To let DD stay off school so she can buy an ice cream?

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DH told DD (7) she could have an ice cream at the weekend after she rode up the hill to our town for the first time without stopping. She didn't eat it as wasn't hungry. DH gave her money to buy an ice cream on Tuesday evening.
Wednesday pm we were out in the heat all afternoon then she had football training until 6. In the car in the way home she drank .75l of water. As soon as we got in, she threw up the water. Kept her home yesterday, fine except she complained once just before dinner that her tummy felt weird, she felt sick and only ate some cucumber and a slice of bread, wasn't actually sick. She's past the 24 hour quarantine and seems perfectly fine this morning. She said she's too ill to go to school, but that I should pack the cool bag for the shopping and she'll bring her money
I have a history of dislike (atrocious treatment of my elder DC with SN) with the teacher she has today, who is not her class teacher.
Send her in or let her buy her ice cream?

Tbh it sounds like it makes it more convenient for you to run your errands, you said so yourself

Does nobody ever take a day off work when they are not really ill just because?

No. I think you’ll be shocked to find that most people don’t.

Let her stay off, not long till end of the year.

She finishes at 12.... pick her up, take her for ice cream. Goodness.

If you have a problem with the teacher then you should air those concerns.

It’s a bit ridiculous to want to keep your dd off for that reason under the cover of ice cream promises.

Does nobody ever take a day off work when they are not really ill just because?

No I book annual leave.

God there are some miserable people on here. She's 7, it's a Friday and she was off yesterday, what difference will it make if she stays off today?

I may have been tempted to keep her off as you said she was still feeling slightly poorly yesterday.... however the minute she suggested you packing the cool bag and her getting her money to buy ice cream there would be no chance in hell I'd be keeping her off.

Does nobody ever take a day off work when they are not really ill just because?

No. And I'm bloody glad my colleagues don't either.

Send her to school, OP.

Hope the disliked teacher doesn't have the same attitude to absence the OP does.
It wasn't a proper vomiting bug, it was a child who necked too much water too quickly after exercise so she wasn't even really ill beyond that and has been pulling your strings all day yesterday.

And if at 7 she plays you like this, imagine what she's going to be like at 15.

I’m in Scotland and don’t know any schools which shut on Friday afternoons - so not standard.

Another vote for sending her to school.

24h after last episode is complying with the school absence police and still risks passing on the infection, spreading the misery further.

All health trusts have a strict 48h policy for a reason, established by the microbiologists. With all due respect, the school staff are getting too far up themselves, risking people's wellbeing for their box ticking.

If she's only there TIL 12.30 send her to school. Run around get all your jobs done and free up your afternoon to take her out for ice-cream. Put a flake in it. & sprinkles. & sauce. Have one yourself.

"If she is too ill for school she is to ill for ice cream.
That's what I said yesterday!"

If this is what you said yesterday then why are you asking us if you can keep her off and buy her an ice-cream? You're giving us mixed messages.

I'd either send her in or keep her off based purely on her health. This whole ice-cream thing / which teacher it is shouldn't even come into the equation. If she's been sick I believe it should be 48 hours off (former teacher) but you're saying your school does 24 hrs (in which case from what I understand she should still be off but I may be mistaken). You're the parent & you know your child. Assess the situation on her health alone and if you do decide to keep her off, a boring ice-cream free day should be in the cards imo.

I’ve heard it all now.

Can’t she have ice cream after school? What a load of bollocks!

I am with @FrancisCrawford schools in Edinburgh and the Lothians have been half day for as long as I have been up here and that’s at least 20 years.

@Lougle but you can still mumsnet while trying to work slowly with your migraine. Tbh I bet your colleagues would rather you were at home with it than at work complaining about it and squinting to look at the screen. Not everyone is a martyr. I struggle to force myself to take time off for illness as i work from home but sometimes it’s necessary. (Not for an ice cream)

I would probably send her to school for half the day. I don’t think she played you, she’s 7 and they don’t stop eating just to get a day off school, unless there is an underlying issue at school. However she will also be fine if you keep her off.

“Does nobody ever take a day off work when they are not really ill just because?”

If I did that I would have twice as much work to do tomorrow

Her being sick and feeling a bit off colour was probably due to having too much sun on Wednesday, rather than illness.

I’m in the fuckit camp

Just from a practical point of view, you need to be a bit careful about milk products following vomiting because it makes most people temporarily lactose intolerant.

It's 48 hours after the last bout of sickness - regardless of how they feel.

If she didnt eat anything yesterday except 1zluce of bread, I would keeping her off another day

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