What if YOUR child is sick?

[playfelt]

Rarely is it my child that starts it in the sense that at least one other daycare child has had the symptoms already. But even if a child started getting sick at care as someone mentioned it has spread around by the time mom picks up. For me it isn't so much about spreading the germs that I don't want the daycare kids here is the cleaning up after them. I don't have a choice doing it for my own child. I normally just change the course of the day staying upstairs where there are less toys to wash and closer to water/toilet etc. My child is kept as far from the others as possible and certain toys are off limits to all. Generally if mine is sick they just want to lay on the couch anyways not get down in the midst of the gang and play so it then just becomes my job to keep the other kids away from bothering my child.

Most parents do not like taking time off when they don't have to so rarely have I had a parent want to keep their child home as they would prefer to save their days for when/if their child gets it. All of my families know that the germs are out there in the community and coming or not coming is no guarantee their child hasn't been exposed to something from somewhere already too.

At the end of the day I would tell all parents what happened and let them decide about coming the next day. I am open but they have the choice not to bring their child.