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: 5/24/2005 10:58:00 AM Author: Hershey Subject: empathy I am in my late 30's - I grew up with nut allergies. I grew up with in-laws that had your kind of mentality. (didn't quite believe in the whole allgergy thing) Because of it, I was hospitalized over 30 times as a child. They didn't think, it would hurt to eat a nut and give me a kiss. nor did they thing it was necessary to wipe off a table that had been loaded with nuts. It's not just hype - there are some children who do get really sick. A simple policiy of no nuts - allows them to be normal children in school. If nobody accepts that - that the ONLY place these children can eat and feel safe is at home. They already can't go out to a restaurant to eat (really think about that - or eat at a birthday party, etc.) Are you going to pay for these kids private tutors because you think the nut thing is overboard? Empathy can be a real asset to a teacher. Name: Email: Subject

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