Adventures Parenting Boys

Okay. Me, my brother, and my 2 sons are sitting around chatting the other night. My brother is telling the story of him and my youngest son out hunting and my son was climbing a tree and stuck his hand in raccoon poop. Of course I say "YUCK!!!". My son tells me he wiped it off (knowing there is no water or soap out at the property I know he did not sanitize hands). Then all 3 boys (my brother included) proceed to tell how they throw cow poop at each other. Only the hard ones no soft (like that makes it better). Of course as a girl I am getting totally grossed out. But then they go on to tell that their uncle picks up animal poop and looks at it. OKAY what is that about. He and my father try to explain that you have to do that so you know what kind of animal it is, and what it has been eating. In my mind I'm thinking "SO" there is never a good reason to pick up poop of any kind. Now keep in mind that I'm sure these same guys that will pick up, inspect, and play with all different animal poop will NOT under any circumstances change a dirty diaper. As the conversation ends I chuckle to myself because I'm thinking that if this was a group of girls sitting around talking we would not be able to have this conversation about poop because girls, when we see poop we do not feel the need to inspect it, and there is no way we are touching it. All of this lets me know I still don't make my boys wash their hands enough.