To think people want to wrap kids up in cotton wool now?!

As a PP above said, your kids would not get sick if other sick kids were kept home.

I think you can answer your own question, by asking yourself if other parents should keep their sick kids home so they don't infect your kids. getting them sick, so you have to take time off.

Does that make sense ? TBH, I'm not sure myself.

But it's a paradox thing. Because you sending your sick kids to school causes other kids to get sick, and their parents might be cursing you because your kids passed on what they have to theirs.

So the cycle needs to be broken when something is going around.

And if the cycle is not broken, then you will have regular sick kids you need to stay home to look after.

So if everyone kept their kids off when sick initially, in the long run there would be less sick kids, and more lost work days in the long term.

Whoah OP, chill man! Stop watching nonsense on social media, you’ll feel much better! In the real world the vast majority of parents are sensible enough to know if a sniffle is just a sniffle and their kid is okay to go to school, or if their kid is clearly unwell and needs to be tucked up in bed with a good old fashioned dose of TLC!
it can be a hard call to make first thing in the morning when most people, including kids, aren’t feeling their best, particularly on dark mornings, but go on what you see or instinct and do what you feel is in the best interest of your child.
I think this current craze of building ‘resilience’, in my day it was known as ‘character building’, is just a load of bollocks, but that’s just my opinion.
as to what you can do, well, what most of us have to do; take annual leave/ unpaid leave / tell the dad to step up/ look for a more flexible job / become self employed…
it is shite, no one is denying its very stressful raising kids when two parents work with inflexible employers. When most people are thinking about raising a family it’s probably not on any potential parent’ radar, but it should probably be covered in PHSE, damn sight more use the knowing about anal and oral sex but there we go.

I agree in general but that's a bad example.

Kids should not be sent to school if they are ill.
It's miserable for them and all the others they infect. You end up with half the class off and the teachers getting ill.
You have to take your holidays when they are off sick. I used most of my annual leave on kid's sick days when they were little. This was in the early 2000s, don't know if parents are allowed parenting leave now.

I can't see the issue. She started off talking about flu, well of course nobody should be in work or school if they've got that. Are you taking her "not feeling 100%" completely literally? I don't think she's saying take time off if you feel anything other than totally ready to run a marathon, at the very peak of energy and fitness.

Having a cold doesn't mean you are ill.

Yes kids are wrapped in cotton wool nowadays. I don't understand why adults do this? All they're doing is creating a rod for their own back. Never mind there will always be sites where people can come and say my kids are rude/entitled blah blah blah... yeah well if you had took them in hand then they might not be like this.

Ban gentle parenting!

Totally
When I was a kid I travelled on the tube and train on my own at 13
Was going to parties at 15
The last thing we wanted to do during holidays was spend tome with parents we were out with friends from about 14
Now parents think during a holiday "what do we do to amuse our kids"
LET them go out and explore as develop as people
This is why so many cannot cope with the slightest disappointments or conflict and have become one of the snowflake generations

Nobody would develop any immunity to cough/cold viruses either.

Perhaps the solution is better protections for workers with children (I think you are allowed several weeks of unpaid leave for care duties, not sure of the details). But it's not forcing sick children into school to get worse, take longer to recover and spread illness further.

This is pretty new since Covid and it mostly depends. If you’re genuinely so unwell you would otherwise be in bed then don’t go to work / school but we all have immune systems and unless we’re somehow immuno compromised then as a rule it’s good for us to be exposed to each others germs in order to be able to be able to shake off things like colds and bugs easily rather than go down for a week every time someone sneezes on us.

I do the kind of job which impacts public safety and if I don’t go in, they’re just short of people as there aren’t enough numbers to provide a replacement so pretty sure most people here would expect me to just man up and get on with it if I had a cold, which I do. I’m raising my teenage sons with the same resilience which will only benefit them in the workplace.

They shouldn't be in school if they're ill.

But it isn't everyone's life, is it?

My work lets me have time off when I'm sick.

Well this is the basic unfairness of life. Some people don't work, some have more flexible jobs, some have family support.

You presumably have enough resilience to cope?

Because it’s irrelevant - if you want to send your ill child to school then that’s your judgement. That doesn’t mean we should have to be forced to take our kids in when we don’t feel that they’re well enough.

I think the point is that parents should be able to make the decision on whether they feel their child is well enough for school or not without the school making threats about attendance.

You're very confused, this is just a groundless rant.

In the good old days, kids were more likely to be off school when ill as there was little absence management and less common for both parents to be working and ok to be home alone.

These days kids are encouraged into school more when ill, yet somehow you think they are suddenly less resilient because they are off more, even though they are off less

At least try to base your rants in facts.

Also, how are you measuring resilience?

Your kids have a cold every 10 minutes because people send their children to school when they’re ill.

Oh and yes, kids don't have resilience nowadays because for some reason parents are loath to allow their child any independence at all

For a bog standard cold then they should go in, it's only with severe illness that they need to be off. My 3 year old goes to a childminder and if I was to keep him home for every cold, he'd never be there from November to march

But, surely, your children wouldn't have a cold every ten minutes if everyone didn't go to school and pass it around. 😬

I think it depends on what you class as a cold. My mum always sent me to school with a cold. She said I didn't have a temperature so that was that, even though I felt rough. Now I notice other people say they have a cold when they have a runny nose. When I come into a warm room from outside and then have to blow my nose my colleagues ask if Ive got a cold - no! And it was the same with DC when they were at nursery.