Please don’t let your children eat common allergens while playing on public playground equipment

[Anonymous]

To the nut butter mom, try chickpeas. They're awesome and we're helpful for a former student who's mom said the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing that people are here claiming that nuts are the “only food” their kids can eat. BS. Have your child eat other foods, it’s not that hard

Nobody owes you an explanation of what their kids will or won't eat. Work with the park officials to make a nut free park because this is not the way. And as you know first it will be you with the nuts, then someone else with dairy, then the next person with wheat. it will never stop. You can't control others.

I am laughing at “what your kid will eat”. Be.a.parent. You people who let your kids run your whole house are unbelievable. Feed them some other foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing that people are here claiming that nuts are the “only food” their kids can eat. BS. Have your child eat other foods, it’s not that hard

Nobody owes you an explanation of what their kids will or won't eat. Work with the park officials to make a nut free park because this is not the way. And as you know first it will be you with the nuts, then someone else with dairy, then the next person with wheat. it will never stop. You can't control others.

I am laughing at “what your kid will eat”. Be.a.parent. You people who let your kids run your whole house are unbelievable. Feed them some other foods.

Problem solved now. You told them! I'm sure another allergen will never be at the park again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing that people are here claiming that nuts are the “only food” their kids can eat. BS. Have your child eat other foods, it’s not that hard

Nobody owes you an explanation of what their kids will or won't eat. Work with the park officials to make a nut free park because this is not the way. And as you know first it will be you with the nuts, then someone else with dairy, then the next person with wheat. it will never stop. You can't control others.

I am laughing at “what your kid will eat”. Be.a.parent. You people who let your kids run your whole house are unbelievable. Feed them some other foods.

Get over yourself!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Peanut butter is a food bank staple. Check your privilege. [/quote

And they can eat it at the picnic table and then wipe their hands.

The hypocrisy of all the people calling parents of kids with food allergies entitled and nuts! All these BS answers about what your kid will or won’t eat. IRRELEVANT. Check your own privilege.

There really is a simple answer. There are lots of places your kids should NOT be eating *anything*. That includes public playground equipment. Eat at the picnic tables or on a blanket or in your car at the park. Clean up after yourself. Be courteous.

Even those of us without allergies find it disgusting when your kid is getting their food everywhere. Stop it. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Love how this thread went from “don’t eat allergens ON playground equipment” to “NEVER FEED YOUR CHILD IN PUBLIC YOU MONSTERS.”

Meanwhile, my ASD kid told me yesterday that she doesn’t like yogurt anymore. Her current list of proteins is: yogurt, milk, nuts and nut butter, beans. Yogurt and nuts are the most portable of those options. We obviously aren’t giving up on yogurt and we’re constantly trying to introduce new proteins, but she has a firm aversion to all meat (it’s a texture issue) and has not taken to hummus, lentils, or other options yet. It’s a daily focus.

So I’m going to keep bringing nut butters, nuts, and recipes with nuts as an ingredient, when I need to bring a snack with me. She eats at a table or on a bench and always washes her hands and face. Having an ASD kid is hard and I work very hard at parenting. But no, I’m not going change my already highly constrained habits on the off chance there is a kid with an allergy at the playground. I feel I’m doing the best I can. Good luck to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love how this thread went from “don’t eat allergens ON playground equipment” to “NEVER FEED YOUR CHILD IN PUBLIC YOU MONSTERS.”

Meanwhile, my ASD kid told me yesterday that she doesn’t like yogurt anymore. Her current list of proteins is: yogurt, milk, nuts and nut butter, beans. Yogurt and nuts are the most portable of those options. We obviously aren’t giving up on yogurt and we’re constantly trying to introduce new proteins, but she has a firm aversion to all meat (it’s a texture issue) and has not taken to hummus, lentils, or other options yet. It’s a daily focus.

So I’m going to keep bringing nut butters, nuts, and recipes with nuts as an ingredient, when I need to bring a snack with me. She eats at a table or on a bench and always washes her hands and face. Having an ASD kid is hard and I work very hard at parenting. But no, I’m not going change my already highly constrained habits on the off chance there is a kid with an allergy at the playground. I feel I’m doing the best I can. Good luck to you.

+1 Good for you. My ASD kid only recently started accepting PB on crackers as a snack. Protein intake is always an issue for us too, so I started hiding a lot more egg in the food, quinoa, protein enriched pasta. I don't expect anyone except other ASD parents to understand the struggle and I don't spend any time worrying about the allergy kids and their harpy moms. We figure out our shit and they figure out theirs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s amazing that people are here claiming that nuts are the “only food” their kids can eat. BS. Have your child eat other foods, it’s not that hard

Nobody owes you an explanation of what their kids will or won't eat. Work with the park officials to make a nut free park because this is not the way. And as you know first it will be you with the nuts, then someone else with dairy, then the next person with wheat. it will never stop. You can't control others.

