To keep 5 year old of school today

[Londongirl89]

She's got a normal cold. But she is full on sneezing, winging, streaming nose and stuff. No temp or cough. A few kids she plays with have got it too and she has gradually caught it as the week has gone on. It's always my child that needs a day off. My friends son is my child's best mate and he went in Monday full of cold. Then went swimming and everything. He just looks healthier with colds and my daughter looks shattered and watery eyes everytime.

I've messaged the school. But I feel abit meh thats it's only week one and she's already off! Last year she had six days off with random viruses too. Hopefully attendance is more relaxed this year.

If she's well in herself I'd send her in personally, no matter how she looks. A lot of kids in reception have permanent snotty noses!

She's whinging and pale. Cried on and off through the night because her nose was blocked. She seems rough to be fair. She is always like this for a day though. But what I'm worried about is she always gets a cough after colds.

She's in year one now too. but I know what you mean about constant colds.

She’s 5, she feels rotten with a cold. Have a day snuggled up.

I would keep her off personally, doesn’t sound like she slept well.

I would probably keep her off. Some people do get really poorly with a cold.

Mine are the same my youngest dd 3 was really snotty and grumpy for a day then fine but my other two dds 5 & 7 have it and have been miserable whingy and up in the night I've kept them off, if they had just been snotty but fine as they sometimes are I would have sent them.

If she is tired and crabby, give her a day off. She will feel much better tomorrow.

She's unwell so she needs to be off school.

I should add no temp or cough. It's that lovely time of year were they become permanently snotty 😣

Thanks. I feel like I've done the right thing then. I don't want to be too soft on it. But in this current situation the school probably won't appreciate her going in on a bad day.

Whinging isn't a symptom, if she's physically well enough to go in send her, that little boy who doesn't whinge and just gets on with it there's a reason for that. Different if she's actually too unwell to go in. Having one day off for a virus makes it seem unlikely she was too ill, if she was she'd need more than a day off to recover

Whinging isn't a symptom

Whinging could indicate that a child feels rotten due to their symptoms though

Just don't think the schools will want kids in on the extremely snotty days at the moment she's grotty and would struggle. I know whinging isn't a symptom.

Ds who is 5 is off ill after catching whatever from a child full of snot in his class. I'm now on steroids for my asthma as he's passed it to me. GP has told us to get covid tests but none available where we live. We are in a global pandemic and now is not the time for soldiering on like we normally would. We need to protect others and your dd doesn't sound well enough to be in school.

If you send them in, they will get more poorly at school and you will be phoned to pick up a miserable ill child and feel like a terrible parent for making them go in the first place.
If you don't send them in they will rally after half an hour and within an hour be bouncing on the sofa singing Elsa songs at the top of their voice and you will feel like an idiot for not sending them.
Twas ever thus.

Yes if you can keep her home then do.

I'm sure the School is definitely on your side with this one.
Plus if someone were to have covid in her class then her immune system will be compromised with her cold so she'll be more prone to catching it.

So true she is a little more bouncy now. Always the way. I've also been asked to collect her last year when I tried to be tough mummy. I definitely think she needs home today though. Teachers don't need the extra stress.