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I used to work in a center. My dd went with me from the ages of 1-4. She also went to an in home for a few months when she was 1 (before going to the center). She was and is never sick. In her 11.5 years of life, she went home once from the dc center because of an ear infection and I had to pick her up once in elem. because she had a headache (I think due to the flu shot she had the day before).
My ds has been with me since he was born and I opened my in-home when he was 6 mo. and he was sick more often than dd. And I clean a lot. I think it was side effects from immunizations because he always got sick after.
I have a dcb who was in a center and his mom brought him here because he was always getting sick, but he always has a runny nose or fever or something.
It really is hard to say.Comment
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Exactly! In my center, I've been noticing that 98% of illnesses are in the 0-2 yr old classes. 3s on up rarely get sick unless they have a sibling in one of those classes and even then it's not guaranteed. What I finally realized is that the parents of the 0-2 yr olds were more likely to dope and drop because the child was non verbal. This rarely happens in the older classes because as soon as the child tells us they had medicine, the Director is on the phone to mom/dad.Comment
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How funny, I just had this discussion with a mother at Toy's R Us yesterday while I was buying a new infant seat.
She is debating on pulling her toddler dd from a Montesorri center because her dd is always sick. It appears that they also had 2 school aged children. She was also saying that her sil was pulling her child from a center because said child was always sick.
I'm not really sure that you can pinpoint where a child picked up at illness. I swear that the peds office, grocery store, WalMart, Target, etc are hot beds of bacteria and viruses. I never allowed my kids to touch a toy or book at the dr's office.
We just had a virus go through here. Dcg #1 came in with a low fever on a Monday. I sent her home and she returned the next day with no fever and no meds. Come Fri, dcb came down with a fever. Gdsn #1 had a fever over that weekend and was sent home from school the following Fr with a migrain and fever. He fought fevers all weekend.
Now, did gdsn have the same virus as the other 2 who had a 24 hr fever or did he have a virus that he picked up from school? DD is posiitive tha no one in the whole school was sick so the other kids got him sick. He was already on antibiotics for an ear infection.Comment
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Oh, hands down, 100% a center is worse!!! We had our 2 children in a center for 6 months. I spent at least 1 day a week in our pediatrician's office because one child or the other was sick... the time off work, co-pays for the visit and meds. Forget it!!
Also, DH and I and the kids clean a center as a side job. I know what WE do on the 2 nights we're there, but I don't know if the teachers do what they're supposed to on the other days. I do know what I see, that's all I'm saying....
It's really a numbers game though. I have 3 children that come here, my own 2 (10 &11) are homeschooled so they're not bringing in too many contagious things.... I've had 1 child go home sick 1 time in almost 2 years. There have been a couple of weekend things where no one was showing symptoms on Friday, but 2 of the kids had a little bug but that's happened maybe twice.. and it was during a time when something was going around and one of the dck's mom is a nurse at a hospital and had it the week before, so... lots of factors...
I keep my home tidy, and clean as needed. I'm not a germophobe, but I disinfect the obvious things daily (toys that went into mouths, highchair trays, etc.) and do the rest on a regular basis.Comment
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