Your Kids Don’t Need Training Wheels for Peanuts

Your Kids Don’t Need Training Wheels for Peanuts

By KAVIN SENAPATHY, Slate

Products that promise to safely introduce children to certain foods are a waste of money. Here’s what you really need to know about allergens. The first time you give your baby peanut butter can be a stressful experience: What if they have a life-threatening food allergy that you never even knew about? How should you, as a parent, balance this fear with the emerging theory that early exposure to such allergy-inducing foods might be the best choice for your baby in the long run? When did peanut butter and jelly get so stressful?

Read more here: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/you-dont-need-special-products-to-introduce-your-kid-to-peanuts.html