Mum abused for giving daughter peanut butter sandwich in public
A mother has been abused for letting her daughter eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in public.
The mum, who remained anonymous, posed a question to users on parenting forum UrbanBaby asking if it had become unacceptable to eat peanut butter in public.
The mum wrote her daughter, DD, was eating the sandwich in a shopping trolley in Target when a woman stopped to “lecture” her about peanut allergies.
The mum added she doesn’t send her daughter to school with foods containing nuts but feels outside of that there is “no specific rule” and “it’s fair game”.
Many forum users were critical of the mum with some going as far as calling her an “awful, s***** parent”.
“That's really inconsiderate. So many kids have life threatening allergies to peanut butter,” one user commented.
“Eating it in a shopping cart guarantees it will be smeared on the handle, etc. It’s really awful you would do this. Sorry, but imagine if it were your child with the allergy.”
“So, if your kid ran into the street should I accelerate because she’s ‘fair game’? No, as decent members of society we look out for each other’s children! You’re disgusting and I’m not talking about eating in public,” another wrote.
Another user compared letting a child eat peanuts in public to smoking.
“No one is going to drop dead inhaling second hand smoke but a child could die because your kid smeared peanut butter on playground equipment,” the user wrote.
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Other parents leapt to her defence, claiming it’s not her responsibility to look after other people’s children.
“Smear away. Not your problem. Let those that have allergies worry about it and clean the cart!” one user wrote.
Another said if their child had a peanut allergy they’d take responsibility and help “them to adapt to the world around them, not b**** on some forum”.
According to Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia, about three in 100 Aussie kids have a peanut allergy with about 20 per cent of them growing out of it.
