I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.

Well again, I think the speculation about them becoming so common is based on the idea that kids are exposed to too much of it, too soon.

I just don't get how kids now are more exposed than, say, kids in my generation. We were all about peanut butter, and I never went to school with a seriously peanut-allergic kid. It's not that I don't believe it, I just don't get it.

I am now going to spend the afternoon reading up in PubMed on peanut allergies. Curse you people! I have things to do!

Sonofabitch is gone.

He's being replaced by the head of the Coast Guard, who by all accounts did a great job.

Here's your hat, what's your hurry; don't let the door hit you in the ass, on the way out; your cell is ready, and a 1,001 other platitudes to him.

I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.

At my kid's one-year checkup, the pediatrician looked me straight in the eye and said "For the next two years, your job is suicide prevention."

Damn straight.

First report: doctors mystified by increases in allergy rates. I also have garnered this lovely phrase: "negative peanut oral challenges".

Here's your hat, what's your hurry; don't let the door hit you in the ass, on the way out; your cell is ready, and a 1,001 other platitudes to him.

"Apology accepted." </Vader>

I think self-destruction is one of the primary goals of the toddler, right after not going to sleep and getting to the candy.

I really don't know how our species survived. You'd think all the little cave-babies and toddlers would've choked on rocks (Annabel is fascinated by pebbles) or poisoned themselves by stuffing random leaves in their mouths.

We were all about peanut butter, and I never went to school with a seriously peanut-allergic kid

Apparently there are a lot of peanuts in places you wouldn't expect them (e.g. skin oils), as well as there being cross-allergies to soy. A baby who's on soy formula young is supposed to be at greater risk of a later peanut allergy.

You'd think all the little cave-babies and toddlers would've choked on rocks (Annabel is fascinated by pebbles) or poisoned themselves by stuffing random leaves in their mouths.

You have a baby every year and you raise a quarter of them, if you're lucky.