Tag: allergies

  • Children’s Allergies

    Over on the Daddy Blog, I shared a video of a 4-minute presentation I gave on one of the challenges of having a kiddo with food allergies. Watch the video below or click the link above to read the transcript. Also on: twitter

  • 40 Days with Food Allergies

    40 Days with Food Allergies

    Following your kid’s allergies for Lent isn’t as easy as I thought.

  • Food Allergies Aren’t From Bad Parenting

    Food Allergies Aren’t From Bad Parenting

    Source: How I made sure all 12 of my kids could pay for college themselves This missive from the parents of 12 kids is, all in all, a very interesting roadmap for raising a family, but I reject one particular portion. We did not have snacks between meals. We always had the four food groups…

  • Gratitude

    Over the weekend, Olivia went to the hospital. Like her previous hospital admit, she had an asthma attack at home we couldn’t get under control so we went to Dell Children’s Medical Center’s ER. Like last time, she needed to more medicine than we could administer to her at home so she was admitted. Four…

  • Baby Fed Nothing But Almond Milk Develops Rare, 500-Year-Old Disease

    Baby Fed Nothing But Almond Milk Develops Rare, 500-Year-Old Disease

    Baby develops disease after living with severe lack of nutrition because of almond milk. Source: Baby Fed Nothing But Almond Milk Develops Rare, 500-Year-Old Disease Packages of almond milk, in the United States at least, have warnings that it should not be given to children under 1 year old. Despite the headline being a bit…

  • Turning cupcakes into compassion

    When we use food to define culture, we declare that those who can’t eat the way we do are no longer part of that tribe. Source: Turning cupcakes into compassion My eldest suffers from food allergies. Originally, she was allergic to milk and all dairy (including casein, often found in “alternative ” cheeses), eggs, tree…