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Mom who let 4-year-old eat PB&J in shopping cart branded a 'monster' by parenting forum
kcci ^ | Apr. 12, 2018 | Mike Moffitt

Posted on 04/12/2018 9:28:03 AM PDT by bgill

A mother on a New York parenting blog wrote Monday that while shopping at the retailer, she gave her four-year-old daughter a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and "a woman stopped me to lecture me about peanut allergies." The child's mother then asked other moms on UrbanBaby if it was unacceptable to eat peanut butter in public. The anti-peanut butter backlash was swift and brutal. Most responses attacked the mother for potentially endangering children with peanut allergies. Some criticized her for feeding her daughter in a shopping cart, which they considered disgusting. "That's really inconsiderate," one person wrote. "So many kids have life threatening allergies to peanut butter. Eating it in a shopping cart GUARANTEES it will be smeared on the handle, etc. It's really awful you would do this. Sorry, but imagine if it were your child with the allergy."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: New York
KEYWORDS: allergies; desperatehousewives; meangirls; mommybrigade; mommynazis; mommywars; peanutbutter; stepfordwives
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To: robroys woman

I grew up in peanut country. All the kids helped during the harvest. Everyone and everything was covered in peanut dust. During that same time, there was government peanut butter for the poor and for the schools. Every day, the lunchroom ladies put some form of peanut butter on our trays. A peanut butter cookie. A Dixie cup of peanut butter and honey. A blob of peanut butter with an apple. No one ever died of a peanut allergy.

That’s not saying there isn’t such a thing as people are allergic to various things. There’s ragweed allergies in the Spring which is a major complaint right now. When I was little, mom thought I was allergic to the red dye or flavoring in strawberry soda because I’d break out in hives but apparently I grew out of that quickly.

Truth be told, there are much worse ickies on shopping carts than peanut butter and jelly.


41 posted on 04/12/2018 9:43:50 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill
Lest we wonder where many of our societies problems lie (and I'm not referring to the PBJ "offender"). Peanut butter allergies were not an issue until the 90's came along, and I question whether PB is truly a problem now.
42 posted on 04/12/2018 9:44:04 AM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: heights

Geez, I clean every cart every time with about 20 wipes they provide. Just because you can’t see the germs doesn’t mean they aren’t there....old peoples hands go a lot of places too. Too many who do not wash hands after toilet or dog rear ends on the seats. A kid eating a sandwich in public doesn’t bother me...what about all those who can’t be without their giant coffee cups...or nose pickers


43 posted on 04/12/2018 9:44:51 AM PDT by Pilated (.)
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To: Blue Jays

Eating PB&J sandwiches in public?

Just another example of White Privilege. Dontcha know.


44 posted on 04/12/2018 9:45:12 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: bgill

My parents grew up in a world where for a meal, or consuming any food, you washed your hands, dressed suitably for the occasion and sat down together with utensils, plates or bowls also suitable to the place and occasion. A meal was a family gathering and social ritual. Mind you, my parents were working class too.

Abandoning these attitudes and rituals is part of the reasons Americans are so obese now.


45 posted on 04/12/2018 9:45:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Alberta's Child

“We never had autism either. “


Or ADHD-———those kids,and I had one,were called “antsy” or “class clowns”.

.


46 posted on 04/12/2018 9:45:53 AM PDT by Mears
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To: bgill
imagine if it were your child with the allergy

Having dealt with extended illnesses in my children, I can imagine. I would assume that all shopping carts and everything else in public was contaminated with whatever substance/allergen concerned me. I would - and did - take personal responsibility to protect my own child, rather than counting on everyone else in the world to think of everything that might somehow go wrong.

47 posted on 04/12/2018 9:46:06 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: rightwingcrazy

Doctors are now saying expose babies to little bits of pb so they won’t have allergies later on. Makes sense.


48 posted on 04/12/2018 9:46:09 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

The Moms (b*tches) on that forum will be the exact same ones, whipping out a boob in public to breastfeed.

And don’t you DARE question them on THAT! *Rolleyes*


49 posted on 04/12/2018 9:46:11 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: bgill

I guess if she gave the kid a chicken nugget Happy Meal that would be A-OK?


50 posted on 04/12/2018 9:46:28 AM PDT by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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To: DoodleDawg

I know. It is like going into an online medical forum to find out how bad some condition is that you just found out you have.

By the time you reach the bottom of the first page, you will want a cyanide capsule, noose, and firing squad all at the same time to ensure your hopeless, terminal condition doesn’t find a way to catch up to you first.

I can’t imagine going into a parenting forum.


51 posted on 04/12/2018 9:46:32 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: heights
"They are right. I don’t want to be cleaning grocery store carts before I use them."

Good luck with that. None of the grocery stores in my area bother to do it. I always end up having to throw garbage away that people leave in them.

52 posted on 04/12/2018 9:46:52 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Red Badger

The pro-mandatory vax people will simply say that the peanut allergies, like autism, were previously undiagnosed or mis-diagnosed. LOL!


53 posted on 04/12/2018 9:47:01 AM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: bgill

But if the mom were starving the kid to death on a vegan diet they would have praised her.


54 posted on 04/12/2018 9:47:33 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left. PS. f*ck the media.)
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To: redgolum

That’s the thing: Personal Responsibility.

No one has a right to make everyone else change their lives to accommodate their problems.


55 posted on 04/12/2018 9:48:29 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: GnuThere

“She should realize Americans are meant to eat in the car...”

LOL! While texting and applying mascara, too! ;)


56 posted on 04/12/2018 9:48:32 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: dfwgator

Knew a woman who insisted the sitter take her toddler outside to play but didn’t want it getting in the grass. What, make the child sit in a chair on the porch and twiddle her thumbs?


57 posted on 04/12/2018 9:48:47 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: SecAmndmt

While I don’t doubt they exist, I don’t think they are as prevalent as we are led to believe.....................


58 posted on 04/12/2018 9:50:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer. How did that menace to society ever become President?

-PJ

59 posted on 04/12/2018 9:50:07 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Jane Long
"I can’t recall ONE kid having peanut allergies when my siblings and I were in school."

Same here. I grew up in the 50's. My oldest sister graduated high school in 1958. We never heard of any peanut allergies.

"What caused the prevalent onset of peanut allergies?"

Jimmy Carter?

60 posted on 04/12/2018 9:50:28 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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