Please stop sending sick kids to school!

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

All the more reason you yourself should not be a parent. You sound like a mess.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

You don’t seem to understand that THIS IS NOT YOUR SCHOOL’S PROBLEM.

Furthermore, unless you are truly a minimum wage, paycheck to paycheck living parent, this isn’t even an issue. This is you prioritizing whatever 9-5+ job/business you have for your own ambition or lifestyle goals.

I could also prioritize my career or more money, but instead I keep my kid home for the appropriate amount of time when they’re sick with the virus that you knowingly sent your kid to school with.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

And you didn’t know this before having kids? That they get sick and you may need to stay home occasionally? You think that you would never need to take off and if you do you won’t have food and shelter?

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

PP here. I was home without childcare for my then 1.5yo the first six months of the pandemic while I worked remotely. Said child (who is now 4) has also been home for three days this week with a bad cold he picked up at school and gave to our baby. Yes, it’s not fun. He should be in school learning and socializing but instead I kept him home. His teachers don’t need to be exposed to contagious kids or caring for under the weather ones.

The so called structure you say should be in place should be flexibility in the workplace. No one except 1:1 caregivers should be responsible for caring for your sick kids. This is why having young kids is hard.

Do you think everyone can work from home?

No, but again, that isn’t your schools problem. It’s yours.

Exactly. You want to work in person in a less flexible job, you need to figure that out.

Ahh yes all these people who “want” to work in person to make minimum wage and have zero flexibility. I didn’t realize that was their preferred way to make money rather than sitting on their couch getting paid to scroll DCUM.

Where did anyone say that they want to work in person at minimum wage? Bold it.

For your reading pleasure: “You want to work in person in a less flexible job”.

Who exactly do you think this entitled a-hole is taking about?

Regardless of who it’s talking about- minimum wage pancake flippers at IHOP, or a neurosurgeon- and I believe it’s talking about everyone, their sick kids are not the schools problem!

It’s all connected dimwit. It’s absolutely the schools problem when students and staff come to school sick. Instead of shaming the adults maybe we should look at why this is happening. Willing to bet it’s worse now because parents blew so much leave keeping healthy, quarantined kids home. I get it, everyone should have known 14-day quarantines for a novel virus was a real possibility before having kids. We’ll plan better next time, promise!

Plus, the PUBLIC SCHOOL standard is that kids are not "supposed" to miss more than 9 days a year. Of course we blew past that last year bc of covid but not we're "back to normal," and not every parent has nothing to fear from how schools will treat "chronic absenteeism." Plus if you keep them home for every runny nose, or for the 1-2 weeks it takes for the lingering cough to resolve AFTER staying home with the cold itself, that's a ton of schoolwork to make up. This is absolutely something that weighs into my consideration of how many days to keep a kid home. It's not just yes or no like the "be a parent" crowd says, it's "how long? What's 'better?'" Which none of you have addressed

So yes, it is the school's problem. Workplaces and schools have rules and leave policies that are structured around the expectation that mildly sick or symptomatic people will come in. You want change, change the policies, don't just yell at parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

No, this entire thread is not about a runny nose. The title clearly states “sick child.”
Btw, you’re the one who said you would lose your home and no food if you took a day off. Yet, you put other parents in the same predicament.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

And you didn’t know this before having kids? That they get sick and you may need to stay home occasionally? You think that you would never need to take off and if you do you won’t have food and shelter?

A lot of space here between "occasionally" and "20% of the time," which has been our average over the last year due to quarantines as well as actual illness. Did you find a job that gave you 10 weeks of sick leave before having kids? The past two years were. Not. Normal.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

They also get a runny nose from colds that are passed around. I guess yours don’t get runny nose from that. How lucky for you!

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

Just ignore the crazies and let this dumb thread die. No one is going to change their actions either way based on OP's or anyone else's rant here.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

And you didn’t know this before having kids? That they get sick and you may need to stay home occasionally? You think that you would never need to take off and if you do you won’t have food and shelter?

A lot of space here between "occasionally" and "20% of the time," which has been our average over the last year due to quarantines as well as actual illness. Did you find a job that gave you 10 weeks of sick leave before having kids? The past two years were. Not. Normal.

