So two years ago, my son's preschool banned peanut butter. Then ALL nuts. This was all due to one child at the center and naturally that child was in my son's class. (Note: Hubby and I refer to this child as 'Peanut Butter' regularly. Between us, not in public, we're not that rude.) The school even went so far as to send a letter asking us not to feed our children peanut butter for breakfast before school, IN OUR OWN HOME. Apparently, this child's allergy was so severe he could die if you even looked at him after having thought about having a peanut butter sammich.
Okay, so the no PB&J thing for lunch was hard since it was one of three decently healthy things my kid even wanted to eat for lunch. But we made due. Cream cheese and jelly. Sunflower nut butter and jelly. Jelly and jelly. Confession? He ate peanut butter for breakfast in the privacy of my own home and was sent to class regularly. I'm thinking maybe if the kid's allergy was severe enough for me to have to monitor what I do with my child in the privacy of my own home, he should stay in the privacy of his own home? Or maybe they could start paying my mortgage too. Just a thought.
So we're two years deep into this nut ban thing which I understand is commonplace in a lot of schools now. Fine, whatever.
We recently had a preschool party for Christmas, hosted by a class parent in her home. Apparently, there were some peanut M&M's out in a candy dish. (Kudos to her for living on the edge like that.) Well, 'Peanut Butter' totally sniffed these bad boys out and ate one:
Peanut Butter Mom: He just ate some peanut M&M's. I wonder what is going to happen.
*Peanut Butter Kid is running circles around the house with all the other kids, completely fine with no reaction*
Peanut Butter Dad: I don't think he's really THAT allergic to nuts.
*Obviously, because Peanut Butter Kid isn't swelling up or imploding and it's been 100 hours since he swallowed the friggin' M&M's*
Soooooooooooooo, lemme get this straight: I have to live my life (even in my own home) PEANUT FREE because your kid might die if he so much as breathes it, but you can't be bothered to watch him at a party to make sure that his greedy little, crumb-snatching ass doesn't eat some peanut M&M's? What. the. hell?
I honor of this, I've made peanut butter cookies for the class party tomorrow and stuffed a bunch of Reese's into the goody bags.
(Note to those with nut allergies or those that have kids with nut allergies: this post was in no way meant to get your panties in a bunch.)
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idiots like these parents and their unnecessary food bans make life incredibly difficult for those of us dealing with REAL lifethreating allergies.
Yup. My 4 yr old has an epipen b/c of her tested and sadly observed reaction to peanuts, but idiots who self diagnose drive me crazy. By the way, my kid already knows better than to eat anything at a party without asking me. Because it is my reponsibility. That being said, your own attitude isn't the most considerate for someone who wants perfume banned. Sadly, if your own child had a reaction, your view would be different. But I hope you NEVER have to experience it. I miss peanut butter a lot!
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Whoa. Yeah it is this kind of thing that makes people NOT want to take anyone seriously - and it really is up to the parents to see that their kids are safe... and ask that people cooperate. Its really amazing that the kid isnt allergic to the mom, nutty as she is.
Im sorry, that was bad. But really, just saying
I was all ready to get my panties in a bunch until I got to the kicker and now I'm thinking those parents and that kid should be pelted with big bags of peanuts for their stupidity! What idiots...
Funny, everyone morning K has to have peanut butter on an english muffin and all hell breaks loose if we're out of a)English Muffin's or b)heaven forbid PB itself. Her school is a nut free (food that his) zone but whatever they provide the food so I don't care but if they could see her hands after she eats breakfast every morning I've always thought I wonder when it will come down to don't eat it for breakfast. That's crazy to hear it has come down to that at your school. I'm not even going to go there about the mother but can she be banned from the school?
I wonder if those parents would be allergic to your fist punching their faces?
I hope you have a very Merry Christmas filled with nut products and no nutty people!
Its really amazing that the kid isnt allergic to the mom, nutty as she is.
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I think this whole nut allergy issue has become a more controversial subject than religion or politics. I don't doubt that it is a serious thing for those who have been properly diagnosed. But I'm a little tired of reading ingredients on EVERYTHING to scope out the possibility that my child might bring something to school or to the gym that has somehow even been in the same building as any kind of a nut, for fear that it MIGHT come in contact with one of these identity-protected nut ban enthusiasts. Why do those of us who aren't allergic have to be made to feel like dirty criminals?
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