You all must be surprised when you read the title… yes you read it right….dirt is really good for children… Dirt is a natural part of the process of children understanding life and growing…. There should be certain privileges that allow children to live fully, such as playing in a ground without the fear of getting dirty or painting a picture without a care about paint stains. All these little but crucial experiences help nurture creativity, and build confidence in a child. Such activities develop self confidence in children and build interpersonal skills in children in long run.

Above all, kids will develop resistance power in their bodies if they are playing in the dirt. If you are over protective about your child’s idea of playing in the dirt or touching things which have dust, then you are stopping their bodies to get naturally immunized.

Generally, when people have small kids at home they try to sanitise every small thing/ play toy of the baby. You should maintain hygiene but at the same time you should also allow them to play with their toys freely. When you do this, their body will build the resistance power and slowly will start fighting with the bacteria which attacks them.

In this process, slowly exposing to dust & dirt can only help baby to build the resistance power.

So next time, when you observe your child playing with friends in a play ground enjoy rather getting panic.

Have a happy parenting!!!

- Bhavana