Do you allow your kids to get their face painted ?

IvanOpinion

I was out with a dentist friend last night (keep on the good side of him incase I need any work done) and we got round, somehow to the point that he would never allow his kids to get their faces painted.  His attitude was that there is usually one brush that is 'wiggled' in a common pot of water that is used for all kids and is a breeding ground for germs.  Therefore if one kid has a contagious disease (eg. cold sores, he went through a list of diseases longer than my arm) it could be easily transmitted to others.  I suggested that they put some sort of treatment in the water to kill germs but he said that in the first instance it would not work and in the second any that he has seen put nothing in the water.

What do you think or, like me, have you never thought about this ?

Ivan

ac

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never thought about it,

have let the kids faces be painted in the past & yes would continue to do so      :o  

(its not worth the argument, they are much stronger willed than i am  6 & 4 year old boys    :o        :(  )

System

Have no kids (yet) but have nieces & nephews who all loved face painting when younger.   I would still let them have it done. Surely children will pick all sorts of things up from being with each other in school anyway, & children aren't too fussy with the hand-washing at the best of times.

I think generally, as a society we worry too much about germs these days. I read somewhere that it's our over-zealous cleanliness that's leading to all these super-bugs. All these disinfectants and cleaning products with "antibacterial" stuff in them is causing them to become resistant.

Tony_H_3

Forget the "Brushes" what about the "Sponges" eeewww!! ;D

ac

ooooooooo, STOP IT

Tony_H_3

ooooooooo, STOP IT

     

O.K ;D

flossie_2

Germs are one thing and its a fair point that kids are exposed to them from all angles - maybe one way to build up immunity? The stuff in the face paints themselves would worry me more, I think.

Papaumau

Right on "Tark"......

I think generally, as a society we worry too much about germs these days. I read somewhere that it's our over-zealous cleanliness that's leading to all these super-bugs. All these disinfectants and cleaning products with "antibacterial" stuff in them is causing them to become resistant.

Our kids are now more sensitive to disease and allergy because we mollycoddle them too much !

All of those germ-killing anti-bac products are turning our homes into operating-theatres instead of places to live and build up immunities.

My children AND my grandchildren love to get facepainted and my youngest grand-daughter still eats worms....( Mind you, I thought that she might have given it up when she turned twenty two ! )

ac

O.K  ;D

silly

Papaumau

Strewth.....

Communication by emoticons only.....

It makes the mind boggle !

::)

ac

YOU are easily surprised papaumau           :o  :o


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