Hi Risty,

Exactly my point, there is a time when you have to just live with the risks involved in just living life. I do feel sorry for this one mom but I don’t think it’s fair to try to limit all the hundreds of other kids in a school. I don’t think it is fair to the child with the allergy nor to the other kids. Like I said before, I think asking parents not to bring peanut related items to the classrooms for snacks and parties and things like that is acceptable (to me) as is having a peanut free table in the cafeteria etc...

I don’t think that homeschool is necessarily depriving kids of socialization because from what I understand they do have social activities with other homeschooling kids. They also participate in our local school sports organization. My son’s baseball team had two kids on it that were homeschooled. I just don’t have the patience to homeschool nor the desire. However, if my child had such a debilitating allergy, I would certainly try to either homeschool, so I could control the environment or I would try to find or start a school for kids with severe allergies. I have heard of a school in CA started by some celeb that is completely free of toxic chemicals. Meaning they don’t use cleaners that are not organic based. They serve only organic lunches etc.... That is the choice of those parents.

You said that you wouldn’t serve anything that your sisters were allergic too in your home. I think all of us would do that. I  wouldn’t serve foods, in my home, that I know would be a problem to any guest. I’m sure any guest that is coming over or any child who comes to play with my boys would let me know if they had any allergies just like I would let any parent know about my boys CAH.

Sandra