why do lower class people let their babies walk on the floor of stores and stuff when its filled with germs?

Question

and never wash their hands or watch their babies. I'm so sick of seeing people do that crap. Thats so dirty and unhealthy

Answer 1

yea I know just hold the damn kid

Answer 2

wow. You just put everyone into the same category don't you. I am lower class, as i am on a disability pension. I am far from what you are talking about. My children were always clean. They were in their pusher and nicely dressed. If they were out of the pusher they had shoes on and could walk well. I would wash their hands before they ate. You need some tolerance and some brains to realise it is not the amount of money a person has that makes them do things like this. Money does not make a person any better than one without money

Answer 3

I am lower class people. I can afford everything I need and then some but you can just call me lower class and smart with the money I do have.

My husband does this and I hate it. He thinks just because we allow our son to play on our floors at home he should be able to play and crawl around on floors in hospitals and waiting areas. You are right. It is dirty to allow a child to play on floors where you don't even know whose shoes have been where. I mean someone could have stepped in dog crap and your just letting your kid play in it. Luckily I'm always there to stop him from doing it. It embarrasses me though. As for walking--I think if the toddler is old enough and in shoes--it's fine. Kids are more immune to things then people think.

Answer 4

Believe it or not, there's nearly as many germs in the air, and babies actually have a much better immune system than the public seems to believe. In the first few minutes of their lives they're exposed to over a million different bacteria and viruses even in a sterile hospital environment. In fact, babies that are shielded from many of the bacteria are often more sickly later on. Perhaps these "lower class" people actually have a better understanding of a babies immune system than you do?

Answer 5

Hate to break it to you, but it's NOT just lower class people. I know a well off family who don't believe in restricting their 2 kids. In other words, if they don't want to wear shoes, they don't have to. They have a 7 mo old baby who screams if you try and put clothes on her (including shoes), so they don't. And they go out in public like this. She crawls around the floor in restaurants, malls, anywhere she pleases.
One time a manager said something about the baby crawling on the floor naked and the mom said that she didn't care what he thought. She had the money and the influence to fire him.
I can see where you'd think upper class folks are better people.

Answer 6

Actually that could be haelthy! One possible reason to more allergies, asthma more flus and ear infections is that we no longer get in touch with theese quite harmless bacteria when we are small.

That leads to a poorer immunesystem, since it never gets the chance to practice. And then when you finally meet some dirt you get really sick.

Of course you should take care of your babys hygiene, but do not over do it. Kids are supposed to come in touch with some bacteria and dirt, and this will not harm them. After all our bodies are designed and dveloped to take care of it.

So I´m all for the floors!

Answer 7

Like you can keep your baby from all the germs in the world! Teaching them to walk can involve letting their feet touch the floor! Now what goes into their mouths is a different story. Yes washing hands, bodies etc is very important. But come on.....germs are everywhere. They will eventually find them.

Answer 8

My daughter is 15 mos old and she walks wherever I take her. However she wears shoes and doesn't put her hands on the ground. I don't consider it to be "lower class" that I make my child walk with the legs God gave her rather than carrying her everywhere- I won't be one of those mothers who is carrying their 6 y/o through the store just because the kid is lazy.

Answer 9

I'm upper class and I have a son thats 11 months and he is about to start walking. When I go grocery shopping, I sometimes let him try walking in the isle. He falls of course, and wants to crawl instead, but I do not let him crawl everywhere. I always carry antibacteria hand gel with me everywhere I go. So its not just lower class.

Answer 10

Jeez lighten up and please try to stop looking down on people just because they are "poor".

Kids are like squirrels. They're gonna go when they want to go and big slow creatures like parents have little chance of catching them when they take the mood to take flight.

I'm sure no rich person's kid ever ate a cheeto off the convenience store floor, or wandered away from a distracted "upper class" adult.

Some of the worst behaved kids I've ever known have been children of wealthy "upper class" parents...

Answer 11

hmmm...who exactly is lower class?? Just wonder qualifies you for that status...
I think this question is actually rather rude. As I read in several posts, it takes all kinda. Heck...Michael Jackson is definitely not lower class, but he (in my opinion) sucks as a parent. He held his baby out over a balcony edge?!?!?

Just becasue you don't see them wash the child's hands doesn't mean they didn't. Plus...ggrrr!! It just isn't *lower class*.