Is is not that serious people. Teachers took a snow day too.

If you let your kids miss a day every now and then it teaches them that, yes they can have fun but there is a price to pay for it. They will have work to make up. My DD has been allowed to miss 1 or 2 days a year and like PPs dd she would never think of skipping school. She works hard just like I do, and she deserves a little break now and then. As long as she makes up her work and her grades don't suffer.

Anonymous wrote:The problem is this: studies show that absenteeism can lead to truancy. Mommy's "it's okay to take then day off for sledding" will become your middle/high schoolers "it's okay to go shopping for new sneakers" or "it's okay to hang out with my new girlfriend". Trust me, for your middle/high schooler to be (soon enough!), the new sneakers and the girlfriend will be at least as important as the snow to your elementary schooler. Except, they'll likely be beyond your control at that point. What will be with them, however, are the values you instilled in them early on, when they did listen.

Please stop!

I took my child out of school for over a week in elementary school to go on a once-in-a-lifetime trip far, far away.

In middle school we had a Mommy and Me Day.

She's in high school now and would NEVER think of missing school unless it was absolutely necessary. She's a college-bound junior who never lost sight of the fact that education is very important. She doesn't skip (school has an automated system that would call my cell phone to let me know of an absence AND attendance is on every report card) for the hell of it.

Some of you are really REACHING with these notions that a rare day at home with Mom or Dad (which is different from a day off to just lounge around doing nothing) =issues with absenteeism in adulthood.

PS: We took a Mommy and Me day or two in high school as well.

However, to each his own.

I think kids will turn out fine whether they're able to take a rare (the key word here) pseudo-snow day or not.

I disagree that by occassionally keeping a child home for a glorious day of sledding, an extra day of an educational vacation, or even the first glorious day of spring that you're teaching them "that activities are more important than meeting commitments." I think you're teaching them to seize the day, enjoy the God-given gifts of nature's beauty, and that family and making time for renewal sometimes outweighs school. A friend of my husband's just died (too young) this morning. I wonder which choice she would regret more?

Anonymous wrote:Holy cow PP (I was raised in the Midwest too !! WE are douche bags? Perhaps you should re-read your judgemental, extremely angry, and chip-on-your-shoulder post. In MY MidWestern town people were generally really friendly. Give me a parent who keeps their child home on rare occasions over one as nasty as you ANY day!

Okay. You've clearly bought into the elitist entitled BS here. I don't have to be "friendly" about that.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever. You guys keep telling yourselves that teaching your kids that the rules don't apply to them is okay. I'll keep on thinking you are shitty parents. Everyone will be happy.

Good lord I'm so glad you aren't my mommy.

Glad I'm not your mommy too.