Not sending toddler into Nursery

[Beauty3102]

Hi

Need some advice, we’ve just received an email from my daughters nursery saying they’ve got 4 positive Covid cases and now a Hand, Foot & Mouth case. AIBU I don’t want to send him in this week?

Don’t send him then, if it’s Nursery you’ve no legal obligation to.

Don't then?

Don't send him in then, you'd still have to pay though

You don't have to send him but equally you then can't moan about paying for days he isn't attending or about using holidays from work etc.

To be honest toddlers get unwell constantly and if I kept mine off just because he might catch something he would literally never ever go. Personally I'd save any days off for when he was actually poorly.

Yanbu but they're probably going to get both at some point. Unless they were vulnerable or there was a big event or something I didn't want them to be ill for, I'd probably send them in personally.

Totally up to you - that probably why they have informed you of the cases. Some people will be more concerned than others due to their circumstances.

Depends if you rely on them for childcare. Also, if you pay, you are still obliged to settle the bill.

Not sure how old your child is but when school starts this will be the norm. We had several years of Norovirus, chicken pox, flu and other viruses coming and infecting everyone.

Up to you, you don’t have to if you don’t want to.

You don’t have to, but you will still have to pay.

It’s good for their immune system - it builds them up. You can’t shield them from being sick and you shouldn’t try to.

If you keep your child off nursery every time there is something going round then you will never go.

I got a similar email but I have to work this week so off yes goes to the covid party, which I guess is weekly at the mo

Dinna send them in then 🤷🏻‍♀️

If you don’t want to send them in and don’t need to send them in, then don’t, nobody will mind. You’ll obviously still have to pay but if your keen for them to avoid getting ill then i guess it’s worth it.

We seem to get emails literally every week about covid, HF&M, chickenpox or nits. If I kept her off whenever something was going round, she'd never be in!

But if you're worried, and have the flexibility to keep him off with you, there's no problem with keeping him home

Tbh op you can't shield them from covid or other minor childhood diseases like hfm. I do understand that need to protect, I changed my life around in March 2020 to avoid sending my twins (who were then 3) into nursery as I was so terrified of them catching covid. I was a stay at home mum by day and worked in the evenings. I kept that up for a bloody year until school loomed and I decided they needed the last 6 months of preschool. I was still petrified of covid. They're in reception now, and both tested positive for covid on Tuesday ( school had outbreak so requested ltf) . Theyve been off all week and have both been entirely asymptomatic. Not a hint of illness. I'm both hysterically relieved but also annoyed with myself that I spent the last 2 years petrified of something and inconveniencing everything for something that has turned out to be absolutely fuck all.