Would you send your kid?

justEK

You have a completely healthy 5 year old child. Would you send your child to preK if you and everyone else in your family were down with the stomach bug? Keep in mind that you would have to go to the school while you were sick (along with the baby).

 

GettinNervous

Yes.

NewNameSameGame

Yep.  Absolutely.  Keep them away from the germs if possible.....OR let them go when they are well knowing they will be sick and miss school probably in a few days.  So, yes.  More rest for mama too.

gibs

What?  You're wanting to drag a sick baby to a pre-K class??  Are you nuts? 

justEK

gibs:

What?  You're wanting to drag a sick baby to a pre-K class??  Are you nuts? 

Nope. Not me. I don't have a baby.

gibs

justEK:

Keep in mind that you would have to go to the school while you were sick (along with the baby).

 

then what the F does this mean?

J&A2008

Ummm,

keep a healthy child home with a bunch of sickly people, or send him to school away from the sickness....

hikerbeth

Once I was too sick to even make the car ride to take DD to preschool (and she was healthy/over the bug), so she had to stay home.  I would have taken her if I could have made it without puking the whole way.

I would try to find a ride for the kid if at all possible.

goodheartedmommy

IDK--I assume that when one of us has something, we will all get it. If they were exposed, sending them to school won't likely help them avoid the germs.

I felt awful about how our tummy bug went--there were 3-4 days in between everyone getting sick, so I'd think it was over, and it would hit the next wave of people. I unintentionally exposed a lot of other people and got them sick. I'm not saying I'd stay home for a week, but I don't know if there's a right answer or not. I'm just saying that sending them to school is most likely only exposing other people and isn't keeping the child from getting sick.

Littlejen22

gibs:

justEK:

Keep in mind that you would have to go to the school while you were sick (along with the baby).

 

then what the F does this mean?

I assume that justEK was calling the 5yo a baby.

justEK

I was not calling the 5 year old a baby.

You, your DH and your 15 month old baby are all sick with the stomach bug. Your 5 year old is not showing signs of the bug. You are a SAHM and have to bring the baby with you when you drop off the 5 year old. 

I am asking because this happened. The mom let many of us know they had the stomach bug. I understand that it's ridiculous to keep a perfectly healthy child home from preschool. I do. 

But like GHM said, it's so contagious that you can just assume the 5 year old will get it(which she did). You can still be contagious without any symptoms.

I guess I am asking to see what others would have done. I can see how things might work out when they are older, though. No way can you make them miss so much school.

lsufan

I don't know that I would go in if I was that sick, but I have brought my oldest to school when his brother was staying with me because he had a stomach bug.  

gibs

It's fine to bring a baby out of the house to take a 5 year old to school and drop the 5 year old off, if necessary b/c someone can't watch the baby at home, but it's not okay if it's a coop school and the sick baby has to stay.

Perhaps if your first post had been more clear you would have gotten answers to your actual question.

caitlinsmom

The only way to avoid exposing anyone to anything is to lock yourself in isolation all the time.

You don't know if the healthy child is going to get it, he may not so keeping him home accomplishes nothing in that case. 

 

The stomach bug hit my daughter during Christmas break, we all stayed home for 2 days and guess what, no one else got it.  According to school guidelines, as long as he doesn't have a fever, isn't throwing up of having diarrhea he can go to school.

 

I'd take him, hold the baby so he's not touching anything, get in and out quickly.

Jodi&Joe

Everyone gets sick.  It's part of life.  I would not keep my healthy kid home - it just doesn't make sense.  That and if I'm sick, and my baby is sick, you bet yourass I'm going to send the healthy kid to school so it's one less kid to deal with.

 

 

shopgirl78

Yes.   Both the boys have gotten sick twice where they had to be out of daycare.   We still sent DD to school and she did not get it either time.  It could be because she was also a daycare child and has already gotten everything under the sun.  DH takes DD to school (walks) while I stay with the boys until he gets home.  Luckily, DH and I didn't get the stomach flu either although we did get the cold.