Do your kids play barefoot in the backyard?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Based on some of these responses, it should be no surprise that anxiety rates have been skyrocketing for kids. Kids should be able to go through life without being told to worry about animal feces when walking through grass — although I don’t recommend deliberately walking in poop and would mention this to my kid if she didn’t already naturally know to avoid this.

I am 50 and from Texas. I always wore shoes when playing outside and so did my friends. Snakes, cockleburrs, fire ants. Pick your pain. My mom is also from the South and claimed we would get "worms" if we ran around without shoes. I personally think my mom was concerned that neighbors would think we were low class if we ran around without shoes.

Toxoplasmosis, Trich, Hook, Pin, Tape, worms etc. are real. Some are not as common these days, as more swine or bovine spread, but some are definitely still around if cats or dogs roam or rats are around.

Yes and strongyloids ick

[Anonymous]

Worms from going barefoot would be pretty rare in the USA. Animal worms don’t infect humans. https://borntolivebarefoot.org/bare-feet-are-unlikely-to-get-a-hookworm-infection/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worms from going barefoot would be pretty rare in the USA. Animal worms don’t infect humans. https://borntolivebarefoot.org/bare-feet-are-unlikely-to-get-a-hookworm-infection/

There are a lot of human worms out there my dear

[Anonymous]

No. Ground wasps, fire ants, thorns, rodent poop, and all kinds of leached in fertilizer, pesticide, chemicals, bugs, worm eggs, nematodes, animal poop etc.

We usually wear flipflops or shoes. If our soil becomes decontaminated again, I am all for going barefoot. We also do not wear outdoors shoes inside the house. We have shoes for indoors and we take off our shoes at the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Ground wasps, fire ants, thorns, rodent poop, and all kinds of leached in fertilizer, pesticide, chemicals, bugs, worm eggs, nematodes, animal poop etc.

We usually wear flipflops or shoes. If our soil becomes decontaminated again, I am all for going barefoot. We also do not wear outdoors shoes inside the house. We have shoes for indoors and we take off our shoes at the door.

Do you even open your windows ever? Is there an air lock before entering your home?

[Anonymous]

We adopted a dog who had such a bad hookworm infestation that it took 6 months to deworm him completely. Our vet said to pick his waste up immediately and not to walk in our yard without shoes on. Hookworms can live in the soil. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

If the weather's nice out I let my five year old go barefoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Worms from going barefoot would be pretty rare in the USA. Animal worms don’t infect humans. https://borntolivebarefoot.org/bare-feet-are-unlikely-to-get-a-hookworm-infection/

Lame troll attempt.