Sick kids

You know, this really bothers me. I can't even describe how much. I had a friend who I use to babysit her kids for on occassion because I stayed home with my daughter and worked from home at night. They were constantly coming over sick and we would all get sick. It was hard, but I finally said something to my friend. It is weird though too becuase my daughter just started full day prek this year. The second week of school I kept her home for two days. She had a nasty cough, high fever, and runny nose. You would think I committed a crime by keeping her out of school so soon. It was weird. My thinking is that I don't want sick kids around my daughter, so why on earth would I send her around others when she is sick.

Oh that really sucks! I hate it too when kids with my kids were sick and their parent never care to mention it to me. as for your experience, fever is not contagious, fever is the reaction of the body when a foreign body is present, our anti bodies act upon to it and thus raising the temperature of the body, that is why we have fever when we have infection, our anti bodies fights the infection and cause body temperature to raise, have no worries! and yeas some parents are that insensitive, and what I do to prevent my kids from getting virus and bacteria from their playmate is I give them a lot of Vitamin C to boost their immune system

Hi mflower, my own son is home from school with an ear infection at the moment bless and has been burning up with it too. As a parent I will always let another parent know if my child is ill but most of the time they are infectious before whatever is wrong with them comes out anyway. I would always mix young children with chickenpox so they can catch whilst young as absolutely awful to get when older and then shingles too. Huggles. Ellie :D