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Since I posted in the GMG thread about coddling children I should post in here about the laundry detergent ad which extols the virtues of kids getting dirty, which I love. All good childhoods should involve lots of germs, grime, mud, grass stains, and blood stains. Also tree-climbing, hurtling down hills on skateboards, jumping into rivers from ropes tied to swings, bicycles, and jumping off things that are 'too high' for you to safely jump off. The summer is the best time for all of these, so I just took a warm fuzzy, moment to remember summers of ruining togs my lying on hot concrete after getting out of the water, falling off my bike, swinging off trees into rivers, and scraping my legs on trees. I loved being a kid, and I got REALLY dirty in the process.