my judgy pants are so high they may need to be surgically removed

[StrandedBear]

We are at the park, a little boy just ran up to his mum saying he was going to be sick. She cleared a space for him gave him some water and sent him back off to play in the water!

This isn't right is it? Or am I being seriously misguided?

Probably he might have just had too much sugary food and she was probably expecting him to be sick

No its not right.

yanbu,. poor little thing :(

you'd think she'd have taken him straight home.

Was he sick?

I wouldn't have sent mine in the water if they felt sick though.

When did that happen? In this heat?

In the water?! Lovely, vom floating everywhere then? YANBU - why didn't she stay with him for a bit?

It may just be something he says. Dd always says she's poorly when she's thirsty or hungry as its an odd feeling in her tummy. Yabu ro pull those pants up so high, especially in this weather.

If I dragged my drama queen DD away from public places every time she said she felt sick, we would never actually be anywhere. So, not quite as easy to judge as you would think.

Oh no he was sick, about 3 times. He had a drink of water and then off he went. It's like a water play thing with fountins not actual sitting water (if that makes it better?)

Judge away. I was at the swimming pool with DS yesterday when a girl was sick in the pool and we all had to get out. Pity the poor lifeguard trying to collect, er, chunks in his net.

Just make sure that your children are well away from potentially vomiting boy and can get out of the water when you need them to.

Well what would you expect the mum to do?

Well I would expect her to have sat with her recently vomitted child for 5 minutes and then taken him home.

Olympia - I would expect her to take him home

The sickness may have been from travel sickness..... Mine were bad travellers and would throw up up to an hour after the journey

Or may have been heat/ice cream induced

Sorry OP, your OP isn't clear that he actually WAS sick. I was going to say YABU, kids often say they feel sick and then are not. However, if he was actually sick, then YANBU and she should have taken him home straight away.

It's unfair on everybody if there is a chance he may be sick in the water.

I don't know, it depends.

Its not great but my ds went through a vomiting phase. It was as if he couldn't measure when he was full or when to calm down, he was constantly running around throwing up and then being fine.

I know its sounds totally bizarre but for about 10 months I was clearing up sick all the time then he stopped. Doctor told me, 'some people just do that'

Sorry but she should have taken him home. It's possible sun stroke or anything else but still.
Where was he sick? It's a bag??

It's a park not a pool

The mother made a judgement, maybe their day was cut short but she had other kids to think of too

So bloody judgey over something like this?
any excuse for a thread

LeMarchandsbox- He needn't have something contagious to be taken home.

It doesn't matter WHY he was sick, the fact remains that he could be sick in water that other people are playing in and that would be revolting.

Sick is sick whether it's allergy, food intolerance or something going down the wrong way. You don't want the contents of someone's stomach floating past you. Nothing to do with whether it's D and V or not!!

They weren't in a pool though?

Oh yes!

I'd freak out but then I'm emetophobic, so not sure I'm the best person to comment.

Yanbu- mum probably didn't want her sunbathing interrupted.