WIBU to keep my son off school for this?

[Fantoosh]

So I had a hairdresser appointment this morning for 9.30. I desperately needed a cut and colour before going on holiday next week.

Unfortunately my dd was sick at 7.30am...although she seemed fine afterwards. This meant I had to keep her off school.
Given that the chances of getting another appointment in time for the hols was zero, was I bu to call in a sicky for my eldest son (14) this morning to watch her while I kept the appointment I had? Fridays are a half day at school anyway here.

My hair is looking great now but I don't know if I did the right thing.
What would you have done?

Read my 18.38 post back and it made no sense. I'll start again .

No, but the op is casually taking advantage of other people because she couldn't get herself organised to get her hair cut until the last minute

She WAS organised. But Her dd was sick and threw a spanner in the works.

But she dealt with it.

But obviously on here not to everyone's liking

What about shopping?
should op not go and let kids starve cos she should assume the kid might be sick so better not

Which is why you assume they might be and don't rely on your 14 year old son for babysitting. It really isn't that difficult to organise your life so that you don't need 'urgent' last minute haircuts. Just go grey if life is so unmanageable with coloured hair.

Oh give over, merrymouse.

probably best not to have kids at all really - I mean who is organised enough to cover every single eventuality related to the little sods?

Just go grey?! If only!
Listen...when my hair finally does go grey I'll be happy to let it go and be a silver fox...but atm it's brown shot through with grey and is drab and unflattering.
No I love my hair merry it's my best feature. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Not so much determined as disliking people who take advantage.

If you are in such desperate need of a haircut that you can't care for a sick child you either needed to get your hair cut sooner or your hair style is too high maintenance for your lifestyle.

I don't think the OP did irreparable damage to anyone, but was she reasonable? No - she took advantage of teachers who will have planned lessons around her son being in school - and her son, who of course was happy to miss school but shouldn't have.

Northeast able at all.

Merry what school do your kids go to - I'd love to send mine somewhere where teachers plan lessons individually around them

But by hour reasoning even if she booked it for a months time she should still assume kid would be sick and cancel appointment.

Make your mind up

Merry mouse I found your website

here

Damn! I was planning to have a long soak in the bath later with a glass of wine. Best not in case one of my little darlings voms

Yanbu at all op, there are the odd perks to having teenagers and emergency babysitting is one of them, it's the end of term, it's a half day, so what three hours of school missed.. Meh.

Re teens babysitting my 15 yr old babysits for his four younger siblings, I want out the other week, all four tucked up in bed etc, got a call to say ds2 had vommed everywhere... I spoke to ds1 he had stripped the bed, put the sheets in the bath and ds2 was on the sofa with a bowl and glass of water, they both said no need to come home, so I stayed another hour (at book club) then came home. Kids are far more capable than we give them credit for.

I was planning a walk in July 2019 perhaps I should cancel now incase the kids get sick or dp gets sick or my rabbits need the vets

yes she could have booked it a year ago and still would have been expected to cancel in your view

damn you OP for not having a hair style that fit in with your lifestyle (what the hell does that even mean ???)

Merrymouse when does you scheduled 55 min session on mumsnet - once a week - booked 3 weeks in advance - finish because you are keeping me highly entertained

Mrs you can still have your bath as long as you booked it over 4 weeks ago - anything less is just sloppy and disorganised and you should hang your head in shame

There is no such thing as an 'urgent' haircut, only hair that could have been sorted out a month ago or the wrong hairstyle.

What about shopping?
should op not go and let kids starve cos she should assume the kid might be sick so better not

If the op honestly couldn't manage shopping without getting her 14 year old to babysit her problems would be more serious and I would have sympathy.

I went away on honeymoon in may, well three nights away.. Dd got chickenpox within 12 hrs of us leaving... We still stayed away for three nights, but I guess we should have come home immediately despite it being the first time in 16 years we had ever gone away without the kids.

But what fucking difference would it have made.

She wouldn't get a months warning if sickness.

What so the 14 yr old should never babysit?

maybe her daughter should book her sickness in advance - the selfish child

The day I select a hairstyle tto suit my lifestyle, not because it suits me and I love it, you can shoot me

Giles obviously you're supposed to drop everything the minute your child voms...

This thread is really silly.

I thought the op was a joke, because, seriously, no one is that self absorbed they'd do this.

Then I read the last page, and randomly, posters are mocking anyone who suggests the priority order is education, followed by a cut and colour.

Which is bizarre to say the least.

All I can imagine is the op and the few posters who think what she did was right, are sat in a room together consuming a few bottles and giggling away, making it all up.

But by hour reasoning even if she booked it for a months time she should still assume kid would be sick and cancel appointment

And it would be fine because she could rebook the following week presumably, but apparently the emergency babysitting is required because of the holiday.

Merry, so people should stop everything if their child has a mild illness?

She went fir a haircut and was available on phone if needed. She wasn't on a month long cruise with a kid on life support

god I'd be worried about a 14 yr old incapable of making a phone call or watching a dvd with a sister.