In my contract I have allowed myself 10 sick/person/bereavement days paid. A lot of people get a certain amount of paid sick days and I feel I deserve them too...especially since it's THEIR kids that make me sick. Now in saying that, I have never ever taken that many sick days...maybe 3 a year. If I were to ever go over that 10 days, I reimburse the families. I don't get paid for my holidays and lose money when I want to take time off so I feel the least the parents can do is pay for a few sick days when their kid made me sick.