Would you let your child play in the mud?

September 10th, 2007 | by Michael |
child play
Katie asked:


Some parks departments are beginning to have events where summer have a well so that huge mud? kids play inside. Parents are known to dress their kids in the short or bathing suits that may be ruined and the kids then hosed gi?. Take your child to an event like this?

  1. 35 Responses to “Would you let your child play in the mud?”

  2. By strawberry on Sep 11, 2007 | Reply

    Absolutely! Sounds like fun

  3. By SLICK TRE on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply

    NO
    thats stupid who would want to get dirty with mud!!???

  4. By KELLEY on Sep 15, 2007 | Reply

    Sure I would…my 10 year old would love it as would most kids! I played in all that stuff when I was small…dirt won’t hurt then as long as it is clean.

  5. By nobudE on Sep 17, 2007 | Reply

    yes do it.
    A it’s fun
    B it’s good for their immune system. (super clean kids are sick kids)

  6. By Your Best Fiend on Sep 20, 2007 | Reply

    Sure, if the kids are interested (and I had kids). :)

  7. By silverbirch on Sep 23, 2007 | Reply

    Yes - absolutely fantastic. Total lack of hygiene, it is exactly what they need. Children are kept too sterile, which is why they get so many illnesses strangely enough. You need exposure to dirt.

  8. By liv*laugh on Sep 25, 2007 | Reply

    of course. god made dirt, dirt dont hurt. i mean there kids. they need some fun in there lifes…….let them get dirty. kids will be kids.

  9. By Tsalagi Girl on Sep 27, 2007 | Reply

    I don’t have children, but that seems kinda unsanitary to me. Why not just take them to a swimming pool? It would be fine for a kid to play in mud puddles in your yard, but in a mud PIT? What if some other kid went to the bathroom in there or something? GROSS!

  10. By egypt_as_the_sunset_beautiful on Sep 28, 2007 | Reply

    oh my gosh thats awful!!
    Mud have backterea and bugs and ewww grooss
    i don’t have kids but no way am i taken mine there if i had some

  11. By titojing on Sep 30, 2007 | Reply

    Yes if they are old enough. Children need to be exposed to germs at a young age so they can develop immunities to them later in life

  12. By rich_n_karen_carpenter on Sep 30, 2007 | Reply

    Definitely not. Why would I want my child to be muddy and dirty just to have fun? There are other fun things to do that to play in the mud. The child would benefit, but look in the long term. You’re going to have to wash him, wash his muddy clothes, and he might just like playing in the mud when he’s older. Remember, every decision you make affects a child’s life.

  13. By momma whitley on Oct 1, 2007 | Reply

    You know I am all for my son playing in the mud or running in the sprinkler at home! To me at a public event like that, it could be dangerous. Sanitary reasons or stupid idiots out there. I am far from paranoid but probably wouldn’t allow my child to do that. Water is another story you can see, but mud you can’t and you never know. If the children already knew and were looking forward to it, suggests a mud pit at home.

  14. By KayLyn on Oct 3, 2007 | Reply

    Why not? Getting dirty is part of being a kid?!?

  15. By tonib1989 on Oct 6, 2007 | Reply

    i would not no way.. they will get dirty.

  16. By dixi on Oct 9, 2007 | Reply

    Sure, why not? Live a little!!!

  17. By edland38611 on Oct 11, 2007 | Reply

    yes.kids should have as much fun as they can whilst young.

  18. By mia2kl2002 on Oct 14, 2007 | Reply

    That’s ridiculous. The whole fun of playing in the mud as a child was the spontaneity of it !!! Not being sure if you were going to get in trouble, etc. This makes no sense at all… telling your kid to jump in the mud and get dirty.

    Just another way that life is really going over the edge for kids. God help us.

    I???mia??†

  19. By mommajoebird on Oct 14, 2007 | Reply

    Absolutely!!! Didn’t we all play in mud puddles? Let them explore all this wonderful world has to offer. It’s nothing that soap & water won’t clean away.

  20. By JS on Oct 17, 2007 | Reply

    Yes……..sounds like fun to me!

  21. By Toni on Oct 19, 2007 | Reply

    I would and I did. I even joined in occasionally. Children should not only be allowed to get dirty on occasion but taught that it can be fun and educational. Young children especially learn through their senses. Let them be kids. Life is too ordered and structured later let them enjoy it now.

  22. By Shelly F on Oct 19, 2007 | Reply

    Sounds like fun to me. Sure, why not?

  23. By Sylvia M on Oct 21, 2007 | Reply

    I played mud volleyball in college and it was a riot. My kids are too young right now to enjoy it but I would certainly let them if they wanted to when they got a little older–and join them too!

  24. By juicie813 on Oct 21, 2007 | Reply

    Why not, when I was a child I enjoyed making mud pies. I don’t see any harm in it.

