all im going to say is, WE had several children living in our community. One of them, Ula who lived with us when she was 6-12 years old, was brought up basically in the jungle out here, with very few restrictions!
Today, Ula can climb huge tall trees barefoot without any issue, you can barely see her up there. In fact their whole family are quite happy to walk around barefoot on muddy paths with leeches and snakes! We are all FINE!
I'll leave you with with an image that I think says it all! (she was muddy because we were building an earthship hut and she was learning how to do some cob work.
Ha, i find my daughter everywhere lately :-)
Wow! Thats amazing... oh my leeches and snakes... We have them here, but in limited numbers or seldom seen...