This mom is going way too far re: Nut Allergy

[DisneyNutMary]

I think I'll petition to have all pets removed from my cul-de-sac because I'm allergic to their dander.
I seriously wonder sometimes how our generation made it to adulthood with this sense of entitlement. Our parents did not go to these crazy extremes for us, they just taught us to be responsible for ourselves and make good choices.
The future generation scares me, we've babied them a bit too much.

 

[minkydog]

This is utterly ridiculous. She's afraid that someone will force feed him acorns as a bullying tactic? I say it's much more likely that if someone wanted to force feed him some contraband, they'd use peanut M&Ms. And what about teh pollen? Does she think the air in school is filtered? No! If there is oak pollen in the air, it's in ALLLL the air, not just the air at school. Every time the door opens, oak-laden pollen breezes in. If her snowflake is soooo delicate that he can't be near oak trees, I guess she'll need to move to Siberia and homeschool the little guy. No oak trees there.

 

[Robbi]

These are tree nuts:
almonds
Brazil nuts
cashews
chestnuts
filberts/hazelnuts
macadamia nuts
coconut
pecans
pine nuts (pignolia nuts)
pistachios
walnuts
The mom is a loon.

 

[bas71873]

I know I went to school in the dark ages but I don't remember any of this "nut allergy" stuff. How did we all survive?

My nephew is allergic to dairy, diagnosed as an infant. He was taught at a young age what to avoid and he is now a Senior in HS and has survived without intervention.

Can I ask an honest question? I never heard of all these nut allergies until I had DD. did we just not hear about these things when I was growing up? Seems lots of kids have this allergy and I'm curious as to why the sudden increase?

 

[CandyMandy]

Photo of the smothering mother:

Here is the costume she wore on Halloween:

 

[JessicaR]

I think the mother just needs some xanax. I do feel bad that her anxiety over this is making her irrational. Poor kids.

 

[cornflake]

My favourite part is that they may mistake the acorns for hazelnuts.

And then WHAT, lady?

I mean does she think kids these days run around with nutcrackers in their back pockets?

Are her children prone to eagerly licking unshelled nuts they find scattered on the ground?

Even if they think they're hazelnuts - then what? It's not like it's easy to get inside a hazelnut.

 

[Imzadi]

This is the quote of the mother:

I implore council to consider the mental well-being of these children and the cruel and unusual environment we would be subjecting these students to

What someone should say about this is:

"I implore council to consider the mental well-being of the mother and the cruel and unusual environment she is subjecting her children to."

I know I went to school in the dark ages but I don't remember any of this "nut allergy" stuff. How did we all survive?

Yes, if President Jimmy Carter, (the former peanut farmer,) ran for president today, there would be people shouting that he had been growing Weapons of Mass destruction on his own acres of land. He never would have been elected.

 

[marcyinPA]

and since she hasn't shown any latent squirell-like tendencies, I don't think she'll be snacking on acorns.

This made me laugh out loud!

 

[declansdad]

Photo of the smothering mother:

Here is the costume she wored on Halloween:

I think the mother is over the top but what do either of these pictures have to do with anything?

 

[LisaR]

My son was SOOOO allergic to our oak trees when he was little. If he picked up a single acorn, he would break out in hives. It was horrible and truly frightening since we had four huge trees on our property. I never once thought about removing them. If we removed ours, what about the neighbor next door or across the street who had the same trees? This mom is a loon. Thankfully, as my son aged, the allergy lessened. He also stopped picking up every single acorn he saw and stopped stuffing them in his pockets!

 

[CandyMandy]

I think the mother is over the top but what do either of these pictures have to do with anything?

Answers:

1. Put a face on the wack job responsible for all this discussion.

2. Encapsulate her persona (by showing a loon costume).

 

[MakiraMarlena]

are there any documented instances of a school age child (or anyone) eating an acorn because they mistook it for a hazelnut? and if a school age kid, who is old enough to understand what they are allergic to, found a hazelnut on the ground, would they put it in their mouth?

If she seriously thinks bullies are going to grab her kids and force acorns down their throats she ought to really consider homeschooling.

Honestly, the kids are allergic to tree nuts so she wants the trees cut down?

 

[aprilgail2]

Come on people I feel for those with children with issues, but where does this end. My wife's scholl is giving detention to kids for bringing peanut butter sandwiches for lunch because 4 kids out of 800 are allergic to peanuts. Really 4 out of 800? Those 4 kids and their allergies are allowed to dictate the eating habits of 796 other kids?

Maybe if you took the kids into the woods when they were little they would have built a tolerence for tree nuts and they would not have the issues.

it is amazing that the minority can rule the majority!


