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?

Where was he actually sick..into a bag, or on the floor?

Some kids are serial yakers. I'm guessing if they both seemed prepared for the event, that would be the case.

He was actually sick on the floor, she seemed a little surprised he had been sick. Yes I'm judging his mum for not removing him. It might not be a pool but the water is still recycled

My DD1 treated her early years (and quite a few since) as a kind of vomitathon. Parents know their own children. The fact that the mother and child treated it so matter-of-factly implies to me that it was a fairly common event.

It sounds like mother and child were in control of the situation.

Not the same but sort of related... My DS swallows loads of air when we go swimming and it often makes him sick. I know the signs so I get him out of the pool to throw up, hose him down and take him back in.

So maybe the boy didn't need to go home. Probably not if he was up to running back in the water.

But if it was a regular event then surely the mother would be prepared and so have had a bag or something at the ready rather than just let him throw up on the ground!

We were out for lunch on Sunday. Little girl at the next table was sick. I didn't see, thankfully - another emetophobe here - but DH did and commented, and I saw the extensive cleaning up by the staff. I took the kids out as they had finished and left DH with a quiet coffee - he said by the time he came out ten minutes later (so, less than twenty minutes post- vom) the kid had a massive plate of Sunday dinner in front of her!

Why should she have taken him home?
He was sick
That doesn't mean he was ill
Or should she have taken him home for shame?
I don't get it?

If he went off quite happily afterwards and didn't want to stay put then presumably he felt OK.

Were you close enought to hear what she said? Maybe she asked him if he needed to go home and he said he felt fine?

Kids get vomitous for all sorts of reasons - excitement/too much candy floss/travelling/wolfing down food/etc. etc.

If he was well enough to play afterwards why should she take him home? It might be something he's prone to for medical reasons, or just travel sickness like a previous poster said. We don't know.

If he had vomited he probably wouldn't do it agin so I think yabu

All my children feel a bit hot today.
I am keeping them in just in case
It might be something to do with it being 40 degrees out there but you can never be too careful

Absolutely MrsDeV - can't have them melting.

My Ds always has an unexpected second purge after the first so I would have taken him home with a carrier bag in the back of the car.

Nothing to do with being precious or the "melting" (God that annoys me).

was at the airport, a probably 10 year old kid puked just after the security checkpoint. Mum promptly pulled him away and I stood there for about 10 mins warning people not to slip in it. Cleaner was called and he had one of those feathery brooms and he rubbed it into the floor until it was gone

YANBU. Some kids throw up quite happily, a quick vomit then they feel fine, but to allow that vomit to be in a swimming pool is revolting.

goes to fish judgey pants out of the laundry