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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is sending anyone with symptoms of anything home and requiring kids not return until they are symptom free. It sucks but I'm glad.
If it's allergies, then you should be able to get a doctor's note. Easy peasy.

I feel like by these standards, my snotty toddler will be excluded more often than not. At that point, why bother? More trouble than it’s worth.

Sounds good! It’s probably better to give up your spot.

Yup. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is sending anyone with symptoms of anything home and requiring kids not return until they are symptom free. It sucks but I'm glad.
If it's allergies, then you should be able to get a doctor's note. Easy peasy.

Same.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, temperature check for one thing. You seldom don't get fevers (even low grade ones) with allergies.

Snotty noses that are clear are usually just allergies.

Start your kid now with Claritan, Zyrtek, or your choice of OTC b/c they usually take about 2 weeks to kick-in and alleviate/eliminate the symptoms.

As for a common cold: you have a fever STAY HOME if it's not covid. That should be a given (even before this pandemic).

You can get a rapid covid test to prove your kid is covid-free and it's just a cold.

Hasn’t the rose garden event proven that a negative test isn’t “Covid free”? Come on people.

Also, it is basically impossible to find a kid COVID test, especially a rapid one.

This is my issue- our pediatrician’s office, who I generally love, did not want to test my kid for the sniffles. I ended up at pediatric urgent care, but only after a telegraphy appointment. We got the (negative) results in 72h, which I guess is pretty good considering some people end up waiting a week. But now I’m supposed to take off 3 days every time they get the sniffles? I can understand why many parents don’t bother. If there is any hope of getting in person school pediatric testing needs to get more accessible, easier, and faster.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, temperature check for one thing. You seldom don't get fevers (even low grade ones) with allergies.

Snotty noses that are clear are usually just allergies.

Start your kid now with Claritan, Zyrtek, or your choice of OTC b/c they usually take about 2 weeks to kick-in and alleviate/eliminate the symptoms.

As for a common cold: you have a fever STAY HOME if it's not covid. That should be a given (even before this pandemic).

You can get a rapid covid test to prove your kid is covid-free and it's just a cold.

Hasn’t the rose garden event proven that a negative test isn’t “Covid free”? Come on people.

Also, it is basically impossible to find a kid COVID test, especially a rapid one.

Anonymous wrote:Well, temperature check for one thing. You seldom don't get fevers (even low grade ones) with allergies.

Snotty noses that are clear are usually just allergies.

Start your kid now with Claritan, Zyrtek, or your choice of OTC b/c they usually take about 2 weeks to kick-in and alleviate/eliminate the symptoms.

As for a common cold: you have a fever STAY HOME if it's not covid. That should be a given (even before this pandemic).

You can get a rapid covid test to prove your kid is covid-free and it's just a cold.

Hasn’t the rose garden event proven that a negative test isn’t “Covid free”? Come on people.

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is sending anyone with symptoms of anything home and requiring kids not return until they are symptom free. It sucks but I'm glad.
If it's allergies, then you should be able to get a doctor's note. Easy peasy.

Same here. DD has been out Friday, Monday, today, and probably tomorrow with a cold. (Took her to pediatrician Friday and said no need for COVID test). Pre-COVID days she would have gone back today. It sucks, but I hope other parents take the same steps (doubt they will but here is hoping).

now if she gets as many colds as she did last year in her first daycare winter, she will essentially not be in daycare and we will need to figure something else out. I also think though that daycares may shut again in the winter if there is a wave of infections.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is sending anyone with symptoms of anything home and requiring kids not return until they are symptom free. It sucks but I'm glad.
If it's allergies, then you should be able to get a doctor's note. Easy peasy.

I feel like by these standards, my snotty toddler will be excluded more often than not. At that point, why bother? More trouble than it’s worth.

I'd raise bloody hell if they were going beyond what the "sick" criteria was as laid out in the enrollment agreement.

good luck w/that

And you know what? I would raise bloody if I saw a snotty toddler allowed to remain in class during a pandemic — AND I would notify the other parents as well as the health department. You don’t get to play your games around colds during a pandemic. Nobody else thinks it’s cute to give a toddler a bunch of Tylenol before drop-off so you can hide symptoms for a few hours.

Sounds like you shouldn't be bringing your kids to daycare with that attitude.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd raise bloody hell if they were going beyond what the "sick" criteria was as laid out in the enrollment agreement.

Seriously? Is that because there hasn't been any significant change to speak of in the health landscape as of late?

Absolutely. If they're going to pull a ridiculous switcheroo, then I get to unenroll without penalty.

Oh honey

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is sending anyone with symptoms of anything home and requiring kids not return until they are symptom free. It sucks but I'm glad.
If it's allergies, then you should be able to get a doctor's note. Easy peasy.

I feel like by these standards, my snotty toddler will be excluded more often than not. At that point, why bother? More trouble than it’s worth.

I'd raise bloody hell if they were going beyond what the "sick" criteria was as laid out in the enrollment agreement.

good luck w/that

And you know what? I would raise bloody if I saw a snotty toddler allowed to remain in class during a pandemic — AND I would notify the other parents as well as the health department. You don’t get to play your games around colds during a pandemic. Nobody else thinks it’s cute to give a toddler a bunch of Tylenol before drop-off so you can hide symptoms for a few hours.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is sending anyone with symptoms of anything home and requiring kids not return until they are symptom free. It sucks but I'm glad.
If it's allergies, then you should be able to get a doctor's note. Easy peasy.

I feel like by these standards, my snotty toddler will be excluded more often than not. At that point, why bother? More trouble than it’s worth.

Sounds good! It’s probably better to give up your spot.

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is sending anyone with symptoms of anything home and requiring kids not return until they are symptom free. It sucks but I'm glad.
If it's allergies, then you should be able to get a doctor's note. Easy peasy.

Yes, this. I work at a program in DC. Any single symptom is cause to stay home. If the symptoms are part of an ongoing known condition, like allergies or asthma, then the family gets a doctor's note, and the symptoms specified by the doctor as ongoing (and therefore not indicative of a new iliness like COVID) are allowed.

I know that this sucks. But we have to screen for COVID, and play it safe. many kids will be staying home with the sniffles and need a doctor's visit/covid test to return. That is child care in a pandemic for you.

the fact that you lump together “colds and allergies” shows you have the exact attitude that is going to make this all harder. Until proven otherwise, a “cold” is presumed to be COVID. “allergies” too unless you really, honestly know they are seasonal allegies.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our daycare is sending anyone with symptoms of anything home and requiring kids not return until they are symptom free. It sucks but I'm glad.
If it's allergies, then you should be able to get a doctor's note. Easy peasy.

I feel like by these standards, my snotty toddler will be excluded more often than not. At that point, why bother? More trouble than it’s worth.

I'd raise bloody hell if they were going beyond what the "sick" criteria was as laid out in the enrollment agreement.

good luck w/that

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd raise bloody hell if they were going beyond what the "sick" criteria was as laid out in the enrollment agreement.

Seriously? Is that because there hasn't been any significant change to speak of in the health landscape as of late?

Absolutely. If they're going to pull a ridiculous switcheroo, then I get to unenroll without penalty.

Anonymous wrote:I'd raise bloody hell if they were going beyond what the "sick" criteria was as laid out in the enrollment agreement.

Seriously? Is that because there hasn't been any significant change to speak of in the health landscape as of late?