That woman should not worry about the trees, she should just wrap her child in bubblewrap and homeschool this way she has complete control!

 

[Imzadi]

it is amazing that the minority can rule the majority!


That woman should not worry about the trees, she should just wrap her child in bubblewrap and homeschool this way she has complete control!

Or she can drive around and enroll her kids in a school that does not have oak trees outside of it. Her kids are enrolled in a Catholic school. To my knowledge, those are private institutions. Meaning she chose to enroll them there. She can therefore choose to send them elsewhere.

 

[ChristmasElf]

I think this is outrageous.

http://www.newstalk1010.com/News/localnews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10465125

A mom wants the school to remove oak trees from the school yard and nearby area because of her son's peanut allergy. What the...So now people want to ban nature! I would laugh it wasn't so ridiculously sad. I don't know how this child is going to function in the world.

Ever hear of this before or did this woman discover a whole new level of entitlement?

Edited title should say Nut allergies, not peanut, thanks for pointing that out.

One word to this nutjob Mother----- HOMESCHOOL.
I hope the school doesn't cave in to her wishes.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

are there any documented instances of a school age child (or anyone) eating an acorn because they mistook it for a hazelnut? and if a school age kid, who is old enough to understand what they are allergic to, found a hazelnut on the ground, would they put it in their mouth?If she seriously thinks bullies are going to grab her kids and force acorns down their throats she ought to really consider homeschooling.

Honestly, the kids are allergic to tree nuts so she wants the trees cut down?

I agree espescially with the bolded. My DS is allergic to milk, eggs, peanuts and some tree nuts. He has known from a very young age not to eat anything with the word nut in it because it is so hard to distinguish on nut from another once they are cut up, AND, many facilities that use nuts use multiple varieties...better safe than sorry.

This lady is a true NUT job!

 

[LisaR]

I unders the fear of parents for their children with potentially deadly allergies. I understand accomidating any and all with medical conditions, limitations etc.

What I do not understand and will never understand is the idea that such huge accomidations should be made for the very few. Lets cut down all the trees, pave over all the grass, outlaw all peanut products at schools, and basicly pad every hard surface with rubber to make it a safer world.

Come on people I feel for those with children with issues, but where does this end. My wife's scholl is giving detention to kids for bringing peanut butter sandwiches for lunch because 4 kids out of 800 are allergic to peanuts. Really 4 out of 800? Those 4 kids and their allergies are allowed to dictate the eating habits of 796 other kids?

Maybe if you took the kids into the woods when they were little they would have built a tolerence for tree nuts and they would not have the issues.

As the mom to a kid with a million different allergies including nuts, who has never asked for a single accommodation for my son, I take huge exception to your last line.

Please, you really think a kid has an allergy to tree nuts because he has never been in the woods?

We used to take our kids hiking all the time when they were little. When they were too young to walk, we carried them in a special backpack. It didn't stop my son's allergies.

Ironically, the first anaphylactic reaction my son ever had was in the middle of a hiking trail (short, 1 mile loop thankfully). He was two and had a couple pieces of his sister's trailmix which contained cashews and walnuts. His sister was recovering from pneumonia so I happened to have prednisone and an inhaler with me just in case she flared up (she is allergy free). When my son started swelling up and couldn't breath, we gave him his sister's drugs while we rushed him to the ranger's station where they were able to epi pen him. He was taken to the hospital where we were told that his sister's medication likely saved his life until we were able to get an epi pen in him. It was there that we received the diagnosis of his first allergy: tree nuts. If only I would have made him sleep in the woods so he wouldn't have developed that allergy to tree nuts.

 

[crashbb]

Or she can drive around and enroll her kids in a school that does not have oak trees outside of it. Her kids are enrolled in a Catholic school. To my knowledge, those are private institutions. Meaning she chose to enroll them there. She can therefore choose to send them elsewhere.

Actually, in Ontario (where she is) there are two publicly funded school boards - the "normal" one (equivalent to a public school board in the US) and the Separate school board (where the schools are Catholic).

But, still, she did choose to go with the Separate School Board - she could either go with a school in the "normal" School Board or look for another school within the Separate School Board.

And, yes, before anyone asks, the fact that Catholic schools are publicly funded and no other religious schools are, can cause friction.

 

[Lilliputian]

I have a child who's incredibly allergic to many types of tree nuts--so many that the allergist says to assume he's allergic to all of them and avoid them all. He probably is allergic to acorns. I've never really worried about it since he turned 2, though. I just told him not to eat anything he finds on the ground, especially nuts. He's 8, and he hasn't had a reaction to acorns yet.