Posted on 04/12/2018 9:28:03 AM PDT by bgill
A mother on a New York parenting blog wrote Monday that while shopping at the retailer, she gave her four-year-old daughter a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and "a woman stopped me to lecture me about peanut allergies." The child's mother then asked other moms on UrbanBaby if it was unacceptable to eat peanut butter in public. The anti-peanut butter backlash was swift and brutal. Most responses attacked the mother for potentially endangering children with peanut allergies. Some criticized her for feeding her daughter in a shopping cart, which they considered disgusting. "That's really inconsiderate," one person wrote. "So many kids have life threatening allergies to peanut butter. Eating it in a shopping cart GUARANTEES it will be smeared on the handle, etc. It's really awful you would do this. Sorry, but imagine if it were your child with the allergy."
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Same parents have their daughters on BCP and receiving HPV vaccine.
There were no “peanut allergies” forty years ago.
They are right. I don’t want to be cleaning grocery store carts before I use them.
The whole peanut allergy thing must be a reaction in children to one of the 70 or so vaccines they get. Never was a problem in my childhood, or my children’s childhood.
Something changed.
I still don’t take it seriously.
I eat peanut butter wherever I want to. Anyone who wants to give me any grief over it does so at their own peril.
Anyone bothering my kids about it should make their funeral plans in advance.
"...peanut butter & jelly sandwich..."
This mother & the PBJ sandwich have been deemed “unsafe for the community”.
My wife would say something along the line of MYOB comes to mind...
I as a husband and father would take a different approach, much different...
Even more disgusting--the scolding nanny-boo just told the world that she doesn't use common hygiene to wipe a shopping cart before placing her own child in it. tsk tsk.
As the article states, exposure to peanuts as an infant prevents the allergy. Treatment for allergy is to gradually introduce peanuts. A little bit of peanut butter on a shopping cart could potentially prevent the allergy from developing.
It’s a mystery why women have been subjugated for much of history.
Lots of FAIL going on here. Including the idiot mother.
“The child’s mother then asked other moms on UrbanBaby if it was unacceptable to eat peanut butter in public.”
WHY? Why go to the internet to validate your natural instinct that its OK to give your kid a PB&J?
Cue the pro-mandatory vax cadre in this forum in 3...2...1
You don’t use those wipes at the door?...................
In honor of this mom, next Saturday I will travel to downtown Chicago and eat a jar of peanut butter on Michigan avenue in public, on the street, in front of Oprah’s old condo.
I can’t recall ONE kid having peanut allergies when my siblings and I were in school.
I knew of several kids, with peanut allergies, when my kids were in grade school.
What caused the prevalent onset of peanut allergies?
Heh, hey.... concealed carry has a purpose :-)
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