>>Or, you can continue to keep your child home and continue to blame the "unfair" folks who run the schools who are "distriminating" against your child who is on the self-imposed limited diet. It's your choice, and you have made it. I'm glad you are happy with it, but it may limit your child's experiences in the future.<<
Oh my sure there is many a homeschooling mother on this board who will disagree with "limiting a child's experiences in the future".
I never used your words in quotations above, you did. Seems like a little projection going on there. And my daughter is not on a "self-imposed" limited diet. That is a presumption you are making again.
I never said that there were unfair folks, I stated that sending a child to school who is in as much danger as you portray is reckless. Many of the school districts today go to the extreme and many a parent plays on it. We must restrict the many instead of restricting the child in danger.
I have friends with children who have dietary restrictions. They feed their children their own food and do not inflict their problems on others. I'm sorry that your Granddaughter ended up in a hospital, but that is the boundries one must take with a sick child. Nothing in the mouth execpt what a parent provides.
The danger from those nuts would still exist in a school situation. No visable nuts right. What parent would know that they were there and what six year old might not offer a goodie to her friend.
Sending that child to a school is simply putting her in harms way.
Both of my daughters are allergic to mosquito bites and will die from bee stings. Do I send them out into a field unprotected without an Epi-kit close by? My daughters have the same risk of death, but do I put them into the situation? I don't think so. And neither do I tell the school that no child may go on a field trip to a local pond to catch tadpoles because mine can't go. We ran into that when she was in school and she did not go.
Some degree of reason is needed here.
Parent-imposed restricted diet? Is that more accurate?
Yes, I had a child allergic to bee stings too. However, she went to school, camp, etc. She's now a mom with 2 of her own and is an avid gardener, and they do everything anybody else does. She's also allergic to pine tree pollen. Do you think I could protect her from that? No, it interferes with her beautiful singing voice during pollen season, but she still has ample opportunities to use her God-given talent at church and in her studio.
Unfortunately, you cannot see yourself and your own unreasonable demands on the rest of the world. Your child is not in danger of dying because of peanut butter in the environment, but all children who have that problem must stay cloistered so that your kid can eat their peanut butter in public without regard for the health of others because YOU don't want your children to consume any other kind of protein. What's more, I really don't think that it matters to you what the school says about PB sandwiches. You would be homeschooling anyway. I'm sure that PB not the primary reason you keep your children home. Of course, according to you, the whole PB allergy is a scam perpetrated by the trial lawyers!
The schools and churches and airlines have made reasonable accomocdations for the handicapped -- just like handicapped parking places -- until the kids are old enough to take care of themselves. Some folks, like my son in law's visiting editor, never seem to reach the level of caring for themselves, however. And the enclosed environment on a plane (with the recirculated air) makes the peanut essences dangerous to anyone aboard who suffers from this allergy. The story about my granddaughter was simply to illustrate that there is a real danger, a fact which you want to deny.
I can assure you that her parents are VERY careful and always bring their own food, but accidents happen. It is just incumbant on me to remove nuts from my home when she is here. I am happy to do that and am not complaining, although you might think that it is a great inconvenience. The offending brownie was from a trusted friend from their church as part of a meal to help out my son's family in a crisis when my daughter in law was incapacitated from a back injury. It was offered in good faith with no intent to harm anybody.
I am so happy that you are able to home school your kids, and I hope they grow up strong and healthy and even learn to be considerate of other people along the way. Jesus taught that the Golden Rule was above all other laws and it is good to pass that concept on to our children. i.e., *I won't put your child's life in danger because I wouldn't like it if you put my child's life in danger*
Enjoy your kids while they are young.