OK, this is the first post on here for me so be patient. I'd like to start my first post with some thoughts and opinions and please feel free to give me your opinions. When the schools put restrictions on kids, when is it too much? I have a friend in Canada who posted that at her child's school, they cannot bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Now what if you have a picky eater and this is all he/she eats? My husband Rich told me that he heard somewhere that a kid had one of those granola or breakfast bar of some sort for lunch and had it taken away/confiscated because he didn't have the wrapper to show if it had peanuts or not. He got his entire lunch taken away because it was in with his other stuff . So this kid went the rest of the day without eating. Reason being: if a kid that has allergies to peanuts trade lunches and are allergic or touch anything with peanuts, they can go into anaphylactic shock and possibly die. OK maybe a little extreme but can happen. If you know your kid is allergic and is not supposed to eat the stuff, don't you think your kid should know this too? OK fine they can justify that. But the kid went without a lunch! I don't know about you but if the school did that to my kid, I would wonder why they didn't call me to ask if I could bring a replacement lunch or even have them feed my child something from the cafeteria and I pay back later.
I have another one where her kid cannot wear shoes with laces because they can tie them together and fall. So are they going to get rid of potato sack races? This is part of learning to balance and dealing with skinned knees. Yes I did this when I was little and I learned my lesson. One of the others I have heard that they don't allow them to have shoe ties is because other kids don't know how to tie their shoes and make them feel inferior and stupid. What! If you cannot take the time to teach your child how to tie a shoe then you are failing showing them simple things of life. My little one is three going on four soon and yes she is practicing how to tie her own shoes. She will know this by the time she starts school next year. We need to start paying more attention to the kids and teach them simple things in life. More of those to come. Well that is all for now but will try to post more opinions and advice from this mommy's point of view.
I can understand the peanut allergies for those severe cases, but yea they should have given the kid SOMETHING to eat. And the shoe laces making kids feel inferior? Such BS, I learned when I was three, my brother when he was closer to seven. He didn't care that he didn't know how, he just wore those zippy/velcro shoes. We are gonna have some pretty wimpy people in society if we are trying to make our kids NOT feel the more... trying, for lack of a better word, parts of childhood. We will end up having more of those "I get everything handed to me" people. Yippee.
ReplyDeleteWell, one thing leads to another, and what if the kid had dabetese? spelling? They could have killed the kid because they took away the peanut bar snack! What's wrong with this picture?
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