Please don't send your sick kid to daycare!!!

[madmom]

Yeah and what do you do with the parents that are all " Oh little (dck) was fine all night long, I can't believe he still has diarrhea! all wide eyed and innocent sounding. I have sent little ones home then told the symptoms were over just to have them re-occur that afternoon. So hard to argue with parents

[mickyc]

Yeah and what do you do with the parents that are all " Oh little (dck) was fine all night long, I can't believe he still has diarrhea! all wide eyed and innocent sounding. I have sent little ones home then told the symptoms were over just to have them re-occur that afternoon. So hard to argue with parents

I just had a little one in my care who always had very loose stool and very frequent (talked to mom about possibly an allergy to dairy but she just brushed it off). It was always hard to tell when it was just a regular bowel movement or if it was indeed the beginning of diarrhea. What I started doing was texting mom after the 2nd watery poop to give her a heads up. After No. 3 she would get a call/text to pick up. If the child was totally fine otherwise then I would allow her to come back the next day (mom always would drop off and say she was fine and had no more poops! YA RIGHT!!). The deal was the next day after the first watery poop she would need to get picked up ASAP. Mom finally started keeping her home. She ended up being the one who just gave notice and found another daycare. Not sure if that was why but I know I certainly do not miss all the poopy diapers all day everyday!