Home 2 Days When Sick

[daycare]

this is what I was wondering too. I have kids that I have taken in that seem great, then 2-3 hours later, I discover fever....

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

this is what I was wondering too. I have kids that I have taken in that seem great, then 2-3 hours later, I discover fever....

This is my issue and it happens often (or, it used to with most families and now it seems to have stopped except for this family).

[Blackcat31]

I am not interested in proving whether a family lied or not.

It takes care of itself with the 24/48 hour rule.

The parents know how I feel about medicating to mask a fever or illness. If they want to risk it....they are welcome to.

If their kid gets sick here, I simply send them home for two days verses the one day that would have been required if they had just stayed home in the first place.

If they manage to pull one over on me....good on them, but I am also willing to bet that families willing to do that are PITA's in other areas too so I am usually in my toes with them already.

Plus most kids will happily share if they had meds or not if you ask them.

[TwinKristi]

My personal opinion is you're always going to have some parents who are going to complain and gripe no matter what, unless you bend over backwards to please them and then they'll keep raising the bar to meet their happiness.

I learned quickly with a previous family (despite warnings) that being "friends" with clients doesn't work out well. You start getting resentful of their requests and eventually their demands. The get more and more... I only had 1 other child beside my own while waiting for my license and then when waiting for more clients to enroll. Well she got used to being spoiled. If he was sick and my DS was sick (granted it wasn't too much work or too sick) I allowed him to stay since he already got everyone sick and I felt bad taking her money and not working. Well eventually that didn't fly and of course mom was kinda annoyed that I would no longer take her increasingly sick child. When I had other children enroll I had to take them into consideration as well. He spread the flu around our home twice, multiple viruses... I sent him home with pink eye, mouth sore, vomiting, high fevers... I even took him to the dr with my son and had to have him treated with heavy duty IM antibiotic shots, etc. because he was HORRIBLY sick, it was crazy! Looking back I can't believe I did as much as I did. It was a learning experience for sure. I haven't had ANY sickness since he's left 3 mos ago aside from minor sniffles for a couple days. I have 3 other kids here and no sickies at all! My older boys were sick but they stayed in their room away from everyone else and no one got sick. It's that easy. Keep the illness away and kids stay healthy. It's inevitable that someone will get sick, but parents need to keep them home! I will never allow someone to run my daycare again, I will never allow someone to guilt me into taking their sick child. What may cost them 1 sick or unpaid day will cost me and other parents multiple sick or unpaid days. It's just not fair.

[daycare]

This is my issue and it happens often (or, it used to with most families and now it seems to have stopped except for this family).

I am seriously thinking about adapting this rule come fall when I re-do my policies again.

I am so tired of the illness running through my daycare. I have kids that always have ALLERGIES and then next you know all of the other kids caught their allergies too.

I think that I have been trying to be flexible with this, we do all live near farms that do cause a lot of allergy grief for even my own family.

The bad part is that without a doctor actually taking test, they don't know either if is a virus or allergies. It is what the parents want it to be...it frustrates me to no end

[LadyPearl]

I am so tired of the illness running through my daycare. I have kids that always have ALLERGIES and then next you know all of the other kids caught their allergies too.

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I think 1 of mine will have an excuse of allergies as well!

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

We have had "allergies" many times here as well.

[TwinKristi]

That was my ex-dcb's primary issue... He always had "allergies" that tuned into a fever and major illness. I could tell he was getting sick because bis eyes would get red, his temp would hover 99-100 and he would be grumpy. Mom said "oh yeah my allergies are killing me this week!"

[Blackcat31]

Here is a handy chart that tells you what the differences are between a cold and allergies.

I know NOT all allergies/colds fit into this chart but it's a starting place for those parents who confuse the two.