How ill do your kids have to be before you keep them at home?

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Just wondering. You know when they are just a bit under the weather and need a duvet day - do you keep them off then or do they have to be really ill before you consider it?

infectious and / or ill enough to want to lie on the sofa all day and not move. Basicaly if they are breathing they are trying it on!

My ds refuses to stay at home unless he is chucking his guts and is too drowsy to concentrate!!! But he is only 3, does morning nursery and is ASD. Stubborn little toad.

ill, so the routine is see how you are once you've got dressed, had some breakfast etc..

and an explicit reference to any activities planned which will have to be cancelled if ill

If I feel they are under the weather then yes I do keep them off. Always when they have a temperature, bug, tonsillitus that kind of thing.

If it's a very mild cold I don't but a heavy cold then yes I do.

I would transport mine to school unconscious in a wheelbarrow if I had to.

only if they are dieing.
any child who has the energy to moan about how ill they are, and how they cant go to school, and what a bad mother they have, etc, doesnt need to be kept off school

Lottie has thrown up in the morning, then seemed fine so gone to school, well nursery.

I only keep them off if they are really toxic, ie throwing up or diarrhoea or if they've been ill most of the night and are too tired to face school. They've never had anything infectious yet. Our school has a general policy of sending them in unless they are so miserable and ill that they wouldn't gain anything from being in school.

TBH I only ever keep her off if she's really really ill or I know that nursery will take one look and say no-way (which usual equates to the same thing). I'm evil.

They have to be visibly ill or within the 24 hour exclusion period for having been sick.

First meeting with new boss who had travelled 400 miles to meet me last week. DH unable to cancel a meeting. DD said she felt ill but I thought I would have to send her to school. She was sick at 8.15am so couldn't. Boss said she would come to my house so picked her up from the station at 1pm. DD was promptly sick all over the car on the way back - some first impression!!

Only if really unwell or too out of sorts to eat breakfast. dd can throw up at will with a cough so don't necessarily keep her off if it is just that.

For a mild cold I send him in. Temperature tends to mean stay at home. He is year 1. In reception his teacher said she's prefer them to stay at home if they were ill as she doesn't want the whole class going down with their illness. Or to be looking after a sick child all day.

depends what I'm doing. if I don't feel like work and it's a work day, I'll let them stay off for fairly minor stuff, like headache, bad cold, tummy ache. If I need to be in work they have to be definitely poorly i.e. temp or being sick, or rash or something def infectious. Tbh mine hardly ever want to stay off, for some reason. Not like me when I was a child! I'm a natural part-timer!

im always glad to send mine to school and never keep them off unless ita their b day ( 8y last thurs- had half day and took her to the cinema ) or they are really ill . dd1 was sick at school and i went to get her at 2.30pm . will keep her off tmw but bk thurs . im just to busy in day to have my 2 eldest at home under my feet unless they are really needing to be at home or the school insists lol

Temperature, vomit, runs, other than that they go to school. Thy do stay home for the following day as well though to allow them to be properly better. They moan about staying home an extra day but I think they need it.