If Child Is Too Sick For School

[ToughLoveLDN]

Hi,

AIBU to think that if your child is too sick to go to school with vomiting etc then they shouldn't be going for a sleepover at grandparents?

YABU - It's fine
YANBU - No they should be at home with their parents

What's your interest in the situation OP? Unless you're the parent or GP it's nothing to do with you.

keeping your child off school for a common cold is ridiculous. You sound OTT

And me and her dad have work tomorrow. There isn't much else we can do.

@FluffyWorm Yes I do

@ShuttersThatShut my DD is a toddler who stays home with me everyday except the 1 night she spends at GP's. Obviously as she gets older and starts school I won't keep her off but she's so little still, not even 2 yet.

@ThePumpking Thats exactly it for me. I rely on my MIL to watch my DD 1 night a week so that I can go into work which is massively appreciated but now I feel like 'what if my daughter gets sick?' by going there because the childs mum couldn't look after her own child.

Ok I see the question a bit more now. No I don’t think a sick child should be with GPs at the same time as another grandchild if they don’t need to be there - if their parent also worked whilst they were there, it might just be the way things had to be, but I don’t think they should be there potentially infecting a child who needs to be there.

I guess it’s still the GPs’s call though

I sort of get you as I had a childminder for a while who was very relaxed about bugs and not applying the 48hr rule. Great when it's your own child, not so great when it's another child spreading the bug.

But in this situation they can make up their own minds. I wouldn't send a sick and sad child away, entirely possible I'd send one who had been sick but was fine now, for example they'd been sick in a car or after eating something weird.