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[quote=Anonymous]It's weird to argue that parents don't understand what it's like to be in charge of small children. I... have kids. Yes I have had a 3 year old with a cold randomly put her hand in my mouth. Yes, I have been handed any number of randomly wet items and been unsure why they were wet or where they had come from. I've been sneezed on, peed on, vomited on. I've cleaned poop out of underwear and carpets and the drain in the bathtub. I'm a mom. This is how kids are.

And, it stands to reason, I don't want my kid getting sick at school or daycare because, as the main person cleaning up after their bodily fluid, I'm going to get it. So of course I think parents should keep their kids home when sick, and I do. BUT I'm also aware that they don't always, and that germs spread even when parents keep the very sick kids home, and that inevitably my kid will get sick, and inevitably I will get sick too. It is what it is.

It's just strange to argue that the parents of your preschoolers don't know what it's like to work with preschoolers or to act like we are selfishly sending our sick kids to you so that we can go to more fun things. They are our kids. We know what is up.[/quote]

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