Gobsmacked
Posts: 4,748 
April 29th, 2008, 08:00 PM
Bullies use peanut butter to threaten kids with allergies
Parents of kids with severe allergies say their kids are increasingly facing threats of being touched
or worse, forced to eat the food they have spent their lives avoiding....
Bullies use peanut butter to threaten kids with allergies
Parents of kids with severe allergies say their kids are increasingly facing threats of being touched
or worse, forced to eat the food they have spent their lives avoiding....
Dark Overlord
Posts: 2,595
April 29th, 2008, 08:18 PM
Quoting Zan
Honestly, they can educate these "kids" until they are blue in the face and it won't make a lick of difference. Until that person realizes themselves that what they are doing can kill someone else then that person will not change. Hopefully they will realize this before they actually do kill someone accidentally, as not all bullies remain bullies forever. That would be something that they would have to live with all their lives(and rightfully so).
Maybe it's time for schools to start educating students about just how serious such actions can be. This is ridiculous. How malicious we can be to each other sometimes.
April 29th, 2008, 09:49 PM
I can't help but suspect that the parents of these bullies are the same ones who refuse to comply with the peanut butter rules in their schools and scoff at the notion that their child should have to change their diet at all. The ones that repeatedly make light of the gravity of the situation in front of their kids.
I can't help but suspect that the parents of these bullies are the same ones who refuse to comply with the peanut butter rules in their schools and scoff at the notion that their child should have to change their diet at all. The ones that repeatedly make light of the gravity of the situation in front of their kids.
Dark Overlord
Posts: 2,595
April 29th, 2008, 09:53 PM
Quoting karrie
You may be right, Karrie. However, sometimes bullies are just bullies by themselves. They may do this to lash out against someone smaller than them since their parents are bigger than them and are always telling them what they can and can't do.
I can't help but suspect that the parents of these bullies are the same ones who refuse to comply with the peanut butter rules in their schools and scoff at the notion that their child should have to change their diet at all. The ones that repeatedly make light of the gravity of the situation in front of their kids.
Super Genius
Posts: 1,424
Location: Tula
Location: Tula
April 30th, 2008, 01:22 AM
And that was a grown up, clever woman, a prominent member of her church... What to expect of small kids?
Quoting Zan
It's not always about malice, actually, it's just that few people who don't suffer from allergies can really realize or believe what a kind of dangers allergic people encounter everyday. If you've been eating peanut butter all your life, it would be hard to believe that I might die after having just one bite. And sometimes people just don't believe that things are that bad, and it concerns adults as well as children. I can give an example. My mother has a terrible allergy to soy and soy products, it's just as strong as my nut allergy is. So, once when we were on a picnic with some of our friends, several years ago, one woman gave my mother some soy sausages, NOT telling her that this was soy. She meant no harm. She just didn't believe my mother was really allergic, so she thought she could demonstrate that soy's all right. Needless to say, my mother found that plot out after just one bite
Maybe it's time for schools to start educating students about just how serious such actions can be. This is ridiculous. How malicious we can be to each other sometimes.
And that was a grown up, clever woman, a prominent member of her church... What to expect of small kids?
Jerk Extraordinaire
Posts: 2,950
Location: Atlantic Canada
Location: Atlantic Canada
April 30th, 2008, 08:12 AM
And thus, school shootings were invented, and all was good in the world.
Quoting Zan
Son, if that bully threatens your life again with that stuff, here's my gun.... threaten his life with a bullet.... call it self defense. Bullies use peanut butter to threaten kids with allergies
Parents of kids with severe allergies say their kids are increasingly facing threats of being touched
or worse, forced to eat the food they have spent their lives avoiding....
Parents of kids with severe allergies say their kids are increasingly facing threats of being touched
or worse, forced to eat the food they have spent their lives avoiding....
And thus, school shootings were invented, and all was good in the world.
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Dark Overlord
Posts: 2,595
April 30th, 2008, 09:40 PM
And I am quite glad to hear that your mom did not suffer any serious harm, Vereya.
Quoting Vereya
You may be correct for most of the bullies. However, there may be a few that don't care one way or the other.
It's not always about malice, actually, it's just that few people who don't suffer from allergies can really realize or believe what a kind of dangers allergic people encounter everyday. If you've been eating peanut butter all your life, it would be hard to believe that I might die after having just one bite. And sometimes people just don't believe that things are that bad, and it concerns adults as well as children. I can give an example. My mother has a terrible allergy to soy and soy products, it's just as strong as my nut allergy is. So, once when we were on a picnic with some of our friends, several years ago, one woman gave my mother some soy sausages, NOT telling her that this was soy. She meant no harm. She just didn't believe my mother was really allergic, so she thought she could demonstrate that soy's all right. Needless to say, my mother found that plot out after just one bite And that was a grown up, clever woman, a prominent member of her church... What to expect of small kids?
And that was a grown up, clever woman, a prominent member of her church... What to expect of small kids?
And I am quite glad to hear that your mom did not suffer any serious harm, Vereya.
