It’s because parents these days make their kids live in a virtual “plastic bubble”.
We are meant to play in dirt to be around germs, that’s how the immune system gets developed....Use It, or Lose It!
That may in fact be true.
Hear, hear! I'd watch a co-worker's child sometimes and she would get mad because her precious little pumpkin's designer outfits would get dirty when my kids would take her outside and heaven forbid if she got a shin scraped (which never happened) or if the dogs came within 10 feet of her. Germs weren't allowed around that porcelain doll but never mind that she was a biter who's mama didn't care about the germs she was spreading.
Growing up, we were peanut farmers. The whole county grew peanuts. Wanna talk about peanut dust? The school got free gov peanut butter so there was no question that you'd get it in some form on your lunch tray every day of the year. Not one student was ever rushed to the nurse's office. No one ever heard of peanut allergies. No one ever had a special lunch tray for any allergy. Not one classroom was allergy free. We gobbled up any treats someone's mama sent to school and no one died.