Sibling threw up - healthy one attends?

[treeholm]

I just don't understand why a parent who is home with a sick child would send the other child. They are home anyway, so shouldn't they be looking after their children? There is a chance the other child will get sick, and I'd rather give them a day of rest at home, just in case. Of course, I also think it is very strange that someone on maternity leave would send an older child to daycare as well. Could be a generation thing since I'm a grandma, but I never heard of such a thing until recently. I would have felt incredibly guilty sending my child somewhere if I were home.

[sunnydays]

Unfortunetly, it seems many parents these days don't feel they need to have two kids at home at once! They send the older one to daycare through mat leave and send the unsick kid to daycare if one is sick...I have had this happen to me many times. They say things like "it is so hard to have two kids home at once when one is sick"...I think these parents just haven't built up the stamina for it because they haven't had to. I can take care of 5 kids at once plus my own and yet many parents can't manage their own two. I don't exclude a healthy child, but I have often thought about this...I hate having the sibling come to daycare when I know the other one has the flu...then it's a waiting game to see if the healthy one will fall ill after infecting us all!

I just don't understand why a parent who is home with a sick child would send the other child. They are home anyway, so shouldn't they be looking after their children? There is a chance the other child will get sick, and I'd rather give them a day of rest at home, just in case. Of course, I also think it is very strange that someone on maternity leave would send an older child to daycare as well. Could be a generation thing since I'm a grandma, but I never heard of such a thing until recently. I would have felt incredibly guilty sending my child somewhere if I were home.

[Dreamalittledream]

Of course, I also think it is very strange that someone on maternity leave would send an older child to daycare as well. Could be a generation thing since I'm a grandma, but I never heard of such a thing until recently. I would have felt incredibly guilty sending my child somewhere if I were home.

. I had the fortune to time the birth of my second just as my oldest started school. It was nice to get a nap in in the afternoon when I was often up in the night with the little one. I currently have 2 part timers whose moms are on mat leave sharing a full-time spot (kind of nice because I get to see the little babies/siblings regularly too that will be starting with me as well when the time comes). I think by keeping their kids in daycare while on Mat leave it keeps their space, keeps the child in the routine, makes for a happier, more stimulated, social child, makes the adjustment to a new sibling a little easier (things are new at home, but same old at daycare...we all know how toddlers can resist change). I personally just don't know how families afford it. I remember things being pretty tight when I was on Mat. Leave!