Please stop taking your sick kids out!!

[Anonymous]

Wow, so many judgmental bitches on this thread, I don't even know where to start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister does this. Her kids are always sick. She says “if we stayed home when they’re sick, we’d never leave the house!”

Kids are 4 and 2, go to daycare full time, and I’ve never seen them without a crusty runny nose and horrible cough. She says they’re building a great immunity and doesn’t understand why I don’t want my son (18 months) exposer. She thinks it’s ridiculous that he’s never been sick.

Wait until your kid enters school and he'll be sick an entire year. Good luck with that.[/quote



Yeah, because we don't teach our kids to wash their hands and keep their hands off of their faces. /s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, so many judgmental bitches on this thread, I don't even know where to start.

Try with yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere now. Manners are a thing of the past. We hardly go out now because of the "anything goes and eff you if you don't like it" mentality. Parents letting their kids scream through a meal at a restaurant, talk through a performance, go without headphones in a closed shared space - there really seems to be no remedy for it except avoidance because even asking nicely for them to be quieter turns into an indignant confrontation. People don't care. Or at least enough don't to create an expectation of discomfort.

NP. It's true. Last week, I witnessed a 10 year old sneeze right into the hot bar at the Friendship Heights Whole Foods. The mother was nearby and didn't bat an eye. The other day, same place, a grown woman must have touched every single avocado on display. I am a city kid, grew up in a condo, and love DC but manners and consideration for others have deteriorated so much that a growing part of me just wants to move to a ranch on Montana and disconnect from civilization.

I’ll give you the first one, but the second? You know feeling the avocados is how you tell which ones or ripe or past ripeness, right? So many times, stores dump a bunch of overripe avocados out, that have to go straigh5 in the trash after cutting into them. Wash your fruit before you eat it - everyone should do this. Do you know how many things they have been in contact with before making it to a store display?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t know she is contagious. When I can either be judgy or kind, I pick kind. You should try it!

NO. I don't care if kid is contagious or not. If they are coughing and screaming, anybody with a functioning brain would keep their brats at home!

How do you know that they were coughing and screaming before they left home?
My cousin's son can go from well to sick in no time. We have had to cancel several visits within a couple of hours because the kid had a runny nose and started coughing the moorning of the day we are planning to visit.

If you lack empathy, why should others have any for you and your healthy kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is messed up that you parents who bring your disease vectors round the town justify it by claiming you're doing a service to others (strengthening immunity). Give me a fing break! Keep your feverish, snotty, coughing, puking rugrat at home for goodness sake!

It’s what parents of sick kids...aka kids who are in childcare and always sick...tell themselves.

My DD has been in daycare since she was 11 weeks old. Other than a bumpy first year (mostly due to recurrent ear infections), she's hardly ever ill, and she's 4 now. No, kids in childcare are NOT always sick. Stop with the subtle judgment there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere now. Manners are a thing of the past. We hardly go out now because of the "anything goes and eff you if you don't like it" mentality. Parents letting their kids scream through a meal at a restaurant, talk through a performance, go without headphones in a closed shared space - there really seems to be no remedy for it except avoidance because even asking nicely for them to be quieter turns into an indignant confrontation. People don't care. Or at least enough don't to create an expectation of discomfort.

NP. It's true. Last week, I witnessed a 10 year old sneeze right into the hot bar at the Friendship Heights Whole Foods. The mother was nearby and didn't bat an eye. The other day, same place, a grown woman must have touched every single avocado on display.[i][u] I am a city kid, grew up in a condo, and love DC but manners and consideration for others have deteriorated so much that a growing part of me just wants to move to a ranch on Montana and disconnect from civilization.

What's wrong with touching avacados? You don't eat the skin, you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t know she is contagious. When I can either be judgy or kind, I pick kind. You should try it!

NO. I don't care if kid is contagious or not. If they are coughing and screaming, anybody with a functioning brain would keep their brats at home!

How do you know that they were coughing and screaming before they left home?
My cousin's son can go from well to sick in no time. We have had to cancel several visits within a couple of hours because the kid had a runny nose and started coughing the moorning of the day we are planning to visit.

If you lack empathy, why should others have any for you and your healthy kids?

OMG because the onus is on the person who is affecting others with their behavior to have some consideration for those who are directly affected by those actions.

