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I would not leave a 10 year old home with a sick child no matter what she/he was used to doing. What if the baby's fever spiked? I hope she is not giving him medicine, cooking or anything. Goodness, a million things could happen with those two alone and the mom would never know until it was too late. This situation is very sad to me.Comment
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I thought it was a law that everyone gets at least 6 weeks maternity leave regardless. But I don't know for sure...
This is the same dcm that thinks its cute that dcb climbs up on the stove and eats whatever's cooking!! It's crazy!Comment
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My neighbors have a five and seven year old. The dad is a sheriff.
When one of them is sick and can't go to school, they leave them both home together all day long.
I'm assuming they've been doing this all year, because in October the youngest one was out playing alone before the bus had dropped the other ones off, and I asked him why he was home already, he said "Dylan is sick today". But, I didn't find out til later that they had been home alone all day long.
Yet these same kids can't even play together for 20 minutes without fighting.Comment
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That's scary! I have an 8 yo dd and she is awesome and one of the smartest kids I've ever met... But I would never trust her with taking care of my 2yo dd home alone for 10 hours!! Insane! Kids don't have common sense yet at that age IMO! They are still learning! What if there was a fire or an emergency? Would they know what to do?! We always hope our kids would do the right thing, but the truth is in a panic they probably wouldnt
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Sure, you can take 6 weeks maternity leave (I think it's actually up to 12), but that doesn't mean you will get paid for it. I personally took 8 weeks but was only paid for the 2 weeks I had for vacation time. Chances are, she's talking about what she would get paid for.Comment
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It is up to your obgyn here in az!!! If on your 6 weeks check up he considers your are not ready to go back to work he can stand your legal maternity leave and your employer must respect that, but only if it's medically necessary!!!Comment
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I would assume (but can't say for sure) that if your doctor doesn't approve you to go back to work, then you can't go.
I guess I was just trying to clarify that there is no law that says any employee is absolutely guaranteed to receive maternity leave.
As far as taking an baby that young, I got "special permission" from my licensor to take this infant as the mom was a single mom with no family or friends in the area to help her out.
ITA with you on the maternity leave. And even if they get the leave most of the time or at least at most places I ever worked it was all unpaid. I worked at a small public library & they were very lenient with what I took off for all of my leaves (I took 8 weeks with #1, 12 weeks with #2 & 15 weeks with #3) BUT it was all unpaid. Maybe the mom would only get 1 week of paid time off & feels she can't stay home unpaid. Weird - why have kids like the original poster said!
Anyway, I agree it is very wrong to leave the sick child home with a 10-year old who should be in school!
BTW I have a responsible 10-year-old boy & I would never leave him in charge of a sibling, maybe when he is 13 for a short errand, but never all day to care for a sickie!
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So i decied to respond to the leave the 10 YO home to take care of a sick sibling. I know a sigle mother that did this all the time she had 4 children and
would keep the oldest home any time one of the younger 3 was sick. When the older child was in the 5th grade she got a letter from the school saying
that the child had missed soo many days from being "sick" (mom would call and tell the school the oldest child was sick also) that he would need a
doctors note everytime he need to be out the rest of the year. (this was about thanksgiving) She laugphed at the letter and the next time she called
the child in sick, CPS showed up at her door that day tp do a well check because if a child is sick that much then something is wrong. Short version of
the story the CPS almost took her ckids from her.Comment
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I am not sure what the law is where I am on the minimum age for a child to watch another child (I just learned there is not a minimum age to leave a child home for a short time), but I would never have trusted my boys to watch thier sister when they were only 10 yo. And I would definitely not have my 10 yo daughter watch younger children. That is too much responsibility, imo. She has just recently matured where I can even consider leaving her for a few minutes. Possibly, I would let my 10 yo stay home while I do a super quick errand...but even that makes me nervous. My oldest was about 12 yo before I would have him watch my daughter who was 3 yo at the time for an hour or less. But never when she was sick and needed extra care. To me, that is a parent's responsibility, not an older child's.Comment
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