Allergic Living recently published an article by Allergy Force CEO and Co-founder Gayle Rigione in This Allergic Life — I Have to Act: My Adult Son Is Complacent about Food Allergies.
The article shares a food allergy mom’s experience mastering new ‘not-parenting’ parenting skills to guide her adult son in making safe food allergy choices — especially since he’s become more complacent about them. She wrestles with loss of control over some of his decisions (like not carrying TWO epi’s everywhere) and tries to influence his decisions from afar now that he’s grown and flown.
Gayle Rigione writes, “Not-parenting parenting of an older teen or adult child with food allergies means never shying away from the hard allergy conversations. It means you brave being brushed off, dismissed. It means you keep trying… because you love hard. Always.” Learn more…
Allergic Living informs, engages and assists readers living with food allergies, and environmental allergies and asthma. Their mission is to be the authoritative and trustworthy source of news and information for the allergy community.
Gwen Smith, is Allergic Living’s co-founder and editor. Gwen is a journalist with years of experience in both Canada and the U.S. She has been the deputy managing editor and national editor of The Globe and Mail newspaper, the editor-in-chief of a national women’s magazine, a magazine writer and a radio and TV producer at CBC. She and the editorial team may be reached at editor@allergicliving.com.
Credits: Thank you to Gwen Smith for her deft editorial hand and Allergic Living for publishing the article in This Allergic Life.