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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I have shockingly healthy kids, but my youngest is 2 and maybe missed 3 days in 2 years due to sickness. Her daycare also didn’t close for covid. My oldest is 4 and maybe missed a week as a baby/toddler (HFM and a nasty cold) but hasn’t missed any in the last year. It’s not necessarily all doom and gloom. In fact neither child has ever had an antibiotic. [/quote]

My kid was only out maybe 3 days the first year.  He never ran a fever, the absence was for a mild diarrhea.  So the whole "all daycare kids are constantly sick" trope wasn't my experience.

I will say some of the mild runny noses he had might be excluding now with COVID protocols.[/quote]

I posted upthread about 6-8 colds stats.  To be clear, my kid has never had a fever or needed a doctor visit or antibiotics since starting daycare.  But COVID daycare rules say that congestion is an exclusionary symptom right now, so every mild runny nose (every two months for us) means I have to figure out how to work with an energetic toddler at home.  I'm burning all my PTO just for that.

Of course, different kids have different experiences, so maybe other kids are sicker, but even very healthy children are out a lot these days.[/quote]

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