[DBrow]

And what about beyond school? Ban peanut in college, in the dorms and classrooms?

And the workplace, all of the workplaces?

And now that you are messing with private entities and not public, why allow restaurants to serve peanut?

My feeling on this is that you teach the child to cope with living in a risky world, and make some reasonable accommodations like a peanut-free zone (which you really can't trust). At some point the kid is going to have to learn to cope with the real world where lethal poison is sold in vending machines all over. Why not now?

If one of you were to invite me over for dinner, I'd ask that you don't serve me peanuts, or put out a bowl of peanuts in the room. A personal request for an accommodation.

[Sonny M]

My feeling on this is that you teach the child to cope with living in a risky world, and make some reasonable accommodations like a peanut-free zone (which you really can't trust). At some point the kid is going to have to learn to cope with the real world where lethal poison is sold in vending machines all over. Why not now?

Personally, I'd just ban in grade school, by the time these kids get to High School they do know how to use a needle and stick themselves if they are going to die.

I'm not into the whole slippery slope thing where banning peanuts in a school means a nazi state of the union tomorrow.

A school banning one veggie isn't a sign of totalitarianism.

Its a mild safety precaution.

By the time they are older, they have more sense to know that peanuts can kill them, but when they are in like the 2nd grade (my friends sons age), they still have some problems with the concept.

[taildragger]

Brow,

Your desire to promote raising kids aware and always asking doesn't always work, and we are vigilant parents as well.

Our daughter has a class 2 allergy to nuts. Nibbled on a cookie the other day that was supposed to be safe and her throat started to tickle.

It can sneak up on you, especially if you go out to dinner. I won't even go there, and we are on top of this and still you get caught off-guard.

I got a Christmas gift early the year, a bag to carry all the tackle I need on a daily basis, my pockets are not big enough, especially with the kids stuff including the Epipen and the Benadyrl Tablets.