  25. By ally'smom on Oct 22, 2007 | Reply

    my only concern would be lead …sometimes lead poisoning is in the soil I’d not want lead tainted mud in my kids mouths. In gereal i have no problem with it and would let my kids the only thing i can think - about it would be the lead thing/.

  26. By katheek77 on Oct 25, 2007 | Reply

    Heck yeah.
    That being said, my husband is in the military, and we’ve taken kids to the 82nd obstacle course where they HAVE to crawl through mud. LOL.
    As long as it was safe (ie. there weren’t kids going CRAZY), I’m all for it.

  27. By LemonTea on Oct 26, 2007 | Reply

    Its one thing to your little kid dabble with some mud pies for a while, and another for adults to do what adults in our culture have often done; and that is to borrow ignorant and/or wild behavior that some ignorant adults engage in and make sure children are introduced to it.

    What - has someone seen Girls-Gone-Wild or else some of these mud-fests that some older people do and decided that would be fun for children? Whether its parents buying grown up clothes for their little kids, making sure small children can keep up with older brothers and sisters by giving them things like video games, or adults’ being afraid to be uncool and say that kids shouldn’t do some thing; its always adults who contribute to things kids do that later turn out to be a giant problem.

    Kids of a certain type of intellect would not find wallowing in mud with a gang of other kids fun; and the kids who would find it fun don’t need the encouragement.

    My mother used to have a phrase she’d use to refer to this type of thing - “savage amusement”.

    It would even be one thing if a bunch of kids just got a little crazy one day and did this type of thing on their own; but it is a completely different thing for a bunch of morons who run parks to think up this stupid activity and offer it as fun for kids. It isn’t about the mud. Its about the mentality of this type of activity for a group of kids who are either young enough to need their activities to be activities that encourage a certain type of intellectual development or old enough so they should have outgrown the enjoyment of such a stupid activity.

    Someone should write to some of the “geniuses” who are thought this up and ask if they think its great how many college kids go wild on Spring break or how many drink as much as they do to the point where their college years are nothing but a big party or whether anyone finds it obnoxious that after something like a Superbowl win the police have to guard against rioting by even the fans of the winning team in the city where the game was held.

    Most people have concerns about the level of behavior that is often seen in today’s teenagers and young adults. It has degraded considerably over the last couple of decades, and it is on a level that is far beyond what any past generations did for fun. What most people don’t seem to realize that it is probably far less peer influence than it is the influence and failure of adults to direct kids toward constructive activities and mentalities while they’re young.

    This is yet one more stupid, stupid, thing that some adults somewhere have thought up. (I’m not saying kids should never have this kind of fun sponteously, but when adults think it up and encourage kids who may not have even thought of it on their own its a whole different kind of thing.)

    If there’s one thing worse than adults who don’t get involved its adults who get involved with their stupid ideas. This is a case where the activity itself may be reasonably harmless but the message it sends is not.

  28. By delux_version on Oct 29, 2007 | Reply

    You know I was about to scream that this is GREAT, but then some insightful person said that in a public mud bath it might not be too cool after all. I mean what they do in pools is one thing but in a mud bath. Maybe not such a good idea.

  29. By grapelady911 on Oct 31, 2007 | Reply

    Can I play too?! We have a big Mud Volley Ball game for Charity here, its alot of fun. Sure I would take my kid.

  30. By jennyve25 on Nov 3, 2007 | Reply

    If the dirt isnt full rubbish, like pipes, and other things that might cut her/him and cause an infection, if its clean dirt then I would. (clean dirt is an oxymoron I know) Dirt actually builds immunity in children so its not all bad.

    also on a note to lemon tea…how does an adult playing in the dirt make them of caveman like mentality? I just dont get it?

  31. By virgo_thang_694 on Nov 6, 2007 | Reply

    OH HELL YEA! I’D GO! to heck with my kid! *MUD PIT WOO!* lol.yes i would take my kid sounds like a load of fun! Plus its great for skin.

  32. By kerijeanbean on Nov 7, 2007 | Reply

    I let my child play in the mud at home, but when we went to a function like that I didn’t let him play in the puddle. The puddle was under the little bridge and there were several small children in diapers that had been playing in the mud. One of them had an obviously poopy diaper and it seemed very unsanitary to me. Otherwise I have no problem with my kids playing in the mud.

  33. By billy f on Nov 10, 2007 | Reply

    You might want to deworm them, but other than that it should be OK. I did it as a child and I never get sick now. Like others have said there are other ways to have fun, but once in a while should be OK.

  34. By krystal on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply

    yeah, it sounds like a lot of fun, i would have loved it as a kid. who cares if they get a little dirty, how fun.

  35. By Chocoholic on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply

    I don’t know that I’d take them to and event somewhere else, but they play in the mud at home sometimes. I don’t care as long as they don’t track it all over the house.

  36. By Michelle on Nov 13, 2007 | Reply

    For sure! Sounds like fun, just as long as it is well supervised and doesn’t get out of control. A little mud (or in this case a lot) never hurt anyone :)

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