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We educated our son early to ask and to politely decline peanut candy at Halloween.
Fortunately, we live in an neighborhood where parents were sympathetic to such situations.
We did have to face a very dangerous situation at school where in Kindergarten, a helper forced our son to eat his peanut butter sandwich because 'everyone else is eating as told, so should you', despite his being told to say that he is allergic to peanuts.
Fortunately, we had his Epipen registered and on hand at the head office and it was administered when he started to show symptoms.
The helper was dismissed later after review for callous disregard of established procedures and not listening to our son.
Would we prefer our son not have the allergy and the associated problems?
Of course - what parent wouldn't, as would our son.
It isn't fun and it's deadly serious.
Sure would be nice if more people had some compassion for this.
I know that you have very strong feelings that you are right.... but I just do not see how it is everybody job to protect your boy... if he is allergic to peanuts, then only take him to neighbors that you know... do not show up on my door expecting me to make sure that my candy is 'clean'....
I also remember that when we were young, we did not hear about all these deadly allergies... I loved PBJ sandwiches.... so did my daughter... why should she suffer not having something she really loves for lunch because someone might have an allergy.... it is not like my daughter is spreading the PB all over the school...
I do agree that being forced to eat a PB sandwich is horrible... he should not have done so... be sent to the office and they would have handled it without him having a potential deadly problem...