Childcare and Sickness
The frustrations and solutions
It’s something that every working parent dreads… illness descends on your home and germs don’t seem to care that you have a meeting at 10 and a childcare provider that frowns on sniffling, vomiting, and the runs. There are only so many sick days you can take because of your child before your boss starts to roll their eyes (which is rude because, you know… parents have to parent). Yet, every time you try to sneak your sick child by the childcare providers they turn into the Hulk and throw you out on your ear.
So, what’s a parent supposed to do when they have a sick child and childcare problems?
The Petri Dish of Daycare
The most important thing that you can do is learn when it’s safe to …show more content…
It’s fairly common for a child to pick up a cold (or respiratory infection) once a month… ugh, even more ugh when you consider the fact that the symptoms stick around for up to three weeks. So, they might get sick once a month for three weeks every month and we wonder why they throw tantrums. Am I right?
The good news is it’s safe to send them to daycare provided they have no fever, energy and are having no issues eating and drinking. Coughing, though, means the infection can spread.
There’s another issue at play, often the guidelines are misinterpreted (by parents and staff) especially when it comes to the 24-hour antibiotic rule. That means nothing if your child has a respiratory infection because that could have been a viral infection which means they can still spread it.
The Solution
If we lived in an ideal world daycare facilities (or employers) would provide care facilities for children who shouldn’t be around other kids. Even better, a magical unicorn would arrive at your door (without so much as a phone call because it just knows) and would care for your unwell child and take care of all the housework, too. I think we can agree that most of those solutions are a fairy tale, though, there are childcare facilities that have sick
The frustrations and solutions
It’s something that every working parent dreads… illness descends on your home and germs don’t seem to care that you have a meeting at 10 and a childcare provider that frowns on sniffling, vomiting, and the runs. There are only so many sick days you can take because of your child before your boss starts to roll their eyes (which is rude because, you know… parents have to parent). Yet, every time you try to sneak your sick child by the childcare providers they turn into the Hulk and throw you out on your ear.
So, what’s a parent supposed to do when they have a sick child and childcare problems?
The Petri Dish of Daycare
The most important thing that you can do is learn when it’s safe to …show more content…
It’s fairly common for a child to pick up a cold (or respiratory infection) once a month… ugh, even more ugh when you consider the fact that the symptoms stick around for up to three weeks. So, they might get sick once a month for three weeks every month and we wonder why they throw tantrums. Am I right?
The good news is it’s safe to send them to daycare provided they have no fever, energy and are having no issues eating and drinking. Coughing, though, means the infection can spread.
There’s another issue at play, often the guidelines are misinterpreted (by parents and staff) especially when it comes to the 24-hour antibiotic rule. That means nothing if your child has a respiratory infection because that could have been a viral infection which means they can still spread it.
The Solution
If we lived in an ideal world daycare facilities (or employers) would provide care facilities for children who shouldn’t be around other kids. Even better, a magical unicorn would arrive at your door (without so much as a phone call because it just knows) and would care for your unwell child and take care of all the housework, too. I think we can agree that most of those solutions are a fairy tale, though, there are childcare facilities that have sick