Nursery sending home

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DS1 23mo almost once a week for stupid things like he is not himself or he's cranky and upset. They have a policy that they can't go in to nursery for 48 hours after they have Calpol is this normal? If so why? He's teething so of course I will give him Calpol to ease the pain but he's not unwell. Am I being unreasonable?

The usual 48 hour rule is for when a child has been sick or had the runs.
I've never heard a nursery have that policy for Calpol. Many nurseries are happy to give calpol if necessary and agreed in advance with the parents/carers.
I don't think you are being unreasonable.

Nursery as in day care?

Either way that's insane. They should be able to deal with cranky kids. Our Nursery would give doses of calpol and only send home if they were ill. There was a rule of not being allowed to send kid in for 24 hours after first dose of new to the child antibiotics in case of allergic reaction.

Never heard that one OP, 48 hours after calpol? How bizarre! We have a policy of 48 hours after the last bout of sickness or diorrhea (sp?) as do most places. I would have a word with the staff or Manager and ask for them to only call you to collect him if he really is poorly or upset. They should be trying to distract him with different toys and activities if he is unsettled, sounds a bit of a lazy cop out to me!

Yes private daycare nursery

Our nursery gives calpol if they need it. Only asked to pick them up if they are very poorly. In two years it has happened once.

At my DD’s nursery I signed a form to say I was happy for them to issue Calpol if/when needed. My DD has only ever stayed home when she had chicken pox or a tummy bug. Your DS’s nursery sounds hard work. Kids get cranky when their tired, hungry, teething etc etc etc they can’t seriously send him home for being cranky

Not heard of that. Our nursery would ask for collection if child was sick, obviously unwell or had something contagious.

Crankiness is surely to be expected by little ones when teething/tired etc? And the calpol ruling didn't apply at our nursery ( private day care).

Do the little ones have to pass a happy test in a morning before being let in?

I thought it was ludicrous especially the calpol thing, what a joke!

My nursery send home after Calpol, but it's a 24 hour exclusion (as in a full day off, so home first thing Tuesday, back Thursday). It's a pain in the arse.

Gosh sounds ridiculous, what a pain. Is it owned and managed by the same person or part of a group? If the latter then maybe you just have a particularly jobsworthy nursery manager and you could somehow "check policy" with head office...?

At our nursery a should cannot be calpol reliant (to keep a temp down for example) and would not be allowed at nursery, but for teething we are allowed to give it (but would need a telephone call first).
If a child is sick or has the runs they would be sent home for 48 hours. The only other reason would be if they were so poorly they needed 1.1 comfort and cuddles for extended periods of time. Then we would send home butbthey would be allowed back whenever the parents felt they were better.

I work in a nursery and we’d be empty 😂😂

One of my criteria when choosing a nursery was that they had a sensible sickness policy. They will give Calpol themselves and there is no exclusion just for that. In almost a year he has only been sent home once and that was when he was really poorly after his 1yr jabs and didn't settle after Calpol. They also exclude for sickness/diarrhoea bugs and contagious things like chicken pox but not normal childhood illnesses like colds or even HF&M.

It’s a private nursery they can have what ever terms and conditions they fancy.
Personally I would feel that was utterly ridiculous and remove my child.

Enforced absence for things not on the exclusion list or not involving a child who needs to be tucked up on a sofa irritate me

Those are ridiculous rules. Not normal at all.

Never heard of calpol rule. Tbh they don't sound like they're that capable of caring for small children. Most nurseries could handle a cranky or upset small person

That's unusual. Nursery want to know if we have given calpol and when we last did so that they can possibly give him more if needed. He's only been sent home once when he vomited everywhere which is fair enough.

Is he always sent home around the same time? Are they saving money on staff hours and needing to keep their ratios.
Either way I would be looking for a new nursery.

Whaaaaat? That's silly. Our nursery will administer calpol if needed, but phone first. They can attend with colds/usual minor ailments. Exclude for D&V obviously, but even then it's a sensible approach -my DS has allergies and we periodically test to see if he's grown out of them, which causes a dicky tummy for a couple weeks after-school they understand this so let him attend as not contagious or any bother to the other kids/staff. Definitely look for somewhere with more sensible policies.

Ours won't give calpol (as in, 'if they're ill enough to need calpol they are too ill to be at nursery') but that means they're bouncing around at home as right as rain having been given it at home. It does annoy me as sometimes they're not actually ill but the nursery is our only choice.
There's no time limit excluding them after though, that's just odd.

That sounds like a nursery trying to keep their numbers down for staffing ratios. There must be loads of kids off at all times on average - especially the youngest ones!

Where I used to work if a dc had had calpol or nurofen they couldn’t come in that day- cause so many parents worked 1+hr away and would dose them up knowing the poor kid was sick, send them in, within 3hrs the kid is hotter than hell and spread the infection or virus to every other person in the building so staff dropped like flies and more parents sent their dc in because work was put before their kids- it really was so bad that a rule had to be made.

As for the grumpy- fuck me, my ds is in a foul mood constantly at the moment around me, whinging and whining to be held then hitting me when he’s having cuddles because he’s 2 and in a snit. He’d never be at nursery if they sent him home for it! Fucking ridiculous I’d be moving my kid

Ours have a 24-hour exclusion after any new medication and the usual 48 hours for D&V, but have no problem with Calpol and will give one dose of it if necessary and if a parent has signed the permission form. If she's still not well after calpol they call home but there's no rule as to how long she needs to be kept off unless any of the other rules apply. They certainly don't call home for crankiness or not being quite herself.