I adore kids, especially little kids, but man, are they gross! Between their lack of propriety and their complete disregard for others around them, observing a room full of preschoolers has me frequently wincing.
Logan has a perpetually runny nose and rather than taking the enormous effort and amount of time it evidently takes to find a Kleenex, he uses his sleeve. The kid has crusty sleeves on a daily basis. To be fair, I had a constant runny nose as a kid too and I remember doing the same thing. Snot-coated arms just aren’t that repulsive when you’re a kid.
Entering Logan’s preschool classroom to pick him up, I’ll come upon several kids with their fingers up to the last knuckle in their noses, one scratching her rear end frantically, a host of slimy green noses, some with goo dripping down to lips where a miniature pink tongue periodically flicks out to catch it, not to mention the questionable substances adorning most of the kids’ clothing. These descriptions do not exclude my son, by the way.
Their grimy little hands are the worst. After a day with other kids, they’re visibly filthy and carrying who-knows-what sorts of viruses. I always make my kids wash their hands when they get home from school to wash off the “school germs.”
God bless them though, little kids don’t have an itch they don’t scratch, a bodily function they squelch, or an impulse they don’t indulge. And as gross and impolite as they can be, when they’re your own, it’s impossible not to hug, kiss and squeeze them anyway.
All while trying to avoid touching the crusty sleeves, of course.
What are some of the gross things your child does (like using his sleeves as a Kleenex)?
with 4 boys you can imagine all the constant crotch grabbing/holding/itching that goes on here. who need agar plates and petri dishes to grow bacteria, just grab a toddler or preschooler.
When my stepdaughter was little, I remember she would show us how she could squeeze white pus out of her left eye. That was pretty gross. Of course, she was pretty proud of her talent. Kids. Gotta love ‘em, anyway.
Jackie
my son will turn 2 at the end of summer. just after spring break, i was picking him up from the sitter. we were talking while my son was playing with the dog. he (my son) had crawled in the dog’s crate and was playing around in the blankets and pillows and bed. he started taking it all out of the crate…and then i saw him put something in his mouth. i grabbed him, the sitter held him down, and i forced my fingers in his mouth. neither of us had any idea what he could possibly have. after nearly losing a finger because my son thought this was a fun game (as he bit harder and laughed the entire time we were trying to save him from himself), i felt the thing start to dissolve. he found a small whopper egg under the dog’s bed and decided it couldn’t go to waste.
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