It’s Official: Dirt Don’t Hurt

All your excuses for not dealing with the kid’s bath time tonight are validated by a new Q&A style book entitled, Dirt is Good authored by two of the world’s top scientists and one of the world’s top science writers (all parents).

From probiotics (mostly good) to five second rule (time doesn’t matter, but consider the place) to eating dirt (meh), Dirt is Good is a thorough Q&A of all things dirty and germy in our kids’ lives.

Who hasn’t googled something along the lines of “My kid just drank a bucket of aquarium water — what do I do?” …no? Just us? Well, anything in that vain you’ll be overwhelmed with answers from parents on the side of “WHAT? Go to the ER now!” and on the other end “Meh, it’s probably fine I lived with walruses when I was a kid and look how I turned out.”

If the internet is chock-full of anything, it’s speculation and misinformation about the risks and benefits of what most parents think of as simply germs. The book informs us, scientists now call this the microbiome: “the combined activity of all the tiny organisms inside our bodies and the surrounding environment that have an enormous impact on our health and well-being.

Looking for ideas on where to get those kids good and germy… err… microbiome-y? Look no further than Galore from exploring to survival camp, we’ve got it all.