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You also get into the problem of finding something else for the kids to eat. I remember in grade school I pretty much lived on PB&J sandwiches every single day because I wouldn't eat anything else.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 04:59 PM) But the issue isn't kids with peanut allergies grabbing a peanut butter sandwich because he feels left out. It's that peanut residue can be on the table they eat at, and get digested by the kids. That can happen literally anywhere in public that kids are. Playgrounds, restrooms, restaurants, friends houses...

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 06:01 AM) Still doesn't mean I think the entire world needs to adapt to my kid. It's logic like this that confuses and annoys me. This is more entitlement minded bulls***..."my kid is sooo important that I'm entitled to everyone else having to change what they can eat/do while around them". How about no...I want no part of that. Would that be the best of situations for any parent, including myself? Hell no, of course not. But on the flip side, I don't want my kid living in a bubble wrapped world...but that's exactly what you just asked for. If my kid has some sort of deficiency to THAT insane of a degree, I'd home school them, because who's to say some kid won't bring some peanut butter to school and do it anyway just to see what happens?! Oh, that's right...nothing. In other words, there is danger out there...and if you don't want them to ever be in any potential danger, wrap them in a bubble and keep them indoors and lifeless throughout your days...but this is no alternative IMO. This. Especially the home-schooling part. If a kid is that severely allergic to something, why take the risk at all? Usually if they are that sensitive to it, it's not just peanut butter. It's anything that has peanuts in it. Granola bars, trail mix, snickers bars, cereal... Should they ban all that stuff from lunches too?

I assume the water that comes out of the water fountains at my work comes from Lake Michigan and it tastes awful. I get water from the water cooler instead. When we go camping we are forced to use bottled water because all the water at the campground comes out smelling like rotten eggs. We even use a house filter on our trailer and it doesn't help much.

I think it's more important to teach kids to be careful and watch out for themselves rather than to teach them that the world will watch out for them. They aren't going to be able to walk into any grocery store, restaurant, lunchroom, house, etc... and tell everyone there "Hey I'm allergic to ______ so nobody else here can have it."

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 01:30 PM) But where do you draw the line on this? Peanut Butter, Nuts, Honey? While more common, there ARE other allergies out there...such as dairy, etc...should we just ban all food because of such a possibility? We all made it through school eating peanut butter...kids that were allergic to it...well, they just didn't eat it. We also used to have classroom parties for Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's day, etc... One of my best friends in grade school was a Jehovah's witness. On the days of these parties, he just wouldn't participate. It was never a big deal. They don't have any classroom parties anymore for the same basic reasoning. "If my child can't have it, nobody can". Like I said it's getting ridiculous.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 12:54 PM) I think the schools would rather eliminate the possibilty of a screwup completely rather than get gutted in a lawsuit because a dumb teacher/lunch lady gave the wrong kid a sandwich with pb on it and have the kid die in front of his/her classmates. I know what you are saying, I wish people could all be infallible after being taught things, but people screw up a lot. I've heard of schools banning it completely so that other kids can't even bring a PB&J sandwich from home.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 19, 2012 -> 10:13 PM) I don't think so.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 12:16 PM) Oh yeah I missed that. I thought it was a "we have to make single parent kids feel like they're the same despite the fact that they're not so let's cancel the event for everyone." I didn't realize it was a gender stereotyping issue. That's even more f***ed up. That's exactly how it started though.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 11:38 AM) You all missed half the point. The ACLU was saying that the schools had no business in trying to 'force' these gender stereotypes that all girls want a dance or that all guys want to play sports. So the mere fact that it is daddy-daughter dance, and not parent-kid dance is one of the complaints. It's only an issue if they weren't allowing moms to bring their daughters to the dances or dads to bring their sons to the baseball game. I have yet to read if this is true or not.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 11:02 AM) I think his point was that instead of giving kids with nut allergies something different than peanut butter, schools have decided to just not give peanut butter to anyone so that the kids with the allergy don't feel left out or different. ^^^ That's exactly what I meant. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 11:16 AM) That makes more sense. I read it like, "Any kid with peanut allergies, go sit in this corner of the lunchroom, so the normal kids can eat what they want" Actually, at my daughter's school that's exactly what they do. She told me that at least one kid has to sit in a completely separate lunchroom. Surprisingly, the kid's parents haven't complained to the school that they need to completely ban peanut butter and all other products that may contains nuts. Instead they let their kid know that he's a little different than all the other kids so he has to do things a different way and it's OK.

I just took my daughter to a father/daughter dance last year. She had a great time. I didn't really pay attention but I'm sure if any of the girls came with someone other than their father they weren't denied entrance. This thinking by parents of "If my kid can't have it then why should anyone's kid" is getting ridiculous. They act like it's some horrible thing for their kid to learn that they may be different than everyone else and not everyone gets treated exactly the same. This is just as bad as schools banning peanut butter from lunchrooms because one kid is allergic to it rather than separating out the single kid. I hate to see when these kids grow up and realize that the rest of the world doesn't always conform to them and they have to deal with it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 18, 2012 -> 03:46 PM) Good catch. I fixed it. Can you come fix my TV next? One of the buttons is broken on it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:36 PM) There are a lot more options in the summer. QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:54 PM) Summer camp, summer jobs, a million other things that people plan for. Some parents get part time jobs during the school year. I'm not even talking about the summer. I'm talking about all the days during the school year that kids get off. There are a lot of them. For example my kids are only in school for 3 days next week. There are parent-teacher conference days, institute days, holidays that most people don't get off (Columbus Day, Veteran's day), etc...

