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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my kids were playground age I never let them have nut butters on a playground. It just seems a common courtesy. They can have it at home plenty; they don't "need" it for a snack outside. I'm sorry your kid has such severe allergies, it must be terrifying :([/quote]

Why stop at ON the playground? If the nut allergy is so deadly that whatever is eaten at home can find it's way to the park, then OP really needs a complete ban on these foods. Because the magical thinking that the park equipment is clean as long as nobody is currently eating peanut products while ON the equipment is bizarre and nonsensical and sounds dangerous to kids like OPs child. Why risk the park at all?
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This is so moronic. I don't get why you PPs are so triggered. Someone's kid could die. She's asking for courtesy and awareness. You lose your mind bc someone asked you to be considerate. You create an outlandish hypothetical about banning peanuts. Other PPs bemoan the loss of FREEDOM. It's a MF nut. It's not the end all be all. No one is asking for a ban, just awareness of the other kids who could die from it.

Though given how hard it was to get folks to mask during COVID when millions died, I understand that asking for courtesy for children with allergies is next to impossible

[b]I'm just in constant awe and what total self absorbed jerks Americans are. We're really freaking terrible to each other.[/b] [/quote]

Ok but- there is a big difference between "do you mind not giving them that nut snack on the playground/ not giving them milk on the playground because my child is allergic" and "no one should ever eat foods in public because someone could be allergic".  OP isn't saying she has asked people to put snacks away and they've refused.  She is saying that they should pre emptively put all snacks away, and wash hands well, prior to playing in a public park.  Which is unreasonable.  If she asks someone to please put the snack away because of an allergy, most people who aren't jerks would comply. But no I'm not going to tell my kid he can't eat his granola bar at the park because it's possible that someone, somewhere, is allergic to an ingredient in it. [/quote]

I think the problem is precisely what you are seeing on this thread. Can you imagine having a child with a severe nut allergy in this world and dealing with the litany of PPs who have insulted her kid as "gene deficient" "Immunocompromised - in italics to insulate non-existence", and the other completely cruel, below the belt taunts at what is a preschooler? I just cannot believe what people with chronic illnesses and/or conditions are up against. So yes, she is asking for consideration and keeping the nut products at bay. It is not unreasonable. It offends no one's sensibilities as it is a quite relatively small ask considering.

But in light of the pages of DCUM terrorists, I think this pretty much sums this up - [b]I'm just in constant awe and what total self absorbed jerks Americans are. We're really freaking terrible to each other.[/b][/quote]

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