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just need to moan

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franyfroo · 04/02/2008 10:21

why do parents send their children to me when they are very obviously unwell. I have just got over that flu bug, had it since xmas (never felt sooooo ill) and now they are sending me more sicky children. I know you cant avoid colds but when the children just cry all day, its not fair to the other children.

why do parents just feel they can pay me when they like. I even charge 20 for late ones but they still pay late.

am fed up......but feel bit better after my rant.

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aGalChangedHerName · 04/02/2008 11:09

I have worked in nurseries and although they may have said to ytour face that it was fine i'm sure they would have had a moan anyway.

I have no problem taking a child with a cold but if they want to lie on the couch all day crying and whinging then they should be at home.

I have nursery and school runs as do most cm's. It's not fair to expect very ill child to be dragged around all day when they are ill is it?

Twinkie1 · 04/02/2008 11:08

Above all though I don't send him when he is obviously sick but he goes when he has a snotty nose or a cough unless it is giving him a temperature but I would hate for someone to come on here and whinge about me or DS.

Twinkie1 · 04/02/2008 11:06

They take DS if he has a cold and is whigey though and I don't think they moan about it - last time he was sick he had tonsilitus and I kept him home but the time before that he had a bad cold and I had a meeting to go to and asked them if he was ok to go for a few hours - they were fine with it and said they couldn't stop him coming if he was whingey and snotty - he was fine once he got there just needed a few more cuddles than usual and there are more helpers there to take the brunt of his whingeyness - I would hate for someone to be cross with me or DS because he had a cold and wasn't his normal self!

aGalChangedHerName · 04/02/2008 11:05

Why do you send your ds to a nursery?? Don't quite get that.

nortynamechanger · 04/02/2008 11:04

Yes, I can't understand why sending them to nursery ill is any more acceptable that sending them to a CM?

My DS is off again this week (two whole weeks since Jan) with a horrid cold/cough on more steriods than ever to keep his o2 levels up.

I am fed up with seeing quite obviously unwell children, with streams of green snot on their top lips, hacking coughs, red watery eyes and red cheeks being dropped off without a backward glance.

nannyL · 04/02/2008 10:58

why does a nursry help?

surely they are even stricter about not taking sick children?

Twinkie1 · 04/02/2008 10:56

This is why I send DS to nursery and not a childminder!

nannyL · 04/02/2008 10:51

why not just call them and tell them to come and collect their sick children immediatly