Donating Blood

I just got home from work and picked up the mail on the way in. As I'm leafing through it, I notice that my youngest son is once again invited to give blood at the school he attends. It was just a month or so ago that he received a notice in the mail stating that the last batch of blood he gave was "low" and he needed to wait before giving again.

Giving blood is a wonderful thing but I don't think it's right to harvest blood from school-aged children, even college kids. Yes, they are old enough to vote and go to war but they are still just kids. For example:

I said, Andrew, donating too much blood is not healthy. He said, I donate every time they come to the school. I said, why? He said, "Because they give me a cookie."