Sending Sick Kids to School
Every parent with school aged kids face the dilemma on whether or not to send their kids to school.
Today on Doctors – I got the answer:
Any temperature taken orally and is over 99.5 should be considered a fever and the child should be kept home.
Of course I was trying to hear the rest of the segment but obviously my family doesn’t deem my television time as being important – so I’ll just go out on a limb and say a few other things that warrant keeping a child home from school might be:
Screaming squirts
Puking up a lung
Chills, extreme fatigue and icky wet coughs
The latter symptoms would run in combination of course. I wouldn’t keep a kid home with just a cough – but when it teams up with any of the other symptoms, that can just spell one big mess, literally.
What are some of the reasons you find to be solid excuses for keeping a sick kid home? And while we’re at it, do you have any tips on getting other members of the family to respect your television time and shut the hell up?
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My friend sent me a really neat gift for my kids and me. It is called a Germy Wormy. It reduces the spread of germs as it is a “disposable sleeve to protect clothes” and is a great tool to teach my kids to cough and sneeze in their elbow instead of their hands. Check out their website. http://www.germywormy.com
They have a fun for kids puppet show, activites, and a place to order the “arm sleeve”.
recently kept my teen home due to being so dizzy that she couldn’t hold her head up. No fever just really dizzy.
In regards to the t.v. time–let me know when you figure out the answer, cause I haven’t figured out the trick yet.