Comments on: Don’t make your allergies my problem http://tonychung.ca/2009/01/dont-make-your-allergies-my-problem/ Tony Chung is a Vancouver-based creative communications consultant who develops and optimizes websites, produces multimedia and music, writes and illustrates technical documentation, and blogs the living daylight out of faith, family, pop culture, creativity, technology, art, and whatever picks his fancy at the moment. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tony Chung http://tonychung.ca/2009/01/dont-make-your-allergies-my-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-1632 Tony Chung Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:39:57 +0000 http://tonychung.ca/?p=458#comment-1632 Hi Kathy, Thanks for taking the time to provide a thoughtful reply to my opinion. I agree that as a parent it's especially challenging to find solutions for what ails our kids because they can't truly express what's wrong—only that something doesn't work. It must be even more difficult in your situation, where you deal with a number of kids from different backgrounds. However, being severely allergic to certain environments shouldn't be any more different than missing limbs, hearing, or eyesight. They are all conditions that the human spirit has the capacity to rise above. It's true that the world does need to adapt, as we have seen by the increase in accessibility requirements. At the same time as individuals we need to learn how to play the hand we're dealt, and work through the obstacles without any sense of remorse or pity. Joel Stein's point that by making more of this pandemic than any other "disability", we enable our kids to be problem-focused and not solution focused. I believe in God's divine healing, too, but there are times when He leaves us to toil with "My grace is sufficient for you". He solved a lot of problems by giving us creative brains. We need to discover solutions to our own problems, and not rely on the government or other external bodies to do that for us. I hope this doesn't turn you off from reading my other posts. Regards, -Tony Hi Kathy,

Thanks for taking the time to provide a thoughtful reply to my opinion. I agree that as a parent it’s especially challenging to find solutions for what ails our kids because they can’t truly express what’s wrong—only that something doesn’t work. It must be even more difficult in your situation, where you deal with a number of kids from different backgrounds.

However, being severely allergic to certain environments shouldn’t be any more different than missing limbs, hearing, or eyesight. They are all conditions that the human spirit has the capacity to rise above. It’s true that the world does need to adapt, as we have seen by the increase in accessibility requirements. At the same time as individuals we need to learn how to play the hand we’re dealt, and work through the obstacles without any sense of remorse or pity.

Joel Stein’s point that by making more of this pandemic than any other “disability”, we enable our kids to be problem-focused and not solution focused. I believe in God’s divine healing, too, but there are times when He leaves us to toil with “My grace is sufficient for you”. He solved a lot of problems by giving us creative brains.

We need to discover solutions to our own problems, and not rely on the government or other external bodies to do that for us.

I hope this doesn’t turn you off from reading my other posts.

Regards,

-Tony

]]> By: Kathy http://tonychung.ca/2009/01/dont-make-your-allergies-my-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-1497 Kathy Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:29:47 +0000 http://tonychung.ca/?p=458#comment-1497 Actually, as a daycare teacher, I've seen the effects of peanut allergies in very young children who cannot make the distinction that they just don't like the smell, or don't want to eat peanuts. I also have an adult friend who can go into anaphylactic shock if he eats anything with nuts or nut oil. It has seriously hindered his social life. We have been diligently praying for his healing. Peanut allergies and peanut free schools are a pain for parents and students alike, but the allergies are real, they are dangerous, and even deadly to some. Actually, as a daycare teacher, I’ve seen the effects of peanut allergies in very young children who cannot make the distinction that they just don’t like the smell, or don’t want to eat peanuts. I also have an adult friend who can go into anaphylactic shock if he eats anything with nuts or nut oil. It has seriously hindered his social life. We have been diligently praying for his healing.
Peanut allergies and peanut free schools are a pain for parents and students alike, but the allergies are real, they are dangerous, and even deadly to some.

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