re: Is PB&J not allowed in school anymore?

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You have to avoid anything that can harm them but you get into a habit of asking what meals are made of and such, it gets easier.

We give the schools their epipens as required, but that shouldn't give anyone else free reign to do whatever they please around them when it comes to their allergies.

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Do you not also see the problem though that one kid's allergy is requiring all families to have to adhere to the dietary restrictions of the one child? This thread brought up peanut butter, but if they are actually caring about the allergy and it is so bad that they can't do any other precautionary measures besides banning the products entirely, they would have to be banning all products that contain potentially reactive substances. Otherwise, as the others in this thread have pointed out, their position is just bullshite pandering to avoid a lawsuit.

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Do you not also see the problem though that one kid's allergy is requiring all families to have to adhere to the dietary restrictions of the one child

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You're viewing it as a dietary restriction when it can literally kill someone. It's not just dietary. It's life and death.

Mean while us allergy parents over here are cooking every single damn meal from scratch because that’s the only way to ultimately safely feed your child.




If I could give my kids a damn PBJ just once or twice per week my life would become so much easier.

As all the MuH pEaNuTs zealots in this thread wish. We are keeping our allergy child at home. We are home schooling him.

But damn I hate it for the parents who don’t make enough to keep Mom at home and has to send their 6 year old to a dysfunctional school system and worry about lunch time killing their child.


That is very easy to brush off as extreme until you are the one with the margin of error at lunch time killing your child.


If you have small children. Starting looking for crumbs of food everywhere you go now. You’ll be astonished how much opportunity for death there really is out there for parents like us. Especially with diary. Peanut allergies are at least well known.


Most people think a diary allergy is lactose intolerance and my 3 year old just gets the shits.

Nope. It’s death. Cheese, ice cream, all kinds of crackers, sauces, breads etc. it’s like a minefield trying to navigate.

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You're viewing it as a dietary restriction when it can literally kill someone. It's not just dietary. It's life and death.

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Yea, no, i'm not. I'm viewing it as the reality it is. You're viewing it as an emotional parent.

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Plenty of picky stretches. Has nothing to do with the conversation, but twist away bud

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So when he has a picky stretch and only wants "xyz" and can't go a day without it, wouldn't you be a shitty parent? Or are you just special? Don't really see how I'm "twisting" your post that explicitly says that,

Solid post. Not sure why so many feel the need to turn everything into a political attack. Maybe that is all some have motivation for in this life, so everything just be forced into that funnel.

One would think everyone could rally behind keeping our kids alive, right? Right?

Is it really that big of an inconvenience to not send your kids to school with peanut butter to help keep someone else’s kid from dying?

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If my kid wants something but it can easily kill another child due to negligence then my kid will not have that thing. That's the reality.

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Thanks for proving my point.

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Is PB&J not allowed in school anymore?

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he had a classmate with a peanut allergy so had to change things up.

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Frick that. Teach the kid to ask before he orders or eats anything, and make sure he has an epi-pen on him.

Teaching kids that we have to accommodate for every fricking minority is disastrous.

And before I get called a ahole, I have a nephew with this allergy and that's the way it was handled and he survives just fine. Let the kids get use to being around it instead of pampering the weaknesses in our society.

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Frick that. Teach the kid to ask before he orders or eats anything, and make sure he has an epi-pen on him.

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Yea, I'll get right to work on teaching 2 and 3 years old s what an epi pen is

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Haven't gotten to that point.

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Wow, there's a sucking surprise.

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And guess what? My kid eats what I put in front of them a vast majority of the time.

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Because you put what he likes to eat in front of him