Help! My kids are sick at least once a month? Is this normal!?

[pandemicparenting]

Hey,
I need help! My kids, aged 2 and 4 are constantly sick, like at least every month!
Its either a cold, stomach bug, flu and the latest this week is a temperature with a very mild head cold, no other symptoms. Other than the temperature they’re fine. I have a temperature too, My husband and I end up getting whatever they do.
It’s seriously affecting our work and life, we are constantly cancelling things and having to miss work.
I asked my doctor about it last Winter and they said it’s normal for kids to get infections up to 12 times a year so I suppose this works out at once a month.
however it just seems excessive lately. They had a vomiting bug in mid August, a cough cold first week of September and now two weeks later some other virus.
can I ask is it the same for everyone else? Is this normal? They are constantly missing school, and It seems like every second week I’m missing work, which is causing a struggle.

AIBU (no it’s normal) or AINBU (its abnormal)

why are people sending in sick kids to school or nursery, 1 they won't learn anything and 2 what about those poor other kids who might have vulnerabilities that you as a parent don't know about, it's so selfish imo

The way immune systems work is that you need to be exposed to mild viruses.

If every child with a sniffle is kept off school then no-one you build immune defences. Hence why kids have been more ill since lockdown lifted.