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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) issue, Anxiety issue, or what????
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<blockquote data-quote="OTE" data-source="post: 18239"><p>Marg, in my humble opinion this is another cultural thing. In the US we have anti-bacterial everything. They make countertops, cutting boards, floor cleaners, laundry detergents, even shoes now, not to mention hand soaps and so forth antibacterial. So society is kind of telling us that kids should be bacteria free. To an 8 yr old with black and white thinking then when he thinks there are germs on something... if bacteria is bad... I hear you and happen to agree that having everything bacteria free or with some chemicals in it to make it bacteria free isn't healthy. Frankly, I use very few of the products that are bacteria free. I'd also note that despite this my kids very rarely get ill. They might get a cold or flu that's going around once or twice a year but that's it. Think pink eye went through my house once many years ago. My older two didn't get the chicken pox vaccine and got that in late elementary. Anyway, people do make the argument that you do including many peds. But culture aka companies who sell this stuff, would have us believe that we shouldn't ever have a bacteria in the house.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OTE, post: 18239"] Marg, in my humble opinion this is another cultural thing. In the US we have anti-bacterial everything. They make countertops, cutting boards, floor cleaners, laundry detergents, even shoes now, not to mention hand soaps and so forth antibacterial. So society is kind of telling us that kids should be bacteria free. To an 8 yr old with black and white thinking then when he thinks there are germs on something... if bacteria is bad... I hear you and happen to agree that having everything bacteria free or with some chemicals in it to make it bacteria free isn't healthy. Frankly, I use very few of the products that are bacteria free. I'd also note that despite this my kids very rarely get ill. They might get a cold or flu that's going around once or twice a year but that's it. Think pink eye went through my house once many years ago. My older two didn't get the chicken pox vaccine and got that in late elementary. Anyway, people do make the argument that you do including many peds. But culture aka companies who sell this stuff, would have us believe that we shouldn't ever have a bacteria in the house. [/QUOTE]
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