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Anonymous
Everyone feels sorry for your DC for having such a bad mom. |
Anonymous
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The cough often lingers for weeks after the respiratory infection. I kept mine home for an entire week for that bad cold but they are still coughing and may be coughing for weeks to come. No one thinks you should keep kids home for a month. After a few days they aren’t contagious but the lungs are still recovering.
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Anonymous
| I make my child wear a mask to school if he has a cough or runny nose. He understands that it's to prevent those symptoms from spreading to his classmates. |
Anonymous
😂😂 Seriously, my son is the most popular kid in his class. Moms are always asking for play dates so apparently I’m not too bad! |
Anonymous
| DCUM is the only place where you will find this many people who agree with you OP. In the real world people understand that coughs linger for s long time and many people have had a string of different viruses starting in September. My child would have been home for at least a month if I kept her home because she had a cough. I kept her home when she wasn't feeling well. No reasonable parent would keep their child home from school for a month because they are coughing. |
Anonymous
THIS. Also please realize that some people's coughs linger for longer than others. For example, my daughter has a cold, kicks it in a few days, and that's that. My son, who is more sickly, invariably gets viral-induced asthma and then develops secondary bacterial bronchitis, neither of which is contagious, and is coughing for a month. This was our September and early October. I took him to the doctor three times out of an abundance of caution. To be safe, they tested him for flu each time, and each time they cleared him to go to school. We tested him for Covid each day even though we knew he didn't have it and asked him to wear a mask, both for other people's comfort.... but I'm not sure what else we can do. Staying home for a month for a non-contagious cough would not be an excused absence. I would encourage people to have their kids wear a mask if they're not comfortable with t hem in a school with other kids during cold and flu season, and also would encourage them to tell their kids not to give anyone who coughs the stinkeye. My son, who is 9, was mortified. Not sure what to do for him so he doesn't feel like a leper. Pin a letter from his doctor to his shirt? The fact of the matter is, your kid is most likely to get flu or covid from someone who's in the prodromal stage and not yet having a fever staying home. So while it's easy to scapegoat someone who's coughing, it's lazy and and not helpful. |
Anonymous
That's good you have a great kid despite neglectful parenting. |
Anonymous
The difference is your child has documented asthma and you are a good parent who is testing and taking your child to the doctor to help resolve it. The other poster is ignoring her child being sick, which is neglect. |
Anonymous
Slow day at troll base? |
Anonymous
| I keep my kid home for a new cough. If no other symptoms (lethargy, runny nose, fever) they go back. Usually something else crops up first and its the cough that lingers for a month. People are contagious right before and right after symptoms start, bot the 3 weeks into a lingering cough. |
Anonymous
| Don’t complain when teachers are out sick. It’s amazing they aren’t always sick. |
Anonymous
| If you’re worried about it, get vaxxed and mask up. A vast (and admittedly anecdotal) majority of teachers and students are no longer masking, but a good KN95 would prevent transmission of most of the grossness going around. |
Anonymous
Take her kid to the doctor for what? Coughs linger. I cough for a month after basically any cold, so do lots of people. Doctors don't care because they understand that coughs linger. The best they can do is give you codeine which they're not going to give to a child. |
Anonymous
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Leaf blowers kicking up dust? Neighbors smoking cigarettes on the deck? Car pollution? Salty meal? Piece of breakfast cereal stuck in the throat? Moscas? 100k other ordinary ailments?
You keep holding your child back and when your discover (or accept) it was something perfectly ordinary you send them back? How often does this happen? |
Anonymous
Young babies should be home with a parent or nanny. If they attend daycare, its inevitable they will get RSV. |