“…I realize that the more I understand of other people’s difficulties, the less funny they are.” --Joel SteinMany of you will recall that Joel Stein wrote a piece for the LA Times titled “Nut Allergies-A Yuppie Invention” last year questioning the increases in food allergies and attributing this to parents who... Read more
As some of you know, I have had the pleasure of training to become a life coach with Martha Beck over the last five months. After nine years of informally coaching parents and six months of coaching practice as part of my training, this month I officially started coaching parents who volunteered from my website. What an awakening! There is a... Read more
Families of children with food allergies can tell you that, at times, it seems their whole day to day life revolves around accommodating these special needs. More time, money, attention and medical care is spent on these children, yet in many cases, there are other children in the very same home, watching from the sidelines. I will never forget... Read more
A recent review commissioned by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) entitled Diagnosing and Managing Common Food Allergies published this May in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that there is much ambiguity in the food allergy world. In response to this review, we’ve seen a... Read more
We’ve been told that “It takes a village” to raise a child and that certainly is the case for a child with food allergies. As a grandparent, you naturally want the best for your grandchildren, yet the notion of a life-threatening allergy to an innocent food can be hard to grasp.
If your grandchild has been diagnosed with... Read more
