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60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds

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349 points zdw | 5 comments | 21 Oct 25 03:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.713s | source
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JCM9 ◴[21 Oct 25 21:23 UTC] No.45661908[source]▶
A lot of science supports the idea that helicopter hyper-parenting is hurting kids by having them grow up in an environment that’s too sterile. Let your kids go outside and roll around in the mud a bit. God forbid they lick the floor. Science says it’s good for them!
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eweise ◴[21 Oct 25 21:37 UTC] No.45662043[source]▶
Can't remember a single kid with a peanut allergy growing up in the 70s.
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1. guestbest ◴[21 Oct 25 22:03 UTC] No.45662302[source]▶
They probably weren’t allowed around you if you were eating peanut butter. Did you eat a lot of peanut butter growing up?
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2. kakacik ◴[21 Oct 25 22:34 UTC] No.45662584[source]▶
I grew up in communist bloc, finely oppressed by russians with their military bases all around, ready for nuclear WWIII that never came.

Peanut butter isn't something I ever saw before being adult and well into 90s, it simply wasn't a thing, I guess evil capitalist invention with the only goal to subvert our fine communistic paradise, like ie Star wars movies. Raw peanuts were frequent though, I guess one of very few things that actually made it through very badly functioning central planning and wasnt stolen by aparatchicks and collaborants for themselves. Never ever met a single kid having any sort of peanut allergy during growing up, never knew its a thing. I recall one or two with asthma, hay fever and thats it. But same could be said about any form of mental diseases/issues for whatever reason, anxiety, adhd variants and so on... either ignored, undiagnosed or really on much lower levels, dont know.

Kid misbehaving? A fine smack or some other physical punishment settled things at least in primary school. Then things started to change a bit till they overcorrected these days.

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3. casey2 ◴[21 Oct 25 22:51 UTC] No.45662736[source]▶
This is such a strange modern take. Parents didn't "allow" their children around others. Unless they were royalty most wouldn't spend more than 40 minutes a day with their parents. We don't see the that concept coming to American until the late 80s, early 90s in affluent neighborhoods to socially distinguish themselves from "ghetto" families
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4. codezero ◴[22 Oct 25 00:34 UTC] No.45663598[source]▶
not true, and although this is anecdata, it's worth mentioning. I had a friend who wasn't allowed to spend the night in the 80s because my parents let me keep my 410 shotgun under my bed (I didn't have any ammunition).
5. eru ◴[22 Oct 25 05:49 UTC] No.45665310[source]▶
The 'Zappelphilip' (fidgeting Philip) stereotype is pretty old in at least Germany. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter

So stuff like ADHD symptoms were definitely not unheard of.