To expect parents to keeping contageous children at home! Especially in the run up to xmas!

[Doubletroublemummy2]

My friend has children that attends the same school as mine and casually announced at the school gate yesterday that her child is poorly with hand, foot and mouth! Am I being unreasonable to feel totally justified, if my kids have hand foot and mouth over xmas, to go and burn down her Xmas tree!?

I am surprised the ursery let them in tbh when I worked in a nursery granted it was yeears ago, but if children had H F M they were sent home

Nursery* although parents tried to send them and sometimes wouldnt answer their phone if they were phoned to come and get them , the head teacher was really strict about these sorts of viruses

YANBU, DS was sick last week and i kept him off on thr friday and obviously over the weekend, for him to then have to go to school on monday and mix with "friend's" child who had been sick on sunday night. her kids are always are school ill because she cant be bothered looking after them.

thankfully DS didn't catch the bug back but a few other kids ended up with it.

to be honest i do feel the spread of bugs is inevitable- they can be picked up anywhere not just at school but it certainly doesn't help.

Yanbu, I had this a couple of years ago at my wedding. My cousin's DS had d&v and she still brought him along. I know it wouldn't have been nice for him to miss out but a couple of days later when my little family went away on holiday, DS wound up with it. A couple of days later I got it. So we ended up spending the whole of our little holiday/honeymoon sick with D&V, all because my cousin didn't keep her DS at home. Was quite upsetting.

I'm in week three of chicken pox confinement. When the first child had it I still had to do the school run for his olde brother which I was worried about so we tweaked it so that we didn't get close to anyone. As it happens, he's passed the virus onto our friends two sons two days before he got spots so no one cloud have known it was going to happen at that stage. I still feel terrible about it though.

It's difficult when you have more than one child that has to get on with normal life while the other is unwell. I accosted a fellow school mum to stand by my car with poxy child in while I ran into the pharmacy to get calamine lotion. We've had to cancel our Christmas trip this evening, it's shit but you've got to suck it up.

I have a family member who had a leisurely tesco shop with her child who had just come out in chicken pox.

Heartbroken, when one of mine is ill (I have three little ones), I hang out near the school gate and wait for someone Inknow passes and get them to take the well ones in.

With chicken pox I left them in the car/ stood further away.

TheWitTank that's what got me about a young boy at my Ds's nursery. Told his mum he didn't feel well. dragged him in anyway and he promptly threw up all over the carpet amongst 29other children 30minutes later. BOTH Mum and Dad came to pick him up. He was an only child too so it wasn't like they had others to take to school or look after too. Why couldn't one of them stayed at home with the poor soul in the first place?!

Whereismyhat, poor you chicken pox is the longest and hardest in my opinion. Make sure your stocked up on antihistamine and calamine as the second child usually get it worse.

It's not just sick kids. I've had to send a colleague home before because she came in and was a bit vommy. She came in told us she was unwell but that she needed to come in to get things done and would go home once finished. Ended up banning her from touching anything doing anything etc. had to ring her mum (she was only 21 at the time) to come and get her.

After she left we all went into a panic had to disinfect everything on and around her desk. Luckily none of us caught it. But still. Selfish.

I ended up doing the school run with 4 year old DS in the pushchair with the rainhood on in the end. Mind you, the school didn't even bother to tell us there was an outbreak so I'd merrily taken a slightly peaky boy out and about for two days before the spots became obvious. If they'd bloody told me then I'd have noticed the tiny red mark immediately and quarantined him. And my mate wouldn't have taken her premature toddler in to toddle round the playground cuddling people at pickup time.