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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two earner households. Lack of workplace flexibility.

Plus, not to be heartless towards your child, but typical colds don’t typically affect other people in significant ways. I’m not staying home for a cold and neither will my kids. Fever - yes. Runny nose - no. [/quote]

This. Keeping children home with a runny nose and no fever is a vestige of the bygone era when June Cleaver was always home with the children while her husband went off to work.[/quote]

I have a friend whose child is so frail that she could die from a cold. And kids really do die from the flu because some parents send their kids to school sick.

I agree that sometimes it's not feasible for parents to keep their children home when they're sick, but for a lot of us it's fine, especially for older kids who don't need looking after. If we have a greater tolerance for missing school, it will save lives. I'm a stay at home mom and[b] I hate the feeling of guilt I get for keeping my kid home from school when they're not feeling well.[/b] And I would love to avoid the angst in deciding if I should send them or not. [b]It's like to be a good parent you need to send your kid to school all the time, [/b]and I would love it if that weren't the case. [/quote]

I have no idea what you are talking about.  I WOH (WFH now), for whatever that's worth, and I feel no guilt whatsoever keeping my kid home when she's actually sick.  Zero.  But I also don't keep her home for the sniffles.  I give her decongestant so she's not dripping snot all over everything at school and send her out the door.  But if she's actually sick: fever, lethargy, etc., I keep her home.   [/quote]

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