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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have the work flex to work from home when my kid is so sick. If my kid is active with no fever/no pain/loss of appetite with just some coughing, sneezing or runny nose, I send them to school. If they keep coughing, I take them to sed doctor and stay home till feeling a bit better. Normally, pediatrician says no medication and let it run the course. Maybe other parents do not or cannot get excused from work or get sick days from work. [/quote]

You should not have had kids

Why in the world do you think it is ok to infect others?

I don't care that you have to "work" don't have kids if you can not afford to keep them home when they are not feeling well.

As a working parent as well I absolutely understand you are a terrible parent.[/quote]

NP.  Some kids can have the sniffles all winter.  I’m not keeping my kid out of school or taking time off from work every time kid doesn’t feel 100%.  Mild colds are easily pushed through.

Maybe your little snowflakes need to toughen up.[/quote]

DP and I totally agree -- the PP's approach sounds exactly right to me.

When I was a younger parent (and this was right after schools reopened post-Covid) I was ultra cautious and would keep my kid home at the tiniest sign of illness. Would try to keep her home until cold symptoms were totally gone, that kind of thing.

Finally a fellow parent in K who has older kids told me it's just not realistic -- you wind up keeping your kid home for weeks for a mild virus that most of the class has already had anyway, because they have a lingering cough or something. Obviously anything more than a cough or some sniffles and you keep them home, but the idea that your kids are never going to have a runny nose or a cough at school is really unrealistic. It's okay.

I am convinced the only parents who can afford to be this militant about it have really young kids and just don't realize. Keep them home for fevers, obviously any vomiting, and anything that is going to make them tired or unable to pay attention or participate fully in school. But runny noses and coughs are fine. That's just life.[/quote]

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