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To tell dc parents with the holidays coming up soon that if their children get sick (1dcb is already sneezing) that if any kids come with bad colds (green mucus) that they will need to keep them home or find alternate care? These same kids get sick a lot and pass it through my home, my kids, and other dcks too. Last year they gave all of us the flu the week before Christmas and we want to avoid that and keep everyone healthy this year.
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I like blackcat's illness policy for just this reason. If they keep them home it is 24 hours sickness free. If you send them home it is 48. I just updated my policy to this last month, and lowered the fever cut off to 100.4 (temporal artery/forehead) AND termed my family who kept bringing their children sick. It took a couple of weeks, but sicknesses have stopped doing rounds happyfaceComment
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Thanks I'm glad its a reasonable policy to make them follow. Here's hoping everyone has a healthy Christmas this year.Comment
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I think it's absurd that we have to tell parents to keep their sick child home to begin with! All growing up whenever I was sick I was home in my own bed (occationally my mom's bed for extra comfort
) and my mom or a Grandparent stayed home with me.
If your illness policy doesn't stipulate green mucas or bad colds I would change it and hand it out asap.Comment
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I think a lot of things we have to tell the parents are absurd! Like wearing appropriate outdoor wear. It's in my contract, I sent out a notice 2 months ago, and a month ago, told everyone verbally, I sent out the weather advisory chart so they would know what temps we go out during,and made a chart showing what outdoor clothing is appropriate for what weather, and today I posted another notice on the FB page!
Out of our 5 children here today only 2 came with appropriate outdoor wear- 2 didn't have hats, 1 didn't have a hat OR gloves.
Seriously why wouldn't you send your child with gloves and a hat when it is 19 degrees?Comment
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I think a lot of things we have to tell the parents are absurd! Like wearing appropriate outdoor wear. It's in my contract, I sent out a notice 2 months ago, and a month ago, told everyone verbally, I sent out the weather advisory chart so they would know what temps we go out during,and made a chart showing what outdoor clothing is appropriate for what weather, and today I posted another notice on the FB page!
Out of our 5 children here today only 2 came with appropriate outdoor wear- 2 didn't have hats, 1 didn't have a hat OR gloves.
Seriously why wouldn't you send your child with gloves and a hat when it is 19 degrees?
I think its absurd too that we have to remind parents about our sick policies. I think parents don't want to take time off of work to take care of their child if they are sick and bring them to us and many of them will not even tell you that their child isn't feeling good, so we will take them.
Then after the parents leave, we can tell that the child is not feeling well.
Also, do parents even listen to the weather to know what it is supposed to be outside?? I have had to tell parents that oh, tomorrow it is going to be really cold, so could you dress them in warm clothes please. Their reaction is, oh, I did not know what the weather will be tomorrow. Do parents not pay attention to news or weather these days!
I have also had parents bring their child, in the middle of the cold winter, with no jacket on, and I say where is his jacket, and they say, well, we have a heated garage,warm the car up and run into your house, so we didn't put his jacket on. What!!!! And parents wonder why their child gets a cold!!!!!
Sometimes I think that parents are just in too much of a rush in the mornings and just grab the kids,get them into the car and go.OR if their child gives them a hassle about getting their jackets on, just don't want to argue and just wimp out and just give in and go,don't want to bother with making the child put the jacket on.Comment
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Yep! Just recently I had a dcm ask me if dcg could come back to dc since she took her to the dr and the dr said it was just "a really yucky stomach virus". Umm no, that would the exactly the type of thing that you WOULDN"T want to spread around!
As for my last post about outside- I posted on my parent FB page that every day this week would be very cold, but not cold enough that we wont go out, so every child needs to bring a warm coat, gloves and a hat to dc every day this week. All the parents who sent their children inappropriately dressed "liked" the post. Does everyone have winter gear today? Nope- dcg who had gloves yesterday has a lighter coat than yesterday w/ no gloves or hat. Dcb who had either still has neither, and dcg who just had gloves again just has gloves, no hat
I give up. THIS is the exact type of thing that causes provider burn out!Comment
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Cool! 
Providers usually don't see the benefit of the 24/48 hour rule until they actually implement it for a few weeks.
It really does work.
I haven't had a sick kid dropped off at DCK for a really long time now and I rarely have kids out sick because the passing back and forth of common colds, etc has virtually been eliminated all together.
It was actually CatHerder's rule. I just stole it from her and openly praise the heck out of it!
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For us I think it was more of the terming of the family who kept bringing their child sick. The 24/48 will help keep us sickness free though Cool!
Providers usually don't see the benefit of the 24/48 hour rule until they actually implement it for a few weeks.
It really does work.
I haven't had a sick kid dropped off at DCK for a really long time now and I rarely have kids out sick because the passing back and forth of common colds, etc has virtually been eliminated all together.
It was actually CatHerder's rule. I just stole it from her and openly praise the heck out of it!
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by the way the Dr says green mucus means the child is at the END of the cold it is old snot. UNLESS it has been over 2 weeks then it could be a sign of infection but not contagious to other people the cold was though
As far as passing it on clear snot has just as many germs.
I would remind parents not to attend with fever, rash, pink eye, vomiting loose stools
Plus every child and adult should wash hand or use sanitizer when they enter and sanitize the door knob frequentlyIt:
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