Raising Children
Dirty Rats have better immune system than clean lab cousins:
Gritty rats and mice living in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems than their squeaky clean cousins that frolic in cushy antiseptic labs, two studies indicate.The lesson for humans: Clean living may make us sick.
In the UK, playgrounds have been made so safe that kids would rather play “in dangerous areas such as railway lines and roadsides”:
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents believes places to play should be exciting and stimulating to contribute to youngsters’ physical and psychological development. …He warned that parents have to accept children may get hurt while playing. …
“If the play area is not exciting and stimulating, children are going to play somewhere else,” he added.
And don’t put kids in childcare!
Younger children with stay-at-home parents have a better chance of healthy emotional and behavioural development than some children in formal care, a national study has found.
I guess it shows that, if you wait long enough, studies will inevitably report results we always knew!
Great collection of links.