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Here's one-- Don't tylenol up your sick kid and then send them to school or daycare. I understand that you have to work, but there are places that specifically care for sick children, sending them to school and daycare just propagates the illness, and makes healthy children sick.
Well now that's just SILLY Jojo. You might as well get a head start on sending your kids to daycare sick. Once they head to public school, you're going to have to. If they miss too many days, and you don't have the Dr's. note to back you up (depending on where you live), you are either going to end up in court with your child (for truancy) or your child will not be passed on to the next grade! Now mind you, this does not apply to all states/counties/districts, but it certainly applies to mine.
Well now that's just SILLY Jojo. You might as well get a head start on sending your kids to daycare sick. Once they head to public school, you're going to have to. If they miss too many days, and you don't have the Dr's. note to back you up (depending on where you live), you are either going to end up in court with your child (for truancy) or your child will not be passed on to the next grade! Now mind you, this does not apply to all states/counties/districts, but it certainly applies to mine.
A vomiting, diarrhea ridden child really should not be in school. I thought that was the type of sickness jojo was referencing.
A vomiting, diarrhea ridden child really should not be in school. I thought that was the type of sickness jojo was referencing.
Yep, my son was puking this morning, someone sent their kid to school sick yesterday. Kid puked all over, the parent took over an hour to come get them.
I have a lot more parenting mileage on me, and have had the advantage of knowing I've already raised some stellar citizens. So I have the luxury of being pretty secure in the knowledge that I can be a parent without screwing it up too badly. It makes it a lot easier to blow off critics.
Me, too. I used to get angry when some mother of a 4 year old here on CD told me my kids would end up as some sort of failures b/c of some of my parenting opinions. So many times I've said, "they're grown, they're doing fine, self supporting, blah, blah". Now it doesn't bother me as much, I think it's kind of funny that people who haven't passed down that part of the trail have such definite ideas about such issues as teen drinking, sex, driving, etc.
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Originally Posted by jojo61397
Here's one-- Don't tylenol up your sick kid and then send them to school or daycare. I understand that you have to work, but there are places that specifically care for sick children, sending them to school and daycare just propagates the illness, and makes healthy children sick.
Agreed. It's not too good for the staff of the day care, either. DD the Younger used to work at a daycare, and one of the reasons she quit was she was always (and that's not much of an exaggeration) sick b/c she'd been around sick kids. Her daycare had a policy of not giving out sick time too liberally; one time she went to work and threw up on someone and then got sent home with sick pay. But if you just called in, they wouldn't give you the sick time w/o a dr's note.
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A couple of other thoughts:
Agree with the "never say never". I always thought parents who bought their kids cars were overindulgent twits. . . .until my oldest learned how to drive. At the time she got her permit, we had three cars, were planning to sell one. We ended up keeping it; she drove it to school and her activities. It saved my sanity. When she took "her" car to college and DD the Younger got her license, DH bought himself a new car and "gave" her his. Again, kept us out of the mental hospital.
Do not base your parenting (too much anyway) on trying to do things differently from your parents. Understand your parents did the best they could under the circumstances. (I realize there are some exceptions, but I think these are few.) Don't say "My mom did "X", so I'm not going to do that to MY kids". Even if you did have a miserable childhood with awful parents, let it go. One of my neighbors wanted to teach her kids to be "assertive" b/c she felt she was brought up with a lack of assertiveness training. Her kids wer obnoxious when they were too little to handle so much assertiveness. Just one example.
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Once they head to public school, you're going to have to. If they miss too many days, and you don't have the Dr's. note to back you up (depending on where you live), you are either going to end up in court with your child (for truancy) or your child will not be passed on to the next grade! 
Now mind you, this does not apply to all states/counties/districts, but it certainly applies to mine. 
