Thai airways nuts policy

[pat25d]

My kid's school does not allow anyone to take peanut butter sandwiches into the school grounds. Even muesli bars with peanuts are banned - for the whole school. I expect this is becoming more common at schools. We now have a whole generation of kids growing up without peanut butter sangers at school.

What a joke.

Time for overprotective parents and cotton balled kids to suck it up.

 

[AVC]

, the school yard where kids have peanut butter sandwhiches,

You'l find that a lot of schools are actually fully nut-free. As NM said. Our daughter's school specifically disallows children from bringing peanut butter sandwiches to school (or nuts a-la normal).

I know of incidents where one child has had a bite of another child's sandwich at school and ends up on the wrong side of a cannula. (not our school)

Allergies (especially to peanuts and shellfish) can be quite serious. Without intervention, they can be deadly. Not something you can suck up really.

 

[pat25d]

You'l find that a lot of schools are actually fully nut-free. As NM said. Our daughter's school specifically disallows children from bringing peanut butter sandwiches to school (or nuts a-la normal).

I know of incidents where one child has had a bite of another child's sandwich at school and ends up on the wrong side of a cannula. (not our school)

Allergies (especially to peanuts and shellfish) can be quite serious. Without intervention, they can be deadly. Not something you can suck up really.

Everything in life is dangerous, the more you wrap kids up in cotton wool the worse it is for everyone.

The funny thing is that not consuming peanuts is a contributing factor to peanut allergies, so if you stop kids eating peanuts it's going to make the situation worse in years to come.

 

[Rallo]

What a joke.

Time for overprotective parents and cotton balled kids to suck it up.

I fail to see how ensuring your child not dying from an allergic reaction is wrapping them in cotton wool!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I fail to see how ensuring your child not dying from an allergic reaction is wrapping them in cotton wool!

I guess it comes from the school of thought that the dramatic increase in the number of children suffering from allergies is related to modern parenting - in particular perhaps overzealous parents who protect their children from everyday dirt and germs that many older people were exposed to (and the many many previous generations that just didn't suffer this way).

So wrapping in cotton wool from an early age then has conseuqnces that everyone else is now expected to have to put up with... or so the school of thought goes.

I'm not entering into the debate as to whether or not that concept or theory is right, just that it exists and that can be the cause of the sentiment.

There perhaps also comes a time when some people think that enough is enough and question where the line is to be drawn. One teenager dies from the consumption of energy alcohol drinks, so there is a demand to ban all alcohol energy drinks. One child dies from an allergic reaction so whole schools ban peanut butter. One primary school in Australia has a 'no contact' rule and this even extends to children doing a 'high-five'.

Again, not wanting to debate the merits of either side, but you can perhaps begin to see how some people may subscribe to the 'cotton wool' argument.

 

[extracta]

I fail to see how ensuring your child not dying from an allergic reaction is wrapping them in cotton wool!

Because if the food is an issue then the parents just have to not let the child eat food prepared by anybody else.

In this case they are asking an airline to ensure them that there is no peanuts in the preparation of the food. If they were really concerned they would not let the child eat the airline food regardless of what the airline or anybody else said the food had or did not have in it.