Bullies Use Peanut Butter to Threaten Children with Food Allergies
More bullying of those with food allergies…
Bullies use peanut butter to threaten those with food allergies
Parents of kids with severe [food] allergies say their kids are increasingly facing threats of being touched or, worse, forced to eat the food they have spent their lives avoiding
When Susan’s son was 7, a classmate smeared peanut butter on his arm. A harmless prank, perhaps, for many kids. But for her son it was potentially life-threatening, due to his severe peanut allergy.
“He didn’t mean to really hurt him,” said Susan, who asked to remain anonymous. “But it was like a loaded gun.”
May 17, 2008 @ 11:45 pm
My son said a few kids were putting acorns in his jacket hood, in his desk and throwing them at him in school line-up. I complained about it and the 3 kids were talked to and their parents had to come in to school. I haven’t had another incident since then. It is sad when other children do this but I know they don’t believe someone could be that allergic to a nut. Thank goodness people are becoming more aware and safer for our allergic kids.
I believe someday there will be kids menus for food allergic children in all fine restaurants. Everyone will know someone with a food allergy. Changes will be made all over the world. If there isn’t a cure, people will have to find ways to accomodate future customers.
May 18, 2008 @ 8:19 am
This is just the thing that scares the life out of me. I always say it…I’m so afraid of someone using my son’s allergies to harm him. I’m so sorry that you had to deal with this. No one understands what we go through keeping our kids safe from these life threatening allergies. It’s a full-time job.
May 18, 2008 @ 10:35 am
I have 5 children. Three of them are allergic to peanuts, tree nuts and sesame. (I haven’t tested one yet) This is so frightening for me to hear. i worry about when they are off at college with little supervision. People with children wothout food allergies don’t realize the work and worry that constantly haunts us. They talk so much about cyber bullying now, why not anout this?
June 3, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
We dealt with this a few months ago, and it still isn’t totally solved. For my own kids’ well-being, sometimes I have been really calm and good about it, other times the bully has done other things that aren’t related to food allergies, but give me concerns (for instance, drawing a man in a pool of blood on my son’s T-shirt on T-shirt autograph day). The child who is exhibiting the aggressive/disturbing behavior has an older brother doing inappropriate things, as well. Still not sure how to handle it, entirely–try to separate my kid from him, or teach him how to handle this stuff, for his own health and safety? What makes it really hard, too, is that my son sees the other boy as his “best friend.” A best friend doesn’t try to hurt you. That’s what I tell him, but it’s really hard to tell if they are just playing or if there’s more serious intent going on.
THANK GOD IT’S SUMMER.
June 6, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
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June 6, 2008 @ 4:27 pm
Leslea,
That is scary. My older son once had a “friend” who turned out to be a bully. Luckily he did not have allergies.
June 24, 2008 @ 4:30 am
This is scary. I think there should be some special classes where children be explained that these “innocent” pranks can really kill their colleagues.
June 28, 2008 @ 2:23 am
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