I am laughing at “what your kid will eat”. Be.a.parent. You people who let your kids run your whole house are unbelievable. Feed them some other foods.

I find this attitude weird. Look at all the adults with restricted diets you respect — vegan, kosher, gf— but kids should just eat whatever to satisfy your need to act like you’re some kind of extraordinary parent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love how this thread went from “don’t eat allergens ON playground equipment” to “NEVER FEED YOUR CHILD IN PUBLIC YOU MONSTERS.”

Meanwhile, my ASD kid told me yesterday that she doesn’t like yogurt anymore. Her current list of proteins is: yogurt, milk, nuts and nut butter, beans. Yogurt and nuts are the most portable of those options. We obviously aren’t giving up on yogurt and we’re constantly trying to introduce new proteins, but she has a firm aversion to all meat (it’s a texture issue) and has not taken to hummus, lentils, or other options yet. It’s a daily focus.

So I’m going to keep bringing nut butters, nuts, and recipes with nuts as an ingredient, when I need to bring a snack with me. She eats at a table or on a bench and always washes her hands and face. Having an ASD kid is hard and I work very hard at parenting. But no, I’m not going change my already highly constrained habits on the off chance there is a kid with an allergy at the playground. I feel I’m doing the best I can. Good luck to you.

I have a highly nut allergic kid *and* I’m going to keep bringing her the nut foods she can eat because that’s part of avoiding further allergies. I’ll put them away in a heartbeat if you ask me, and she doesn’t eat on the playground equipment because the heimleich just isn’t that much fun, but my patience for internet harpies is nil.

If your kid is eating pistachios I’ll come ask if you can put it away and offer cheese crisps but I won’t shriek at you for having the temerity to feed your kid. Crazy allergy parents make life harder and less safe for my daughter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. I have one child with anaphylactic allergies to peanuts and pistachios, and another without. We are always mindful to eat cleanly in public spaces so as not to pose a threat to others, or my own son.

It’s the plane that’s terrifying. Even with two Epipens. People eating nuts and no way for the plan to land in time.

Anaphylactic reactions to airborne peanut dust are non-existent. These reactions are rare and mild. (Seafood and wheat can be a different story.)

Hopefully this will at least help you feel less stressed on the plane.

Please post your verifiable M.D. credentials. Thanks in advance.

Ha! I’m not posting anything of the sort but you can verify this on Google. (I am married to an allergist but I know that’s not enough for DCUM.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. I have one child with anaphylactic allergies to peanuts and pistachios, and another without. We are always mindful to eat cleanly in public spaces so as not to pose a threat to others, or my own son.

It’s the plane that’s terrifying. Even with two Epipens. People eating nuts and no way for the plan to land in time.

Anaphylactic reactions to airborne peanut dust are non-existent. These reactions are rare and mild. (Seafood and wheat can be a different story.)

Hopefully this will at least help you feel less stressed on the plane.

Please post your verifiable M.D. credentials. Thanks in advance.

Ha! I’m not posting anything of the sort but you can verify this on Google. (I am married to an allergist but I know that’s not enough for DCUM.)

Our highly respected pedi allergist says the same. No chance of anaphylactic reaction to someone eating nuts in the same closed space. And our kid is anaphylactic to quite a number of nuts including peanut. Fish can be aerosolized when cooked - there was a relatively recent death from that sadly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love how this thread went from “don’t eat allergens ON playground equipment” to “NEVER FEED YOUR CHILD IN PUBLIC YOU MONSTERS.”

Meanwhile, my ASD kid told me yesterday that she doesn’t like yogurt anymore. Her current list of proteins is: yogurt, milk, nuts and nut butter, beans. Yogurt and nuts are the most portable of those options. We obviously aren’t giving up on yogurt and we’re constantly trying to introduce new proteins, but she has a firm aversion to all meat (it’s a texture issue) and has not taken to hummus, lentils, or other options yet. It’s a daily focus.

So I’m going to keep bringing nut butters, nuts, and recipes with nuts as an ingredient, when I need to bring a snack with me. She eats at a table or on a bench and always washes her hands and face. Having an ASD kid is hard and I work very hard at parenting. But no, I’m not going change my already highly constrained habits on the off chance there is a kid with an allergy at the playground. I feel I’m doing the best I can. Good luck to you.

Blow me

[Anonymous]

I weep for the future of the human genome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here, and I have not read much of the thread. But as the parent of a kid in kindergarten, this is something I've thought a lot about.

I understand OP's request and why she would make it. If my child had a serious allergy, I'd of course worry about this too, and do whatever I could to protect my kid. That's what good parents do. I get it, I really do.

