Taking toddler to party with a cold?

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Dd has a nasty cough and snotty nose but is ok within herself and eating well. Due to be at a classmates Halloween party this morning but it's in a church hall and for dd sake I'm thinking cold floors and flimsy Halloween frocks might not be the best thing for her on a cold rainy day.

Obviously don't want to pass anything on to others too. But feel bad to let the parents down and dd has been so excited about her costume. Wouldn't even consider it with a sickness bug but coughs and colds are a bit greyer. Wwyd?

I’d put warm clothes on underneath the costume and send her

I wouldn’t personally. It’s a party, not essential childcare.

If she is excited and happy to be going and sad at the idea of having that snatched away, I would be sending her. Kids wouldn’t go to any parties at all if they were all cancelled because of colds. Sickness obviously different.

Why not call your host and ask her preference?

If she goes, I'd put a t-shirt under her dress.

Definitely not. Not fair to the other children to catch a nasty cough from a party. And nicer for her to rest at home too.

This definitely. If you didn't take them anywhere when they're snotty you'd be stuck in all winter😅

If she's well in herself and doesn't have a fever I'd send her. Half her class have probably got it or had it recently. We're on our third cold this half term.

Layer her up and calpol. she'll have caught it from her classmates anyway or they'll have already caught it off her.

I always sent DD because the parties she went to were with the kids she was at nursery with all week anyway. If she was well enough to go to nursery with them they were all exposed anyway and a party didn't make any difference.
If she’d been too ill for childcare then too ill for the party.

I would not. Unfair on other children and parents

Don't take her, she's snotty, she's infectious even if she's not ill. Unless she has raging allergies and the snotty is from that.

I would take her if:

She wants to go
She's well enough to go without medication
She doesn't have a fever

If she sees this children during the week, even better.

If she's ok I'm herself I'd bring her. Colds and coughs are constant at this age.

I wouldn't even be particularly worried about the cold room at a party as they'll be running around like mad things, but put her in leggings and a t-shirt under her dress and it's easy to remove layers if she gets too hot.