I'm curious as to when you started letting your small child eat peanut butter. I have heard a couple different things on this issue. Do you have any advice?

I've heard anywhere from 1 to 7, even not at all. I did about 18 months for each. I wasn't concerned about them having an allergic reaction, and I've heard that age of introduction has nothing to do with allergies, it has to do with how well they can communicate that something's wrong. By 18 months, I could tell if they were to act differently.

I'd have to say somewhere between 18 and 24 months was when I started giving peanut butter. I was more worried about giving too much and their tongue sticking to the roof of their mouth (although I've never had an issue) or something. Never seemed to be an issue though.

I haven't heard of any problems with peanut butter unless you are concerned with possible food allergies? All three of my kids ate peanut butter probably starting around a year old. Actually my middle daughter started earlier than that as she wouldn't let me feed her so I had to come up with stuff she could do herself. Always was "little Miss Independent".

My daughter didn't have peanuts until about 2 years, though she'd had other nuts and some nut butters before then. With nut butters, they can choke on the sticky bread. If you spread it on warm toast, that helps.

We'll probably wait longer with my son. He has eczema and some food allergies we haven't figured out yet.

My son is almost two and he doesn't like it, he doesn't even like bread. I give him the peanut butter on more than one occasion and he spits it out. I have seen other children eat it and they are ok.