But here is the problem. I have a kid with ARFID who relies on nut butters and nuts to get enough protein. I expend a ton of energy worrying about my kid's diet. And what you are asking me to do is worry that some of the very few foods my kids will eat might leave a residue on her fingers that could be transferred to a piece of playground equipment and then harm your child.

I'm sorry, that's too much. It's too much! I have to worry about my own kid. Is the risk from a peanut residue actually that dangerous to your kid? If so, I think that like me, you need to take the responsibility for your child's unique situation on yourself -- wipe down equipment if you are concerned, have your kid wear gloves, even be ready to let other families at the playground know the situation so that they can make reasonable choices in the moment.

But to ask me to simply refrain from allowing my kid to eat one of a very small number of foods she will eat at the playground, especially when these foods are already not allowed at her school, is too much. I can't. I'd like to help you, but I can't. Just like you can't help me.

Good luck to you.

Why in God's name do all you people need to eat at the playground? Eat at your stupid nut butters at your *house*. Or at a restaurant. Or just keep it at the picnic table. This is not hard. NO ONE needs to eat on playground equipment. NO ONE. Not even your kid who only eats nut butters. NO ONE.

The real problem here is not that OP's kid has allergies or that your kid needs to eat nuts. It's that disgusting Americans feel they should be able to eat anytime anywhere and not clean up properly after themselves.

You all eating letting your little kids walk around with food all the time and everywhere are disgusting. YOUR kids are the ones learning to be entitled. Eat at home and then go. Or go and then come home and have your lunch. Are you traveling three hours to this playgrounds? WTAF????

I can’t believe it took 23 pages to get to this answer. Eating is for home or the picnic table. No one wants your toddler’s grubby hands smearing crumbs and cheese and yogurt and peanut butter and whatever else in God’s name they don’t need to be eating on playground equipment. No one needs granola bar wrappers and empty goldfish bags littered about attracting rodents. My kids have always known that snacks/meals are eaten sitting at the table (save for the occasional pizza and a movie night when we let them eat in the basement). I’ve seen the parents who bring backpacks full of snacks galore that they dole out as their kid wanders around shoving food in their mouth and it’s so gross. Can your kid not function without food on their mouth?

And yes I have an ADHD/ASD kid who struggles with textures and has preferred foods. He still has to eat them at a table like a functional human being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP here, and I have not read much of the thread. But as the parent of a kid in kindergarten, this is something I've thought a lot about.

I understand OP's request and why she would make it. If my child had a serious allergy, I'd of course worry about this too, and do whatever I could to protect my kid. That's what good parents do. I get it, I really do.

But here is the problem. I have a kid with ARFID who relies on nut butters and nuts to get enough protein. I expend a ton of energy worrying about my kid's diet. And what you are asking me to do is worry that some of the very few foods my kids will eat might leave a residue on her fingers that could be transferred to a piece of playground equipment and then harm your child.

I'm sorry, that's too much. It's too much! I have to worry about my own kid. Is the risk from a peanut residue actually that dangerous to your kid? If so, I think that like me, you need to take the responsibility for your child's unique situation on yourself -- wipe down equipment if you are concerned, have your kid wear gloves, even be ready to let other families at the playground know the situation so that they can make reasonable choices in the moment.

But to ask me to simply refrain from allowing my kid to eat one of a very small number of foods she will eat at the playground, especially when these foods are already not allowed at her school, is too much. I can't. I'd like to help you, but I can't. Just like you can't help me.

Good luck to you.

Why in God's name do all you people need to eat at the playground? Eat at your stupid nut butters at your *house*. Or at a restaurant. Or just keep it at the picnic table. This is not hard. NO ONE needs to eat on playground equipment. NO ONE. Not even your kid who only eats nut butters. NO ONE.

The real problem here is not that OP's kid has allergies or that your kid needs to eat nuts. It's that disgusting Americans feel they should be able to eat anytime anywhere and not clean up properly after themselves.

You all eating letting your little kids walk around with food all the time and everywhere are disgusting. YOUR kids are the ones learning to be entitled. Eat at home and then go. Or go and then come home and have your lunch. Are you traveling three hours to this playgrounds? WTAF????

I can’t believe it took 23 pages to get to this answer. Eating is for home or the picnic table. No one wants your toddler’s grubby hands smearing crumbs and cheese and yogurt and peanut butter and whatever else in God’s name they don’t need to be eating on playground equipment. No one needs granola bar wrappers and empty goldfish bags littered about attracting rodents. My kids have always known that snacks/meals are eaten sitting at the table (save for the occasional pizza and a movie night when we let them eat in the basement). I’ve seen the parents who bring backpacks full of snacks galore that they dole out as their kid wanders around shoving food in their mouth and it’s so gross. Can your kid not function without food on their mouth?

And yes I have an ADHD/ASD kid who struggles with textures and has preferred foods. He still has to eat them at a table like a functional human being.

Oh, my. I do hope you come visit my playground soon.