A healthy kid does not inconvenience anyone at all. A sick kid can very much affect those who may catch something from them.

How can you possibly say that we lack empathy just because we don’t appreciate being exposed to your contagious child? Empathy is the exact reason why we get so annoyed at the other parent because if we were sick then our empathy would cause us to stay home out of consideration for others. When you are treated with less respect than you routinely give to others then it is only natural to be annoyed. If you were empathetic though this would not need to be explained.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don’t know she is contagious. When I can either be judgy or kind, I pick kind. You should try it!

NO. I don't care if kid is contagious or not. If they are coughing and screaming, anybody with a functioning brain would keep their brats at home!

How do you know that they were coughing and screaming before they left home?
My cousin's son can go from well to sick in no time. We have had to cancel several visits within a couple of hours because the kid had a runny nose and started coughing the moorning of the day we are planning to visit.

If you lack empathy, why should others have any for you and your healthy kids?

OMG because the onus is on the person who is affecting others with their behavior to have some consideration for those who are directly affected by those actions.

A healthy kid does not inconvenience anyone at all. A sick kid can very much affect those who may catch something from them.

How can you possibly say that we lack empathy just because we don’t appreciate being exposed to your contagious child? Empathy is the exact reason why we get so annoyed at the other parent because if we were sick then our empathy would cause us to stay home out of consideration for others. When you are treated with less respect than you routinely give to others then it is only natural to be annoyed. If you were empathetic though this would not need to be explained.

Empathy is not the reason why you get annoyed. Entitlement is. You think you are entitled to empathy from others.

However you don't have any for others. When you have empathy for others, you try to put yourself in their shoes. You don't always assume the worst about people other than yourself. If you wouldn't take your sick kid to a restaurant, why would you assume someone you don't even know would? Has your kid never developed a cough or runny nose while you were out somewhere? Do you immediately leave and go home?

It's not always about you and your healthy kid or sick kid. Think about others sometime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's everywhere now. Manners are a thing of the past. We hardly go out now because of the "anything goes and eff you if you don't like it" mentality. Parents letting their kids scream through a meal at a restaurant, talk through a performance, go without headphones in a closed shared space - there really seems to be no remedy for it except avoidance because even asking nicely for them to be quieter turns into an indignant confrontation. People don't care. Or at least enough don't to create an expectation of discomfort.

NP. It's true. Last week, I witnessed a 10 year old sneeze right into the hot bar at the Friendship Heights Whole Foods. The mother was nearby and didn't bat an eye. The other day, same place, a grown woman must have touched every single avocado on display. I am a city kid, grew up in a condo, and love DC but manners and consideration for others have deteriorated so much that a growing part of me just wants to move to a ranch on Montana and disconnect from civilization.

Hot bars and buffets have been cesspools since the dawn of time. Manners have always been poor and carmudgeons have always been telling rugrats to keep off the lawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sister does this. Her kids are always sick. She says “if we stayed home when they’re sick, we’d never leave the house!”

Kids are 4 and 2, go to daycare full time, and I’ve never seen them without a crusty runny nose and horrible cough. She says they’re building a great immunity and doesn’t understand why I don’t want my son (18 months) exposer. She thinks it’s ridiculous that he’s never been sick.

Your sister's kids likely have allergies as opposed to being sick. My oldest always has a snotty nose, cough or sneeze. She was in daycare and I used to give the same explanation. Turns out she was very seldom sick, if she became sick it was because her allergies werent being treated and it evolved into a sinus infection with post nasal drip that causes a cough. The pediatrician put it this way: Colds dont last for months. Suggest to your sister that she take her kid to an allergist. Get rid of all the carpet in her house. Her kid peobably needs a daiky regimine. They don't do allergy shots under 5.

+1

[Anonymous]

I'll take it one step further and say stop taking your sick people (adults or kids) out.

No one wants to be coughed all over in this flu season just because - order some food in, people and get over your illnesses.

[Anonymous]

If Coronavirus gets here we are screwed. There will be plenty of moms giving kids Ibuprofen and shoving them to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD has Cough Variant Asthma. Often she has what I refer to 'a death hack' but she is not contagious.

I have the same. So. Many. Dirty. Looks.

[Anonymous]

You and your kid need to shut up and MYOB.