Help Me with my NEW Sick Policy

[Momof4]

Carla, your post is interesting but most of us are not licensed in Ontario, not all, but most. That's why we need support forums like this one so that we can ask questions of other daycare providers to make sure we are all being fair with our clients.

I agree with kangaroomama again that sometimes you get a child who just seems to be sick nonstop but if it's always a virus there is nothing you can do. I had a baby start here who had nonstop ear infections but the parents got him on antibiotics quickly and there wasn't much danger of him spreading it to the others. So I let him come except for the days when he had a fever at the beginning which gave us the clue he was getting another ear infection of course.

I find that children seem to be nonstop sick when they are 1 because they are being exposed to all the new germs out in the world after having their parents protecting them for the first year at home. At least that's the way it is for me because most children start with me at about 10-11 months old.