Classroom Presentation

[anxious]

I was thinking about having my son do a classroom presentation about his food allergy. I saw one on FAAN and seeing if there were others out ther with elementary aged kids?

[maeve]

I would not advise it.  If he wants to share that information with his friends that's his choice.  However, I would not allow my DD to do a presentation on her allergy.  It would make her a target because her medical condition would be disclosed.  Trust me it gets disclosed as it is and that certainly opened her up to bullying in first grade.

IMHO, that's really bad advice on FAAN's part.  I honestly don't know of any other organization representing medical conditions that advices having children do a presentation to their classmates on their medical condition.

[CMdeux]

DD has never wanted to.

We've never asked her to, either.

[Mfamom]

I probably wouldn't do it either.  My son did have good luck just putting it out there during the course of school.  he's a freshman now and back in early elem. I didn't have a lot of know how on handling his allergy.  thankfully, we had great support from parents etc.  tight group of moms and that helped a lot.  It could go either way and personally, I would not take a chance. 

Is this something you're thinking of as asking for some time for your child to share or a topic selection for a classroom assignment?