Do you allow your kids to get their face painted ?

trafalgar_2

You gotta let some paint their faces ::)


some of em are ugly little beggars ;D

IvanOpinion

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.

I agree with you on this Tark but I think my friend was more concerned about more serious things e.g. cold sores ... once you have the virus I believe you pretty much have it for life ... if I understood him correctly (and I usually don't) the virus actually lives in the back of the neck and during times of stress, heat etc. it makes an appearance as a lovely crusty bit on the persons upper lip ... just to remind you that you had your face painted or got kissed by someone else infected with cold sores.

As I kid I used to eat worms and coal .. good protein ;D

Ivan

rach

i've been face-painting all afternoon our local fun-day....can't say out of loads of kids i saw any cold-sores! and all the kids loved their faces being sone - there are a lot of england flags walking around right now!

arkonite_babe

Youngest sprog got her face painted while on holidays, picked up a lovely case of conjunctivitis. Face painting? Never again unless disposable sponges are being used on each child!

DiggingOut

Give them chocolate to eat and let them paint their own.

The healthiest kids are the ones that eat dirt when young.

jb84344

I wish I hadn't read this board! My 3 year old has her face painted all the time but this has really worried me!

trafalgar_2

Give them chocolate to eat and let them paint their own.

The healthiest kids are the ones that eat dirt when young.

;D ;DMy son was circumcised when he was 8 ths old and could not wear a nappy for 10 days ..............kids eat dirt ;D ;D ;D

JIMJAM_4

when i was small i only ever had my face painted once because when i got home i broke out in a rash
I realised i was allergic to face paint

Papaumau

And now the patronising lecture....

Kids MUST have access to bacteria and viruses and pollen spores and fungal-spores if they are to build up a good enough auto-immune system.

Sometimes parents get paranoid about children getting diseases when we read about Meningitis and the E-Coliform germs but in actual fact it is VERY rare for children to aquire or die from such diseases. The innoculations that are available help in this way too by protecting our kids from Measels, Mumps and Rubella, ( don't really want to get into the MMR scandal here BTW ),  and diseases like Polio and Scarlet-Fever and Diptheria and Rhumatic-fever etc' are virtually nonexistent any more.

One of the greatest banes on the life of chldren now is Asthma and modern living is often given as the reason behind this incidence.

I say let them get their faces painted and let them eat worms....look at me...it did ME no harm ! :-X  

jockettuk

we had our school summer fair a few weeks ago and yes facepainting was a huge hit.. we buy the paints from reputable companys and we also advise the helpers doing the painting that if any child comes up and appears to have any open wound on there face (eczma cold sores) etc that they were not to proceed with the facepainting .. this has nothing to do with passing on these infections but in this day and age is so that we dont get sued for for makeing the little darlings faces worse.... comman sense tells you if your child has a poorly face whatever is the matter with them that you dont let them get there face painted .. other than that kids will be kids and schools are a breeding ground for all infections and nits arghhh lol