Tell me what you really think.
My brother and I were weird eaters in school. I probably would have starved had the "peanut butter rule" been in existence. (And I agree: don't make it seem punitive but do have the allergic kids eat in a special peanut-free section. Better that than penalizing the whole school).
And school lunches were bad back in the 70s and 80s too. I wouldn't have touched one with a ten-foot pole.
I also wonder ab out the increasing "nanny state" of schools peeking into lunchboxes and lunchbags to make sure the kids have a properly "nutritional" lunch - you wouldn't ever have got me to eat celery sticks, for example, in third grade, and I would very likely have thrown away the whole lunch as "contaminated by them" if they had been in there.
some kids just have eating issues they need to work through without being forced into conforming to the "norm."
Loving her as you do, the smart thing to do is point my way and say, "wrong guy!"
Your words are an echo from the future, my own admiration for mine spoken twenty years hence.
"Let the allergic kids eat somewhere else?" Shame on you, Mamacita. Seriously, I'm going to assume you just didn't think it through before you said that.
Peanut allergy isn't like other allergies; airborne sensitivity in anaphylactic reactors isn't a joke or an exaggeration. Maybe your kid claims not to like anything but peanut butter, but that's the one food that can KILL my kid. Given the choice between your picky kid having to learn to eat something else or my kid dying, guess which one I pick?
Actually, my son outgrew his anaphylactic allergy to peanuts (which is very rare to do), thank God. Thank God because the way people treated him was almost more of a burden than the allergy itself.
That was so sad 
I had (still have actually) really curly, long hair and every day before school my dad would try to braid it for me, mostly because if he didn't I would come home with bits of other kids lunches stuck in it, but also because that was some of the only time we got to spend together each day. Most nights I would be asleep before he ever got home (3 kids - 1 wife = 2 jobs).
I start school in 2 weeks (my senior year of college) and he insisted on buying me school supplies this year. Pens, white out, notebooks, even some clothes.
p.s. I'm allergic to peanuts. But not terribly. Nobody ever made the kids in my school stop eating them or their by products.
Awwww, you made me teary eyed, Jane. SugarPlum is mad at me, too, but I'm not nostalgic yet, so it's just aggravating the crap out of me! I have giggled a little bit over it. Nine-year-old righteous indignation is just a tiny bit funny.
What a sweet post. My baby was skinny too (as was I) and my mom always tried to get both of us to eat so "we wouldn't look like we had tuberculosis".
What a beautiful girl you have! I have one too and admire her very much.
Belle is so beautiful!
Why is she mad at you? It's a silly waste of time.
Anyway, good luck with the diet. I'm praying that the dental surgery heals up quickly and that the bruised middle fades. It's not fine wandering into middle age and dealing with medical stuff, but it sure beats the alternative!
I hope you blog about your upcoming classes. Somehow, it just feels like time for some more "firly brinkmires".
She is lovely, as are you.
At the beginning of an international flight a few months ago, the flight attendant warned us not to eat ANYTHING with peanuts -- not even to open a package containing peanuts -- because there was a peanut-allergic person on the plane.
I can see one flight without peanuts (begrudgingly), but banning them from schools is ridiculous, especially when it's easy enough for the allergic kid to eat in a peanut-free zone. How about the teachers' lounge? Principal's office? Library? It's not fair to punish the rest of the kids because of the allergic kid's problem.
It's your problem to accomodate yourself to the world, not to make the world accomodate itself to you.
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