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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Can you imagine the outrage over a chicken nugget!
LOL, it goes well in the car with the cell phone, while text messaging/s
....Almost all women know taking a toddler to the grocery store is asking for trouble, because they want to take things off the shelves and put them in cart! Keeping a child in cart is safest way to protect that from happening. Some children are climbers, and will get out, when your back is turned.
Maybe, a peanut butter sandwich was wrong choice, however it would not be misunderstood that she opened a bag from the store without paying. My thoughts would be a small bag of snacks that she could get out of a zip lock bag...depending on child’s age.
People should learn to mind their own business, as long as child abuse or something bad (like Kidnapping) isn’t happening. Liberals have a problem with butting out!
Kids’ peanut butter smears on shopping cart handles are the least significant reason for cleaning them before use.
(And did you ever stop and think where that dollar bill in your hand has been before?)
Perhaps we have diluted the chlorine in the gene pool a little too much. This is why there are warning stickers on toasters to not use them in the bathtub.
Being a dog person, this reminds me of one of the many good reasons for having one or more large dogs if one has kids. Dogs, being dogs, are inherently septic creatures. Kids who play with them pick up all sorts of bugs that give the kids mostly minuscule infections that the kids' immune systems easily overcome. That gives the dog kids stronger immune systems than the non-dog kids have and makes the dog kids healthier. Included also is that the dog kids are happier because they have wonderful, big, four footed friends.
If you're not doing that already, the remote possibility of one more peanut butter sandwich is not going to make a f difference.
In other words, if you or your dependent child has this allergy, it's your cross to bear any way, so carry some wipes and take care of your personal responsibility to care for yourself.
It's a popular thing now, but it's not a freedom-supporting thing for the very small minority to drain the life out of the vast majority over their personal woes—everybody's got some—unless it is a serious medical emergency.
All three of my boys went to the same schools growing up. Absolutely no mention of peanut allergies among any of the students.
But still, the school district eliminated all peanut products on school grounds due to the “potential” of some student having an allergic reaction.
If you took into consideration every possible adverse reaction to every type of foodstuff, schools would ban all food on school grounds forever.
The clean freaks of the 80’s-90’s wrecked and stunted their kids’ immune systems.
Immunization is good for the really nasty diseases and viruses out there, but you need exposure to the things you come in contact with daily to build immunity to well, rhe things that you come in contact with daily.
I have eaten a lot of peanut butter sandwiches in my life, but never with jelly. That combination still strikes me as ungodly—kind of like turkey gravy over chocolate cake.
And they don’t let babies eat a little dirt. There have been studies that prove that dirt has many beneficial bacteria in it. Everything they put in their mouths must be 100% sterile.
I would tell the busy bodies to STFU. If someone told me about peanut allergies, i would tell them, Thank you for your concern, but unless you are paging my kids health care, please Mind you own F business.
“You don’t use those wipes at the door?.................”
Yes, but I don’t want to spend ten minutes being a kid’s car wash service...
Me too.
I don’t think stores ever clean their carts.
LOL, I always told my kids that when I was their age all we ate was dirt.
And, goofy docs/school admin, etc?
Reminds me of the Ritalin wave.
I didn’t know one kid, in grade school, who took Ritalin. Fast forward to my own kid’s school days....looooong lines, in the nurses office. Unreal.
I had to take cough med up to the school one day, when oldest was in grade school. I saw the loooong line of kids and said, ‘wow, lots of colds going around?’ She said, “No, Ritalin doses.”
Yikes.
The monster would be the parent who plopped her child with severe allergies into a random grocery cart.
OK, really fix them, give the little kid a HAM and Swiss Cheese Sandwich and a small caron of chocolate Milk to Drink..
I NEVER put anything in the child (diaper!) seats on shopping carts
You know, I would look to see if someone literally left $hite in the cart, or on a toilet seat, or on a door knob. But barring that, I have managed through a long life without the paranoid skittishness of having to wipe down with hand disinfectant after touching everything, or feeling the need to "fist bump" because others are afraid of a hand shake. Eating a little dirt never hurt anyone, and probably makes your immune system stronger. Its no wonder we have so many issues with weak immune systems today. Everyone wants to live in a gem free world.
I remember an episode of Designing Women, where Julia called someone at a newspaper, who said people in south eat dirt, to tell them they did not eat dirt! LOL. I grew up in south, and although I do not remember eating dirt, my husband said he did! How funny! I always went barefoot in summer, so that explained the worm medicine I had to take.
Dirt has been proven to help with certain bacteria. So children making mud pies and sampling them is quite okay, as long as it isn’t a whole lot!
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