If you're too ill for school you're not playing out!

[StrongerThanIThought76]

Dc too ill for school after being up in the night vomiting, wants to go out for dinner the same evening.

I say no way, AIBU?

But surely there are plenty of times when there is no doubt that the child is really ill? Chickenpox, for a start, vomiting bugs, flu with a temperature and a streaming nose and hacking cough. Genuine severe ear infection or urine infection diagnosed by a real doctor.

And surely on those occasions, there comes a time when the child is not yet ready to go to school, but is well enough to be mildly entertained? With chickenpox, for instance, many children will feel absolutely fine long before they stop being contagious. So why would you insist on them not being entertained in any way?

Do you abstain from Mumsnetting when you have the flu?

Of course YANBU OP, as I'm sure you know.

I agree with PP about "no daytime tv" being very harsh. I love to read but if I'm really poorly then I can't even find the energy to concentrate on a book but can manage to watch a bit of mindless tv to help distract from the discomfort and pass the time. Why should my genuinely ill child be denied the same??? It does smack of punishing them for daring to be inconvenient sick.