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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I don’t know who these parents are that have never sent a sick child to school.  And I don’t think it really has to do with working status although I am sure that influences your diagnosis. Have none of you had a child that woke up a little stuffed up, you sent them to school and they were coming down with the plague or something and you felt like the worst mother ever?  And so the next time you notice a slight sniffle, you keep your kid home and turns out she is bored by 930 and jumping off the walls. We all screw up diagnozing the seriousness of our kid’s illness when they wake up in the morning.

For me, I wanted my kids to learn that they needed to go to school every day and I didn’t want to make it easy for them to skip school. I have one that always thinks she is going to be able to make it through just fine and one that would give Ferris Bueller a run for his money. So basically, I can’t ask either of them. I have to make my best judgement and sometimes it’s wrong.

OP - you will figure it out. Honestly, once they are in grade school, more than the occasional sick day, you have to plan for weathe in Jan and Feb. [/quote]

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