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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This has been our last couple of weeks:

12/09 2yo positive for Flu A
12/13 4yo positive for Flu A
12/29 DH gets stomach bug
1/1 4yo gets stomach bug
1/2 2yo gets stomach bug
1/7 2yo tests positive for Flu B[/quote]

I went 20 years without a sick day from work or taking off to watch a sick kid. My mother raised 4 kids and I recall she took off two hours once and was max at me. My wife’s mom had three kids and never took any time off.

Kids today need to toughen up. Heck at 5 I already had a job. I think at 4 I was shaving already. [/quote]

I assume this is hyberbole. But when I was a kid, if we were sick, my mom (a teacher at my school) either left us home alone from the age of 8, or brought us in to  school where we spent the day sleeping/hanging out in the "ladies lounge" that was a large bathroom with a couch, that only the female teachers could use. She would check in on us at lunch and tell us to go find the nurse if we felt super sick. She had no sick leave. When she herself got very sick one year, for several months, she had to take unpaid leave. The school told her they were being generous in letting her keep her job. And they weren't kidding. A teacher of mine got fired for missing too much time in her first year of work.

Fortunately my sister and I were usually very healthy but I have clear memories of spending a day at home by myself at 8, and she'd call once or twice to check up on me; and memories of snoozing on the couch in the ladies lounge at 6 or 7, and all the teachers coming in to use the bathroom would say "hi" and go about their business.

You can't do this now. Working from home with a sick kid is much better - if you can work, at least. Harder with a small child or a very sick child, obviously.
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