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" Oh, yes he was up all night with a temperature but I thought I'd send him.."
"He's been so ill that his eczema is so bad that he is bleeding behind his knees, I don't know what to do about this, so I have left it, just change his trousers a few times..."
For goodness sake! Have these people not heard of the doctors, the pharmacy and thought that maybe their kids need to stay at home and rest for a day or so. Aside from consideration to other people. I can only assume it is their technique for hardening up their children for a life of crime/ a job in the city.
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One of my biggest gripes is people intentionally spreading germs - have a day at home and recover and don't infect the rest of us
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Hmm, this is a really difficult one. I am a SAHM and yes my two can be full of germs but still want to go to school or preschool. I have to make a decision based on my knowledge of them as my children. I would never sent them if I thought they were really ill though.
Sometimes a runny nose or a cough can linger and I will send them.
I would never put others at risk, would never sent them with D&V and infact the school has a 24 hour exclusion policy not that many people take notice of it.
My opinion is let them get chickenpox etc whilst they are younger. I didnt and got them as an adult and really suffered!
I will admit to having sent the boy to school with a sniffle or a cough, but that's as far as it goes. D&V or having been up all night ill is a good enough excuse for a day off if you ask me.
That said, if it's me it's a case of dose myself up and head in to work. The aircon there was probably the one that gave it to me in the first place!
When my older daughter was younger she had nits and I kept her home from school ( contagious but in a different way), until I realised that keeping her off wouldn't do any good as she would catch them again from another offender, so I just treated her and sent her back to school with no "live" critters in her hair. Since then I have treated colds the same. If it's just a cold, runny nose etc then I would send her if she was alert and able. But never would I send her with temperature etc.
I send S if he still wants to go to school and hasn't been sick or had a temperature. Otherwise he'd constantly be at home! x
i can totally sympathise - I ended up getting very angry with the day nursery my smallest attended once a week as she was always picking up horrible bugs from the children who were brought in despite being obviously unwell :( It isn't fair on the staff to have to deal with it as well!
Urg - how stupid.
I put off coffee dates with other mums if the LD has so much as a cold - because a. I want him better asap, and b. i wouldn't wish a snotty snuffy baby on anyone!!
People are daft.
Haha. Loved your mention of life of crime/job in the city in one sentence. Yip, have to admit that there were some similarities.
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