My sister-in-law never allowed my nephew to play in the dirt- seriously she was too worried about germs. It is insane. My grandson is six and he is all boy, he has been allowed to play in the dirt, rough house, ride horses, etc. since he was really small. He always has scratches and bruises though and my daughter is paranoid that she will be accused of abuse. We have to watch him like a hawk and keep him toned down before he visits his other grandparents because they have a cow if he has a scratch and won’t let him play outside in the dirt. I don’t know where all this paranoia came from. I understand the supervision being stepped up due to the crazies but letting a child play is still possible if one isn’t nuts.
LOL!! I've often felt the same way. When my son was in the 1st grade he had fallen off of his bike and had a big scrape on his cheek. Over the weekend he was riding a bike in the woods and fell and got a huge scratch down his back from a pine cone and to end the week, he took a baseball to the face that ripped the scab off of the scrape on his cheek and blackened his eye. His teacher, who was a rookie was horrified, she took him to the nurse and she laughed. She had my other two boys previously.