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?

I.'ve decided to embrace the bonkers that is AIBU.

By Friday 'bonkers' is just about all I can manage.

I'm surprised no one has said anything about the 14 being at home alone tbh.

I think the word school distracted everyone

I have AIBU topic hidden Usual but there's a glitch in that AIBU threads still appear in Most Active. It needs fixing.

It should be Am I Bonkers or Unwise anyway.

I can't believe there are people on here advocating sending a child into school a couple of hours after she vomited. You are the sort of people that make my job a frigging nightmare, as we try and clear up carpeted classrooms, swimming with vomit, as the child weakly admits that they've been sick overnight, but mum said to ring if they weren't well
All the surrounding children then subsequently then come down with it, as well as all the staff. FGS the 48 hour rule is there for a reason.

Giles I'm surprised nobody has called the OP "entitled" yet. MN ain't what it used to be

I'm still not sure why DC2 couldn't come with you to the salon rather than DC1 look after them, if she was well enough to be left with her brother (because if she was likely to be throwing up again, it was a bit shit to leave the 14 year old to deal with that), then she was well enough to come with you, read a magazine/book and just be bored for a couple of hours.

You didn't keep DC1 off school because you needed them to look after DC2, you kept DC1 off school to avoid DC2 getting bored at the hairdressers. And to make sure you had a relaxing time getting your hair done, not trying to supervise your DC2.

So for that, YWBU - you didn't really need to keep DC1 off in order to get your hair done.

and no one has mentioned goats :(

Our education system isn't 'free' btw it's paid for by taxes - imagine if the OP hadn't gone to the hairdresser - hairdresser doesn't get paid - pays less taxes - education suffers

she did us all a favour

I remembered that 2 weeks ago today my DS had an entire day off cos my dh took him away for the weekend.

Hoik your bossoms away.

I work in a high school. Don't send your kids to school if they've been sick, even if they seem fine afterwards. Chances are, they will come to my office, vomit everywhere & I will then call you & demand you pick your child up.

What if the kid stayed off to feed the goat? would that be ok.

Consider yourself told! Op

Someone's mentioned "goad" that's quite close to "goat"

I do Mrs. I feel suitably chastised.

How entitled are you OP?

Thank you Heisenberg - you have restored my faith!

Farmacy, some of us haven't actually done anything wrong with our children, teens or otherwise. Others' moral compasses are so skewed that they are unable to distinguish between right and wrong. Pompous maybe, but some of us manage to do quite the right thing and still have happy children and lives. Not everyone has to break the rules to lighten up. I am very happy to comply with rules but we still have a lot of fun.

My hair vs school, my hair is never going to win. And I'm fine with that.

I highly doubt that one half day of DVDs/games etc is going to make a crucial difference to the OPs DSs education.

There are still three weeks left. The vast majority of schools will still be teaching proper stuff right up until the last week. Where are people getting the idea that all teaching stops after the last half term?

Anyway, as previously said its not what he missed it was the fact that he has been shown that it's ok to lie to get what you want even if it is something completely unimportant like a hair cut.

Oh, God, I kept my two off primary school one day because I couldn't face making them dress up clothes for Victorian Day. An entire day!

Shoot me

Hope your hair looks nice OP

Pipbin, at least read the OP's posts. OP is in Scotland and they have 1 week left.

Is this for real? Must find time to read the thread later. As I have teens and a 6 yo, I can't imagine ever doing this. The parent and the teacher in me are both going wtf?!

There aren't three weeks left in Scotland. The authority I live in finished today. I have another week left. Personally I am working like a bitch to keep the momentum going because a week of games and films is hellish.

The only issue really will be when child inevitably mentions this in class and a teacher will get the silent rage.

There aren't 3 weeks left in Scotland pipbin

It's not something I'd do because I hate haircuts and only get one once a year but I really don't think it's that big a deal. Yes, you were probably unreasonable but you've said you don't normally do it.

at this thread.

Op, I think a pp has pretty much put a hex on your hair running on holiday.

I sense a poem coming further down the thread...