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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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?[/quote]

Yeah but those adults aren’t only eating five foods. If your child will only eat nuts, maybe they don’t want to live? Because they COULD eat something else, unlike the kids who are physically harmed by nuts. [/quote]

Your attitude makes me want to bring all the nuts and nut products to the park. You're not helping your cause. [/quote]

LOL I feel the same way sometimes when I see all the over-the-top hatred and arrogance coming from these food allergy harpies. But they are not representative of food allergy parents by a long shot. They are just a tiny insane vocal minority who seek to control everyone. Most food allergy parents have a firm grip on reality and know that they are responsible for teaching their kids how to avoid their allergens. [/quote]

Yep.  Having a kid with a life-threatening allergy is scary and takes vigilance and a lot of education (parents educating their OWN children so that they will not consume the allergens when out of parental control).  I think the majority of parents whose kids have food allergies are reasonable, rational, normal people.  The tiny percentage who make their kids' allergies their entire identity and take every opportunity to go off on people do a massive disservice to every kid with a food allergy out there.[/quote]

And the OP is not one of those people.  She's asking not to eat on the playground equipment.  Not don't ever eat nuts ever anywhere.

And many of us have agreed that eating on playground equipment is gross regardless.  [/quote]

I think it's debatable that she's not one of those people.  You can't control the behavior of other people at a public playground (unless they are doing something blanantly illegal).  You can control what you teach your own kid with allergies about how to interact at a playground (or find a safer alternative for them if the local playground is full of peanut butter-handed kids).   It's also gross to change a diaper on a eating surface like a picnic table but I see that all the time too.  [/quote]

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