Sick Days For Siblings...

[MarinaVanessa]

I'm fine with a sibling of a sick child attending as long as they don't show signs for exclusion because personally I don't see the sense in keeping them both home if it's not guaranteed that everyone will get sick. I do really good at cleaning and disinfecting toys and surfaces so we don't typically have sickness spread here at daycare even if some DC kids do get sick and for the most part I don't have kids that mouth toys or put their fingers in their mouths etc.

I also added the policy (which I got the idea for from here) about requiring a child to stay home for 48 hours after symptoms subside if I have to send them home rather than only 24 hours if the parent keeps the child home. It really works. I only have a PT and a drop-in family that are siblings and both would rather keep both kids home if 1 is sick rather than risking that the well child become ill at DC. It's great .

[MrsB]

So those of you who do exclude for sibling illnesses, how do you mange the older sibs that are in school if you don't take SA kids normally?

What about if a parent is sick?

I don't have a sibling sickness clause as I personally see no point since most my parents are teachers and or nurses/hospital staff and lord knows the stuff they are exposed to on a daily basis so I think it would be impossible for me to know exactly where an illness started. School, the clinic, Wal-mart, grocery store, even daycare.

I am RARELY sick but I bet I can and could be a carrier of illnesses just from the places I go so for me, having a sibling sickness clause wouldn't work.

Also IME, I have had many many kids have a sick sibling and never get sick themseves. Not all kids are the same. My DD gets strep throat if you say the word, but my DS have never ever had it in all his 20 years of life so as a parent, I would have been mad if my provider had required my son to stay home every time my DD was sick.

I usually got my MIL to watch my DD when she was sick so there would be no way I would have asked her to care for both my kids when one wasn't even sick in the first place.

I'm kind of with BlackCat on this one. I have had parents who have kept their siblings home on their own accord when the other is sick and it hasn't seemed to stop the sickness from making its way to daycare.

I am of the opinion that I morally can not tell a parent they have to keep their child home if they are well enough to join us at daycare regardless of the sickness status of family members.

I dont keep all my own SA kids home from school when one of them is sick.

Though I still have to laugh at the parents that say well I am bringing sibling even though parent or child is home sick so they aren't suscepted to it. Hahah that make me laugh. ::::::