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Playground etiquette: running around with pb&j sandwich
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Anonymous
Honey, there is dog doo where you can't even see. |
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If you or your child have a peanut allergy, you should operate on the assumption that there are trace amounts of pb anywhere that children have been. Carry wipes with you, practice good hygiene, teach your children that all surfaces could potentially have trace amts of allergens and therefore never put your hands in your mouth before washing them.
PB could be on the handle of shopping cart at Target, on the laminated pamphlet on the airplane, on a door handle at the dentists office, and certainly could be on a surface at a playground. Just play it safe wherever you are. |
Anonymous
crow and squirrel crew on standby |
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So to summarize:
OP - Can parents please just be slightly thoughtful about peanut butter? Parents- No. go eff yourself. |
Anonymous
Not really. I have a particular allergy that can cause me to asphyxiate and it's uncommon enough that nobody thinks to try to remove it from the environment. I understand that I just need to be cautious about where I go and what I touch and what I eat, and also keep something on me for emergencies. I know people in their 80s who have had severe food allergies their whole lives. If they made it that far, there's hope for the rest of us. |
Anonymous
| Since this disgusting behavior is so common, I wonder how often kids have deadly anaphylactic reactions at parks? I haven’t heard of any. |
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It’s just common courtesy not to let a child wander around a public place holding food. Food should be consumed while sitting.
The fact that this request has caused so much consternation proves how many parents are not modeling this. |
Anonymous
+1. This isn’t even about the allergies for me. Why is your kid running around with a sandwich? |
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I have a ton of food allergies. So do my kids. You teach your children that it's their job to avoid their allergies not other kids. You can't tell someone else they cant consume something because you are allergic.
The only people concerned about this are people who don't have allergies or people with anxiety.. While no one allerfies or not wants to play o dirty equipment that's another thing. |
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This feels so virtue-signally.
A few years ago, someone in our neighborhood went on a rampage about bird seed with peanuts in it. They were basically trying to police all the area about using seed with peanuts, and the communication and interactions got quite belligerent. Everyone assumed it was the parent of two little ones on the street. Turns out it was not that family, but rather their neighbor, who had been told not to bake peanut laden treats and drop them off. The family actually was one that was using seed with peanuts, but they were teaching their allergic children and showing them how to take precautions to avoid them in the yard. Things like the seed was stored outside in a separate area, everyone wore gloves to handle, etc. Point was, this woman was so irritated about not being able to make the treats she wanted to, that she then became some of of police service. While it was nice that she was looking out for the family, they had it under control, as I think most allergy families do. I don’t think k schools are but free so much out of safety as they are out of potential liability. |
Anonymous
Look, I've never let my kid run around with a sandwich (and generally don't pack peanut butter anyway) but this is crazy. There are almost no places where you can take children outside your home and just let them run around. Playgrounds are kind of it. We have such low tolerance for kids in public at this point. You really going to go after parents (and other care givers) who don't force their kids to sit down and have "proper table manners" on a playground? It's been raining for a week and if I had kids under 5 right now, I'd be going to the playground the sight of the sun and just be like "here's some popcorn and cheese sticks-- don't kill each other but otherwise I don't care what you do." |
Anonymous
Yes to all this. Also please start using exposure therapy (with an allergist) to address peanut allergies. We proliferated this allergy specifically by trying to keep nuts away from all kids. Rather than trying to police the entire world if peanuts, just follow medical science and you can liberate yourself, your kid, and everyone else from this obsession with peanuts. |