How do parents feel about everyday colds?

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

No they aren't. Crummy lazy parents like you just don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t send my kid to school sick and they don’t have play dates sick. When they are improving and return to school, if there was a placate scheduled, I’d give the parents a heads up that they’ve been under the weather, are well enough to return to school but may still have sniffles or lingering cough, and I understand if they don’t want to play or I suggest rescheduling so they’re not in each other’s faces.

Kids have to learn and go to school. They don’t need to have play dates.

Sick kids are miserable and aren't learning anything in school. Those same sick kids then make other kids sick, who also aren't going to learn. You just don't feel like dealing with a sick kid.

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Please give me the option to cancel! We don’t want your cold.

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Anonymous wrote:If kid has cold and it's not covid and they feel ok (no fever and mild symptoms that aren't impacting energy level), they are going to school in my house.

If kid has cold and it's not covid and we have a play date planned, I contact the other family and disclose. I did this pre-covid too so not a new thing. Others seem to do the same. Once I have the information, we never cancel plans over colds and most people I interact with don't either. But YMMV. DCUM has taught me there are people who think no one should ever leave their home with any symptom of any kind.

According to DCUM, no one the family should socialize if anyone in the household is sick. I was told if I ever did this, even pre-covid, that I’m a sociopath.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

No they aren't. Crummy lazy parents like you just don't care.

What school do your kids attend? Fever free for 24 hours has been the rule everywhere. My kids have already had 3 colds and strep between the 2 of them this year. You know how many times I, the adult, got sick from them? Zero. Because I built a functioning immune system by catching colds as a child. The people who want their kids in a bubble are not doing them any favors.

[Anonymous]

Kids are little germ factories and its just part of the process. Disclose facts to your Childs friends parent and they can decide. If they say no don't take it offensively.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

No they aren't. Crummy lazy parents like you just don't care.

I work in the clinic at our public ES and they absolutely are allowed and encouraged to attend school with minor cold symptoms. We call parents for fevers and stomach issues and that’s it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

No they aren't. Crummy lazy parents like you just don't care.

Like I said, stay mad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

No they aren't. Crummy lazy parents like you just don't care.

I work in the clinic at our public ES and they absolutely are allowed and encouraged to attend school with minor cold symptoms. We call parents for fevers and stomach issues and that’s it.

All of you "don't send your kids to school unless they are 100% symptom free" people don't understand what the long-term effects would be if your logic applied to all kids. Absenteeism would soar through the roof, kids would miss out on crucial learning, and this would in fact impact your own perfect child's experience because the teacher would need to go slower to catch kids up. I know you're going to respond to me "oh parents should continue teaching their kids at home so they don't fall behind." That only will happen if there is a SAH parent - one who doesn't have other kids at home to watch, at that - or a parent with an extremely flexible job. That isn't the norm at all. I know COVID has traumatized us all a bit but colds and such are part of life, deal with it.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

No they aren't. Crummy lazy parents like you just don't care.

I work in the clinic at our public ES and they absolutely are allowed and encouraged to attend school with minor cold symptoms. We call parents for fevers and stomach issues and that’s it.

All of you "don't send your kids to school unless they are 100% symptom free" people don't understand what the long-term effects would be if your logic applied to all kids. Absenteeism would soar through the roof, kids would miss out on crucial learning, and this would in fact impact your own perfect child's experience because the teacher would need to go slower to catch kids up. I know you're going to respond to me "oh parents should continue teaching their kids at home so they don't fall behind." That only will happen if there is a SAH parent - one who doesn't have other kids at home to watch, at that - or a parent with an extremely flexible job. That isn't the norm at all. I know COVID has traumatized us all a bit but colds and such are part of life, deal with it.

Well put. Having a cold is not a "sickness" we need to coddle. It can be uncomfortable but it's not something that needs to halt normal activities prophylactically! Obviously if you can't get out of bed with whatever cold you have then you should try to rest, but for most of us, it's just an annoying thing to endure.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

No they aren't. Crummy lazy parents like you just don't care.

I work in the clinic at our public ES and they absolutely are allowed and encouraged to attend school with minor cold symptoms. We call parents for fevers and stomach issues and that’s it.

