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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid with allergies and I can’t imagine this happening with an 11 year old.

Granted my kid is 5 but he’s had allergies since was an infant, but even he doesn’t get upset when he can’t eat something. Granted, at his age I always remind the parents every time and he knows to announce that he has allergies before he accepts any food from anyone. I just can’t imagine an 11 year not being able to handle this. [/quote]

Do you have any 11 year olds?  This is a little bit like boasting that your 3 year old loves to sweep so you're sure her room will be perfectly clean when she's a teenager.

Keeping a 5 year old with food allergies safe is far easier than keeping an 11 year old.  5 year olds usually go places with their parents, so strategies like "ask your parent before you accept food from anyone" work well.  They have one teacher in Kindergarten, as opposed to one for each subject, plus coaches and extracurricular leaders.  5 year olds are also at an age where compliance is at it's peak, unlike 11 when kids are starting to lose their minds due to upcoming puberty and are impulsive, easily embarrassed, and starving all the time.

The risk in the situation was low, but if OP truly forgot, then she just as easily could have forgotten in another situation, and ended up with hidden nuts.  It's not hard to believe that the kid who was feeling safe and confident, realized this and ended up feeling scared, and that fear is what mom reported as upset.  We had an incident in our family where an adult, who absolutely should have known better, gave a wrapped but not labeled candy with nuts to a nut allergic 12 year old.  The child was upset, not because she cared about the candy but because she realized it was a close thing. Your 5 year old isn't developmentally able to put together what might have happened so they wouldn't have reacted the same way.[/quote]

I don't have an allergy kid and even I know this isn't true. A preschool classmate of one of my kids was given a donut that touched nuts or had a trace or whatever and had a reaction at school. Lots of kids under 5 are in schools, daycares, or other care situations and not with their parents 24/7. [/quote]

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