Do you need help with sentence fluency?

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

Just ignore the crazies and let this dumb thread die. No one is going to change their actions either way based on OP's or anyone else's rant here.

Maybe she can start a go fund me so she doesn’t lose her house if her child gets sick.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

And you didn’t know this before having kids? That they get sick and you may need to stay home occasionally? You think that you would never need to take off and if you do you won’t have food and shelter?

A lot of space here between "occasionally" and "20% of the time," which has been our average over the last year due to quarantines as well as actual illness. Did you find a job that gave you 10 weeks of sick leave before having kids? The past two years were. Not. Normal.

Yeah, and you think you were the only one? You aren’t special.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you lose your home for taking a day off to take care of your sick kid, you got other problems.

This entire thread is about sending kids to school with a *runny nose*. Not a fever, not covid, not strep. A runny nose.

I don’t know about your kids, but mine get a runny nose from fall allergies, from cold weather, from a teacher wearing perfume. If I kept them home every time they had a runny nose, they would miss weeks of school. So yeah, I can’t take off of work for a runny nose.

No, this entire thread is not about a runny nose. The title clearly states “sick child.”
Btw, you’re the one who said you would lose your home and no food if you took a day off. Yet, you put other parents in the same predicament.

Ha, what? Sorry, SAHM Karen, no one said that. You understand that working people can’t take leave from work constantly without potentially losing their job? And that a job provides money, that people use for their mortgages and food and other necessities, yes? So working parents can’t take off work every time their kid has a little sniffle because that would be weeks of leave, not a single day.

Your level of critical thinking is helping me understand how this thread has gone on for so many pages.

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry people can't take time off work every time their preschooler has a runny nose. It is a luxury only for SAHPs.

lol yes. Society shouldn’t be set up this way but unfortunately it is. I’d much rather stay home with muy kids and relax. I’d lose my job if I stayed home for all my kids runny noses.

Since you have a good job, you can afford to pay someone when you cannot take care of your kids. Or, your spouse can stay home.

Whew, yes, it's a good thing everyone with jobs has unlimited money

Money or no money, childcare for unwell children is not your schools problem. That is a responsibility you take on when you have kids.

Have you and your spouse been home with a toddler for at least one week of every month since summer 2021 due to either exposures/quarantines or every virus that laid low during covid precautions raring back? In the worst month, THREE weeks? Have you taken every inch of leave and flexibility your work would give you to the point that your boss's reaction out loud, when a new cold spread around the entire day care classroom last week, was "Again?!" I don't really want to hear that I'm not taking care of my kids because I can't wait more than a week for the postnasal drip cough to clear up before sending them back. This has been a BAD year and I don't think "parents not having enough individual responsibility" is the root issue here. Maybe we could set up a STRUCTURE where parents don't have to make bad choices.

Welcome to being a parent.

NP. You shouldn’t have had a kid if you were too stupid to know that colds spread around at daycare and school. It’s part of the package.

WeLcOmE tO bEiNg A pArEnT.

What a stupid way to try to rationalize being irresponsible.

I almost envy what a sheltered life you must have lead, to be so utterly divorced from the realities of being a working parent. Almost.

I envy what a sheltered life you must have lead to be so utterly divorced from the realities of parenting.

No, I live in the world, so I was well aware when I had children that they would occasionally bringing colds home from preschool, and that life would not need to grind to a halt when that happened. If you can’t handle other kids going to school with a runny nose, homeschool your kids.

If you can’t handle having to taking care of your sick child, you shouldn’t have any.
Look up parenting.

I’ll keep a kid home for actual illness, not a runny nose. Again, I’m glad you live the kind of life where you don’t have a job or any other responsibilities to consider. Sounds nice!

I’m glad you live in a world where you don’t have the responsibility of parenting with having children. Sounds nice!
Maybe those responsibilities are more important to you than your children.

Keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table are pretty important to me, yeah. I know you don’t understand how that whole working for money thingy works.

If you’re that close to losing your house and starving, get off of dcum.