Left out: please learn to yes go out of your way to include my child

Please think about how it must feel to live every second of every day having to worry your child may have a reaction to something they are allergic to....let alone I have to worry like many others about not just one allergen they may come into contact with, but six.

Please realize my child deserves to be a child just like yours and will have to deal enough with popularity and fitting in without all this

Please realize it is becoming a epidemic, so educate yourself

Please realize there are little lives at stake when you complain that your child has been put into a peanut free classroom for example

Please realize you have no idea what it's like to walk in our shoes as mothers of allergic children

Please go out of your way to include my child. Feeling left out stinks, I will let you know first hand.

Why can't you all realize that this is not a game of fair or unfair. I hear all the time being a school nurse that well my child doesn't have allergies so why should they have to go without? Really!? I used to and still now that I have my own child with allergies say the same thing. My response is always this " why should anyone have to worry for a moment that they could loose their life?" That should be the worry not whether your non allergic child has to go without for one moment of their whole life.

Here's another favorite: your child's snack is not working out because the other kids want what he's having.

My respons for this while being in a school setting both self and the professional side is the same. "This is simple, too bad they are upset. We have to keep this child safe and they go without more than the other children know and welcome to the new world of allergies being a huge epidemic. You tell the other kids that life is not fair and that we all have to eat what is safe for us.

A third that angered me as a school nurse is parties: well before my child was diagnosed with allergies this instance fired me up. There was a school party for a holiday in a preschool setting and the parents were planning the party. A child who was there half day who had the allergens was going to miss the party because they purposely planned it in an afternoon when the child wouldn't be there so they could have ice cream. Really.....?

My response to this: how about we plan a party when your child is not there? How about you grow up and be the example a parent should be and teach what sharing, giving and taking means and have something other than ice cream.

Please seriously just educate yourselves and realize this is not a fad or a diet or a lifestyle choice for my child and many others, this is their only way they will live safely. To eliminate these poisons to their bodies. Get it? It's never been a choice so stop punishing these kids!

 

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