Henry is a purple cat. Each room has an animal and a color theme that ties in to the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? You can see that his room has quite a bit of purple in it. Henry's favorite color has always been red, but he has recently changed it to purple. He told me that he or Jack always "sits on the V" on the blue rug at circle time. I thought he meant that he sat on the corner until I saw this picture.
The only thing I'm a little concerned about is that they are not a peanut-free facility. The director said they would like to be, but it is too difficult. At the parent open house before school started, the teacher told everyone that the purple room was peanut-free due to an allergy. None of the parents said a word that night, but the next day we got an email that kids could pack peanut butter in their lunches. I guess a parent or two complained. I really don't understand the dire need for peanut butter when a child in the room has a life-threatening allergy. Somebody help me understand this from another perspective.
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I don't get the peanut free complaints either. I guess it's a convenience thing.
The place Violet and Mace go to are hard core about being peanut free. I got a warning in Mace's lunch box last week on something that I don't think even had peanuts in it. It was a granola bar. I checked the box and there were no peanuts on the ingredient list and Violet had the same bar in her lunch and her teacher didn't give me a warning. I felt like I had gotten in big trouble. :) It was a big red note.
I guess the parents who have to worry about peanuts can feel good that they take it seriously. :)
Would be nice if they would have the peanut butter eating kids wash their hands after lunch.
That is probably the most stupid thing I have heard this week. Why would anyone want their kid to have peanut butter for lunch so badly that they don't care if another kid can take damage of it? Or don't they care because it isn't their kid?
And I agree with Solveig, make the teachers aware of the problem and make sure that the kids wash their hands (and brush their teeth) if they eat peanut butter in school. Bring information about peanut allergy to the parents, maybe they don't know what the consequences of Henry eating peanuts could be? Or tell the parents that salami or cheese are way healthier than peanut butter. (That isn't really true, but they don't seem to be that smart).
I'm glad all nuts (including almonds) are forbidden in Swedish schools.
Here here! At what point in time did peanut butter become such a diet staple?!
Looks like somebody got a haircut:)
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