How ill do your mindees have to be before you send them home?

[2anddone]

I don’t mean the obvious instant phone call for sickness/diarrhoea but for colds/virus that has totally taken it out of them and all they want to do is lie on a couch, watch tv and sleep?
Makes it difficult as I only have this one child today so not sure whether to call mum or not!
She arrived ‘fine in herself’ and ‘full of beans’ after being full of cold and cough the last 2 days and hasn’t wanted to do anything since she arrived (has slept almost 3 hours and only been here 5!!)
Any advice would be appreciated Thank You

I think as she is your only minded today and doesn't appear upset or distressed you are doing no more than parent would at home I guess you could let parents know so they can choose to collect if they want personally I would be happy for my child to stay if not distressed or high temp

I usually work on the basis that if they can't join in activities then they need to go home but as you've only got the one, I'd keep them and have a quiet day at home.

If there is a temperature I call parents. If the child doesn't want to join in, cries a lot, is off their food. I call the parents and say that it's not urgent, but I feel that the child is not well enough to be with me. If they have whatever urgent meeting, or really can't pick up that's ok I put up with it, but I give them the option.

For sickness, diarrhoea or a high temperature I always ring home. Other than that it’s on a case by case basis. Yesterday I had three children who were all under the weather. They didn’t want to eat and literally just spent the entire day either sleeping or lying on the sofa. It was fine because they were all like that.
Today I had one of the same children, and two others. I called the parents of the ill child at 10am as he was truly miserable being dragged out to play group, and just wanted to be at home. It wouldn’t have been fair to have made the other two perfectly well mindees to do nothing all day just because one child was ill.
I do however think that I could have called all parents on Monday had I wanted to, but I knew it was a particularly important day for some of the parents at work.

I think if they aren’t happy to join in with general day to day activities then better off home

Unless all are the same and a sofa /tv day

Enwi - that sounds similar to the virus going around at the moment, no temp but off food stomach cramps nausea some have a bout of sickness others don't some loose stools it goes on for 2 weeks in some and spreads like wildfire.

For me the children have to be able to take part in a normal day if they cant they are too ill to be here. I still get parents argue that children cant be ill as there is no temp which is rubbish.