UGH! 16-month-old drinks water from sandbox!

Well, even the cleanest and well-maintained sand box gives me the absolute heebie jeebies...in fact I steer my 18 month old away from the sand boxes at playgrounds and such : just because I think they potentially hold more bacteria than I can handle. And I'm not a germaphobe by any means.

I would also reiterate - "The water is for playing/splashing/stirring, NOT for the mouth. Yuck!" And I would probably remove my ds from the sand box if he continued to drink it. Gak. I have a hard time with the bathwater thing, too, but I can handle that. At least the bath gets scrubbed clean, and the water is only a cesspool of ds's grubby dirt and pee . Sandboxes are potential flea sites, staph collectors, and cat potties. Blech.

I'd tell them "eewwy, thats yucky, we don't drink that water". My DS actually knows what "eeewwy!!" means at this point, and laughs about it, but he doesn't drink/eat stuff that I say is eeeeewwwy!! anymore

My son used to drink rain puddles at that age. I just let him be.

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I notice that my dd thinks it's funny when I say "no." And she'll do it again to get my reaction. She's at the age where if we're going for a walk, and I say, "we're going this way" she'll turn around and run in the opposite direction. And when I catch her, she giggles like crazy.