All of you "don't send your kids to school unless they are 100% symptom free" people don't understand what the long-term effects would be if your logic applied to all kids. Absenteeism would soar through the roof, kids would miss out on crucial learning, and this would in fact impact your own perfect child's experience because the teacher would need to go slower to catch kids up. I know you're going to respond to me "oh parents should continue teaching their kids at home so they don't fall behind." That only will happen if there is a SAH parent - one who doesn't have other kids at home to watch, at that - or a parent with an extremely flexible job. That isn't the norm at all. I know COVID has traumatized us all a bit but colds and such are part of life, deal with it.

+1. Fwiw, my mom was a SAHM and sent us mildly ill. School is important and colds are part of life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If kid has cold and it's not covid and they feel ok (no fever and mild symptoms that aren't impacting energy level), they are going to school in my house.

If kid has cold and it's not covid and we have a play date planned, I contact the other family and disclose. I did this pre-covid too so not a new thing. Others seem to do the same. Once I have the information, we never cancel plans over colds and most people I interact with don't either. But YMMV. DCUM has taught me there are people who think no one should ever leave their home with any symptom of any kind.

According to DCUM, no one the family should socialize if anyone in the household is sick. I was told if I ever did this, even pre-covid, that I’m a sociopath.

It just doesn't match up with normal people in the real world. Some people clearly have a massive phobia of being ill. I get it. It's not fun and it's often a logistical pain. But it's part of life.

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Anonymous wrote:My kindergartener has her second cold since school started. She had one early September. I kept her home for a day and then sent her to school with a little cough. A month later, she has another cold. I tested her for Covid both times. I considered keeping her home but I sent her to school. I also have two older kids and they basically had a cold on/off all winter when they were in preschool and early elementary.

We are invited to a play date next week at a home and I also invited someone over for a play date but have not yet confirmed since my daughter has a cold.

Would you cancel if other child had a cold?

The kids are all in the same class so they already see one another at school.

You’re so worried about a playdate, yet you send your kid to school like that every single day. I can tell you what these kids do all day - cough all over other kids and teachers, pick their noses constantly and wipe it on everything around them, sniffle and sniffle without stopping, wipe their noses with hands every minute. Once in a while they get a tissue when a teacher prompts them. So why are you worried about your little play date if you don’t mind sending your kid to school like this?

Guessing f-ing what I am a traveler from 2020 (not that poster) and from 2013 and from 2022 and you’re all trash for sending snotty disgusting kids to school. I have a preschooler and older and they don’t go to school with encrusted disgusting germ ridden waterfalls of snot. Thanks for continually keeping my kid out with your disgusting germs.

Trash, or people who don't have round-the-clock nannies or stay-at-home incomes?

I don't say this often but check your privilege

DP, but I’d have to say check your privilege to the person who feels entitled to send their kids out in public sick because of your personal childcare setup, or lack thereof. SMH.

Amen. Let's sacrifice the health of several other families because you can't figure out child care for yours.

Schools have rules for a reason, and colds are allowed. Stay mad.

No they aren't. Crummy lazy parents like you just don't care.

I work in the clinic at our public ES and they absolutely are allowed and encouraged to attend school with minor cold symptoms. We call parents for fevers and stomach issues and that’s it.

All of you "don't send your kids to school unless they are 100% symptom free" people don't understand what the long-term effects would be if your logic applied to all kids. Absenteeism would soar through the roof, kids would miss out on crucial learning, and this would in fact impact your own perfect child's experience because the teacher would need to go slower to catch kids up. I know you're going to respond to me "oh parents should continue teaching their kids at home so they don't fall behind." That only will happen if there is a SAH parent - one who doesn't have other kids at home to watch, at that - or a parent with an extremely flexible job. That isn't the norm at all. I know COVID has traumatized us all a bit but colds and such are part of life, deal with it.

+1. Fwiw, my mom was a SAHM and sent us mildly ill. School is important and colds are part of life.

NP. Truly.

And colds linger, often for literally weeks. Obviously, I'm not keeping my kids home for a full week, or multiple weeks, because they have a mild runny nose and a mild intermittent irritation cough. Nor is that their schools' policy.

It really is just part of life.

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I would ask the host. Some won't care, but others will. It's not just about covid. The flu (which often looks just like a cold in kids) can kill people too, and you don't know who the host might have living there or be in contact with that might be vulnerable. I ended up in the hospital myself about 10 years ago, after an ill-fated playdate where the other kid had a "little cold" (it was the flu).