[blparent] floor cleaning

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

When Sarah was a baby, my stepson came running to me once, freaking out 
because she'd eaten some dirt from one of my potted plants.  I told him 
there isn't a human being alive on this planet who hasn't eaten dirt at some 
point, even him.  Actually, and I know it's in another thread, but we 
started joking around, singing a song about dirt after that.  I can't recall 
if it was an actual song somewhere, or if we made it up, but we added to it 
anyway.

"Dirt, dirt, good old dirt.
Dirt, dirt, dirt won't hurt.
Babies'll eat it but babies are dumb.
They wet their diapers and suck on their thumb.
Dirt, dirt, good old dirt."

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:09 AM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] floor cleaning

> I guess when it comes down to it, we try to make things as clean as 
> possible
> but a little dirt and hair help to build-up that immune system, right?
> SMILING  Actually, studies have shown that we shouldn't be too clean with
> kids because it doesn't help to build-up their immune systems.  I know 
> this
> is true because I have a friend with pretty severe OCD and she cleans
> obsessively in her house.  Her children are some of the sickest kids I've
> ever known.  Now, maybe they'd be sicker kids than the average bare 
> anyways
> just because of their personal immune systems, but I know that it didn't
> help to have their house be medical center clean and then to go to school
> with all the regular normal germs.  Pets also have shown to aid kids 
> immune
> systems for allergens which I think is pretty neat.
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of jan wright
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:12 AM
> To: blparent
> Subject: [blparent] floor cleaning
>
> this is a great thread.
> I can sweep and sweep my hard wood floors all day and still not get
> everything up.
> I just put it down to my lack of skill.
> And, we are looking for a house to move into (buy) that is closer to DH's
> work and a walkable busline.
> And, the houses we saw had partial carpet, which I dislike just because of
> the cleanliness factor. So, these suggestions are great ones.... ... esp
> when I think of my little guy rolling around on them.
> His wet hands attract any dirt and hair that is close to him.
>
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