" on my website at www.babyboomrevie.com and wondered whether you would be interested in doing some cross posting at least to get us started...let me know Larry Heather: A brilliant blog! I have just opened a new travel “channel” on my website
at http://www.babyboomrevie.com
and wondered whether you would be interested in doing some cross posting at least to get us started…let me know

Larry

]]> By: Mark http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2676 Mark Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:18:06 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2676 Great article Heather! I grew up playing in the desert and exploring (New Mexico).....I can remember eating a little dirt as a kid......ultra cleanliness is probably not normal and at the least unrealistic and annoying... Great article Heather! I grew up playing in the desert and exploring (New Mexico)…..I can remember eating a little dirt as a kid……ultra cleanliness is probably not normal and at the least unrealistic and annoying…

]]> By: JJLoch http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2682 JJLoch Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:47:43 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2682 Great pic!!! Hugs, JJ Great pic!!!

Hugs, JJ

]]> By: JJLoch http://www.heatherdugan.com/blogBETA/2009/01/31/dirt-for-your-health/comment-page-1/#comment-2681 JJLoch Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:47:04 +0000 http://www.heatherdugan.com/blog/heart-to-heart/dirt-for-your-health/#comment-2681 Heather, that article ROCKS. My grandmother was very fussy and nervous about keeping her house clean. Not one thing was ever out of order or not shiny clean. When we visited her we were afraid we'd leave lint on her couch and not have an invitation back into the house. If we rode in her car, she placed newspapers down on the plastic mats. She was like this for years and then had a surgery that somehow became infected. She died of that a few weeks later. It was ironic how she polished every surface she had but in the end the dirt got her. Hugs, JJ Heather, that article ROCKS. My grandmother was very fussy and nervous about keeping her house clean. Not one thing was ever out of order or not shiny clean. When we visited her we were afraid we’d leave lint on her couch and not have an invitation back into the house. If we rode in her car, she placed newspapers down on the plastic mats.

She was like this for years and then had a surgery that somehow became infected. She died of that a few weeks later. It was ironic how she polished every surface she had but in the end the dirt got her.

Hugs, JJ

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