Too sick to host play date?

[Anonymous]

My kid came home from school on 12/23 with a cold, and we still have the residual cough and sniffles. No fever or malaise, and if their was school this week, she'd be going. We have long standing plans to host a play date tomorrow. Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

No. It has been ten days.

[Anonymous]

As long as your kid doesn't have snot rolling down her face, it's fine.

[Anonymous]

I would just let them know and let it be the parent's decision. I would assume 99% of parents wouldn't care unless someone was medically fragile at home or something, but it's easier than having that member of the 1% glare at you as your kid coughs.

[Anonymous]

I'd probably just give the other family a heads-up and let them make the call. Some people are more paranoid than others.

I'm one of those people who is allergic to a lot of foliage, so I get a runny nose in fall and spring when I'm not sick. My nose also runs in cold weather, so 3 seasons a year, I am wandering around with a kleenex in every pocket. But not sick.

[Anonymous]

10 days post-onset of a standard cold with no fever? How is this even a question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10 days post-onset of a standard cold with no fever? How is this even a question.

Because I know how some parents can be around "germs".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 days post-onset of a standard cold with no fever? How is this even a question.

Because I know how some parents can be around "germs".

By the time you're in elementary school, the important "germs" are the stomach bug and strep. Probably lice, too, but that's not exactly a germ.

As long as your kid is healthy, who cares about a cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 days post-onset of a standard cold with no fever? How is this even a question.

Because I know how some parents can be around "germs".

Then feel free to warn them (though I don't think you have to in these circumstances -- half of DD's ECE class had a cold on any given winter day), but only a crazy parent would object absent a medically fragile kid, newborn or family cancer diagnosis or something (in which case, they should ask upfront).

[Anonymous]

Ask the other parents. I would not want my kid to go over to your house if there was a possibility you were sick. I catch everything and its really disruptive.

[Anonymous]

I would not care if I was the other family and in your position, it would never occur to me to question it with a lingering cough/sniffles.