Pre-schoolers - do you send them to school with minor ailments?

[Anna8888]

My daughter is nearly 3. She had a runny nose yesterday and we stayed inside and warm as much as possible. She had a bad night coughing and I didn't send her to pre-school this morning.

My feeling is that at this age they are not missing much and get better quickly if they are kept at home until they are better. They don't infect anyone else with their germs and their coughs/colds don't get bad.

What do other people do and why?

I do exactly the same as you. I can't bare the thought of DD1 feeling unwell at school.

Thanks Belgo

My sister does this too. But I have this niggling feeling that I'm being over protective

no not at all! In fact, we got a letter home from school requesting parents not to send their children in when they were sick - isn't that the saddest thing that some parents need to be told this?

Here in France so many parents have no alternative childcare that I'm not sure schools would dare do that

DS loves pre-school and given the choice of sitting around at home or being distracted by the entertainment of his friends and school life he/we choose that he still goes. He is the main carrier of germs in to our home so we figure the other children all have whatever cold it is anyway. One dose of Calpol and he's ready to go. It's only a morning and he forgets he's ill.