Home Featured Content Article Archive Directors' Choice Awards About Us Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Teacher Quicksource Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Blog State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 5/19/2005 8:44:00 PM Author: Terri Subject: nuts about the media I agree that the media has hyped up every possible danger to childhood. A recent article in Psychology Today examined the "nation of wimps" we are creating. I grew up in the days when kids with allergies coped. I am sure peanut allergies are not new to mankind, but why is it now that drastic measures affecting a large group are the only "solution" for one or two of that group? Is it fear of litigation? I dont think it is compassion for those with alleriges as much as I think it is fear of litigation that creates those all out bans of supposed allergens. I never saw a kid suffer in school while growing up, and I am sure we all had PB&J; sandwiches. I think the kids with allergies need to be protected, but i dont think every school, restaurant, baseball stadium and ice cream truck need to ban peanuts and peanut products. I think it is going overboard. Wouldnt it be strange to go to a baseball game and be told that one person there is allergic so nobody can have peanuts? Name: Email: Subject

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