Send to school or not?

Cricket was sent home from school on Wednesday because she threw up. She was sick on Thursday as well, and now just has a cold and occasional cough. Piper caught the cold part too, so they're both a bit whiny and tired and have on and off runny noses. Saturday and Sunday they were both super whiny in the early AM, better in the late AM, took super long naps, and then had great afternoons.

My husband gets the girls ready for school each morning while I work from home. I can hear much of what goes on but don't usually intervene. Today the girls were slow moving but happy until he pushed them to get moving. Then they dissolved into whiny crying fits. He came in and told me they probably couldn't go to school today because they were sick. But I disagree. Sure, they're whiny and appear a bit sick now, but I suspect they'll be fine once they get out of the house and don't have their father rushing them along.

Am I turning into one of those awful daycare/preschool parents who send their kids when they're sick? Or do you send your kids in these types of situations?

Thanks!

PS. Neither of my girls had any of the symptoms that the school says require they stay home (bad cough, yellow gunk in nose, fever, etc.)

 

I tend to err on the conservative side and keep them home if they are not acting like themselves.

Hope they are feeling better.

 

Me too.

I figure that if I don't want people to send their kid and get mine sick, I should make sure I don't do it either.

I have had people do it and not only do they get 1 of mine sick, but ALL 5 of mine end up getting it <_<

 

I got "the call" from daycare last week and kept them both home the next day. They could have gone back to school the next day. If the daycare says they can come in, I bring them in. For us, that's just a fever that won't go away or vomiting. Cold symptoms are allowed. In fact, they wouldn't have any children all (except for ours!) if the parents had to keep them at home for sniffles/snotty noses. Of course, if they act miserable, I stay home.

You had two days of whiny mornings, good naps, great afternoons to base your decision on.

/mutters to self, and they got me in trouble at work for excessive absences.

 

I'm with you. My kids are always whiny and resistant about going to school on Monday mornings, and even more so when they've been home sick. I send them unless they have a symptom that is on the school's exclusion list. Being cranky and whiny is well within the range of "acting like themselves," so I don't consider that evidence of sickness unless there's something else going on too! And if I kept them home every time they had a cold, I might as well quit my job. All the kids at school have colds all winter.

 

:rotflmbo:

 

If this was out of the norm for them, I probably would have kept them home, assuming they were not "themselves". However, if that is how the morning usually goes then I would have sent them.

 

I would have sent mine too, if they had shown no symptoms. It takes a while to get all your energy back from a sickness, but I am one who thinks once they get to daycare they'll be fine. If no symptoms are showing, I send them.

 

If its not the norm, I would have sent them. All Leah has to do is say she doesnt feel well and I keep her home. It's pretty rare that it happens. But I am also a SAHM so I think I might be more lenient as to what I would consider a "sickness" then if I had to go to work. Or it could be that it's just pre-school and I dont care if she misses a day here and there.

 

I agree that if this is not their normal behavior I would have kept them home. If they are always whiney like that then, oh well off to school you go!

I also think that when they are so young like yours I tend to err on the side of keeping them home. When they get older 5/6 when they can be more specific about what they are feeling, emotionally cranky versus sick, I feel more comfortable pushing them a bit more with the right info.