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 11:19 AM) I do a lot of legal aid. None of them are supporting the teachers, they just want their kids back in school so they dont get fired for taking days off. A lot of people are concerned that they are going to lose their jobs because they have to stay home to take care of their kids. I went to the protests to try and see how many "regular" people were there, not many. I don't understand why this is such a problem for so many people. What do they do with their kids the other 180 days/year they aren't in school?

QUOTE (farmteam @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 12:08 PM) Unless you are Tom Selleck. Or Paul Teutul Sr.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 14, 2012 -> 06:28 AM) Olney said you can't rule out Ozzie getting canned. This is like predicting snow sometime between now and April. Will anyone really be surprised when it happens?

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 11:24 AM) I guess you didn't read your math book, because if you did, you would have comprehended all of it! HAW HAW I always did well on the math portion of standardized tests by simply knowing that the correct answer was always one of the choices. It was just a matter of plugging each one into the formula and seeing which one fit.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 02:25 AM) My college withdrawals are at an all-time high. It took about 10 months for me to hit the bottom. I miss my friends so much. I'm struggling bad right now. If you're coming to Rockford, check out Forest Hills Lanes. They have sand volleyball leagues, softball leagues, kickball leagues in addition to the aforementioned bowling.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 07:52 AM) I'm not sure if this was a solicitation for advice, but here it is anyway: Try to become part of some kind of group. For me, it was finding a church that I liked that also had several people my age. If you aren't religious, then some kind of common interest. If you play poker join or form a weekly home game. Maybe there is a local Sox hangout where you can meet other Sox fans. Making friends takes more effort when you aren't surrounded by hundreds (or thousands) of other single people your age on a 24/7 basis. I've found that it's incredibly rare and slightly awkward to make new friends as a adult. Especially after you have kids. With Facebook and email it's easy to sort of keep in touch with old friends from high school and such but I really only have 2 or 3 people that I still know well enough to actually hang out with on a day-to-day basis. It was so much easier as a kid. You'd see someone everyday at school, have them come over and check out your GI Joe collection and maybe play catch outside, then suddenly you're friends. Honestly my wife and I met more people in this past year because we've become permanent campers at a campground. We typically only see them on weekends but we've gotten to know them well enough to exchange cell #'s and they even gave us a spare key to their camper for emergencies. They also have kids around the same age as our kids, so it works out pretty well.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 01:01 PM) Daver's apparently a cop. He threatened me over email after I got permabanned for posting about something that wasn't even illegal and he ended up posting some s*** about how my posts could result in lawsuits for them. The administrators over there are just awful. They run their forum like it's 1980 in Communist Russia. In his real job he's a plumber, not a cop. He's also a game warden or something like that which again is not a cop. They also have a warped sense of understanding about copyright laws and fair use. I'm just waiting for him to get wind of this thread and reply to it since, IIRC, he's registered here too.

Cubs too. Edit: Nope, they're still not eliminated from the WC.

QUOTE (BobDylan @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 08:21 PM) Why did you ignore what I was really saying and jump to defense against a statement that really meant nothing? Seems the status-quo hasn't changed around here. It's been dead for a few years now and it's in the same boring state it was when I left two years ago. But like I was saying, message boards are meant to have new threads. New threads keep s*** interesting, and even though it may look "messy," it encourages participation and discussion. You notice the growth of this place has been stagnant for years? Before you answer that question, it was rhetorical. The userbase very well could be growing. But the discussion isn't. By just looking around I can tell this place is in a never ending loop, forever caught in a self-created meme and circle-jerk. Go Bears. Anytime something big comes up (like the AJ on peds rumor) a new thread is created and it gets discussed. It's just that those big events don't happen all that often. There's only so much to talk about during the season. Most people have a pretty good idea of what deserves it's own thread and what can be thrown in the catch-all. I think the catch-all actually promotes better discussion about the minor things that happen day-to-day with the Sox. The subject gets discussed and the conversations ebbs and flows as needed. Commenting on a guys batting average or who you think should start a certain game doesn't necessarily deserve an entire thread. With the major threads, there are usually only so many things that can be said. Typically everyone decides which side they are on, it gets discuss for a few pages, then somebody new comes in and repeats a thought that has been expressed 100 times already in the same thread. Then it all starts over again. Either that or the thread goes off-topic and a completely different discussion breaks out.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 06:49 PM) Also, Daver is a total jackass. The reason I dont post there anymore is that HE insulted me, and I "reported" his post. He took umbrage, and had me banned. When i asked "wtf"?", he made it a lifetime ban. This story doesn't surprise me one bit. The rules have never applied to the mods. It's like they are trying to drive away their posters. Many of them long-timers. Also in his mind, Daver is never, ever wrong.

I bought the latest DVD set of Sons of Anarchy and I'm trying to get through it as fast as I can so I can finally be caught up for the start of the new season next week. It really sucked not being able to watch the show last season but it's kind of nice not having to wait a week between each episode. Also no commercials so I can get through the episodes in 45 mins instead of an hour.