How do you deal with sick days

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In the last 2 weeks back at school since half term (which itself was 2 weeks) I have been phoned in the day 3 times to collect a sick child & had 2 further entire days when I didn’t send them in.

How do you deal with this if you work? And before someone comes on to say school isn’t childcare yes I know, but I need to work to pay my bills. How do you make this work?
Thanks in advance for anyone with helpful suggestions

A mixture of flexi time, parental leave (which is unpaid unfortunately), grandparents helped out when they could. Currently dealing with the first year in childcare and the sickness seems constant.

An understanding employer and just doing the best you can.

Honestly? I will WFH and as long as it's normal cold/flu type stuff I'll rely on lots of TV time for DS and check on him sporadically. Screen time rules go out the window.

And yes, before anyone says anything, my workplace do know I do this.

Same here for my primary aged son. Unfortunatly with my toddler it's emergence leave or last minute annual leave in my lartners case.

Luckily I have a pretty reasonable line manager who is very sympathetic to the never ending nursery / school lurgy

If you have a partner I would juggle it so that you take it in turns to take time off work if a child is ill. That's what I used to do with my husband when our children were small. Must be very hard for single parents.

Annual leave. And once that's used up,.emergency leave, which is unpaid

Whoever has the least busy day makes sure they don’t die. I am employed but normally wfh. I keep an eye on them while working or I take AL (my employer would always rather I keep working because there is no one else who can do my job). Dh is self employed, so he has a mostly admin day if home with dc. Basically, whoever can more take a day off or have a slow day does and whoever doesn’t works. To be fair, across both of ours, it would be be unusual to have more than a week off in a year. Unless it’s d&v or something majorly infectious, our schools are twitchy about them being off ill due to attendance targets so they mostly go in unless on death’s door. So between Dh and I we can easily manage 4 days each a year.