Have you let your kid play with other kids at the playground or elsewhere even when your child is sick? Does that make a bad mom or dad?
Parents Who Let Their Sick Kid Play With Others Should Be Fined
Kids get sick
a lot. Especially toddlers. They are exploring, putting things in their
mouths all the time, sometimes they even like to lick things like
shopping carts. It's terribly challenging to keep a kid from catching something. But there is something we as parents can do to prevent other kids from getting sick.
You know, help another parent avoid a week of sleepless night, Stage 4
clingers, and crusty booger snot stains all over everything in the
house. And that's to keep your kid cooped up in the house for the
entirety of the sickness, and even however long after they may still be
contagious.
And yet it's something so many parents don't do. Because that's damn near impossible. But the worse offense is actually letting your sick child play with other kids. Why, parents, why?!
It's clear we can't keep our kids quarantined for every little illness. I've taken my kids food shopping with me when they had colds. Yes, runny noses and all. There are just times where I have to do something and have no one to watch the kids. So they must come along. Of course if they had Chicken Pox or something extremely worrisome I wouldn't expose them to the outside world ... or rather expose the outside world to them. But for the times they are only a little bit of sick, they have been out and about with me. This is why I am now vigilant about cleaning off the part of the grocery cart where kids sit. I bet you'll be more careful now, too, if you weren't already.
One of the worse offenses a parent can make against another parent and perhaps even more than putting down their parenting style is letting your viral little hotbed of disease play in the sandbox with the other kids, or visit the children's museum or the library or actually set up a playdate and spent time coughing, sneezing, and drooling the germs all over the place virtually guaranteeing the other kids will get sick, too. Might as well just bring the tainted lollipops so we at least get a little serving of candy with your plague.
Put down my parenting style all you want -- I can ignore you. Pass us whatever's going around because you're letting your knowingly sick kid play with others is not something anyone can ignore. Like I mentioned it's basically a sentence of sleepless nights, Stage 4 clingers, and boogers boogers boogers everywhere.
It happens, though. I know. I can't get angry. I'm not. There have been times I was in complete denial my child was sick -- boogers and fever and unexplained tears and all. And that's because of how awful it can be when our little loves are not feeling well. I may have even been guilty of spreading our sick to undeserving playdates. So for the times we have oops! accidentally done such a thing, the only way to make up for the crime is *drum roll* offer to babysit so those parents get a deserved night out. Or make them your best banana bread. Or both.
Have you let your kid play with other kids at the playground or elsewhere even when your child is sick? Does that make a bad mom or dad?
IMHO if you are so fearful of your kid getting ill on a playground then keep your kids in your yard...
my son has terrible allergies from sept-november and again from feb to april... so if he's running around with a snotty nose am I going to be fined how does one determine ill from deviant from normal? this is just stupid-- if I'm concerned about other kids at the play ground mine leave with me PERIOD I dont impose my views on others--the germs have been here long before us and will be here long after humans are wiped out
I don't agree with fines.
My 4yo also has seasonal allergies and he has the runny nose, itchy eyes and just looks rough some days but he's not contagious and my 9yo has periodic fevers that are just fevers. He comes along still when we go places even the plauground where he may not play much but he doesn't want to be home in bed all the time (when the fevers are bad, he does and we stay home)
Why is it normal for kids to be sick???
Instead boost their immune system and allow them to be healthy.
It is NOT normal for kids to be sixk all the time.
Not normal to have a low immune system that causes ear infection after ear infection....
Not normal to have tubes in your ears, or no tonsils....
And for treating allergies, just fix the cause... Give them probiotics and heal their gut.... Then you would have no allergies.....
And for those who vaccinate, keep your kids home after they get shots.
The varicella vaccine states you should keep your kid away from others for six weeks after the vaccine, as you shed during that time.
If I know my kids are sick, I would not be taking them to a playground or anywhere else like that. I keep them home and try to get themfeeling better, faster. Luckily my kids are hardly ever sick. We do all occasionally have allergy problems from all the dirt and dust in the air though so we may sometimes have a bit of runny nose or cough or something. If that happens we will still go out places. But never if they are actually sick and could be contagious.
I don't have any experience with the ear infections, tubes, tonsil problems, etc., but I have known people with kids that do have some of those probems and it doesn't seem like it is just as easy to fix as you make it seem. True those things are not normal, but that doesn't mean they aren't real problems either. Also as far as the varicella vaccine saying to keep away from others for six weeks, that is really not reasonable at all. Most people can't keep a kid out of school, daycare, grocery stores, etc for 6 weeks straight.
Quoting angelmama081007:
Why is it normal for kids to be sick???
Instead boost their immune system and allow them to be healthy.
It is NOT normal for kids to be sixk all the time.
Not normal to have a low immune system that causes ear infection after ear infection....
Not normal to have tubes in your ears, or no tonsils....
And for treating allergies, just fix the cause... Give them probiotics and heal their gut.... Then you would have no allergies.....And for those who vaccinate, keep your kids home after they get shots.
The varicella vaccine states you should keep your kid away from others for six weeks after the vaccine, as you shed during that time.
It may not be reasonable, but it is a side effect that you should be telling people that your child is around. That is dangerous (and irresponsible, therefore you should be liable for those who get sick when you knowingly infect them) to knowingly expose others to an illness that you know you are shedding. You are also going against medical advice at this point... Along with causing more sickness in the places your child goes.... You can't be upset with others if they have kids that are sick near yours, if you don't give the same courtesy.....
I don't either as my kids have never been sick before, but it is because of their high immune system. The problem with kids that are sick all the time, is that you are not solving the problem, which is the lowered immune system. If you were to fix that, your child would be extremely healthy. Instead, parents continue to vaccinate their child, which continues to lower their immune system, which causes more problems... The real problem is when you don't fix the actual problem, but "fix" the side effect, the ear infection. Instead of healing the immune system, you treat the ear infection, which doesn't allow you to get better, but push the illness deeper inside you, where it manifests in another manner....
Quoting gcstar42:
I don't have any experience with the ear infections, tubes, tonsil problems, etc., but I have known people with kids that do have some of those probems and it doesn't seem like it is just as easy to fix as you make it seem. True those things are not normal, but that doesn't mean they aren't real problems either. Also as far as the varicella vaccine saying to keep away from others for six weeks, that is really not reasonable at all. Most people can't keep a kid out of school, daycare, grocery stores, etc for 6 weeks straight.
Quoting angelmama081007:
Why is it normal for kids to be sick???
Instead boost their immune system and allow them to be healthy.
It is NOT normal for kids to be sixk all the time.
Not normal to have a low immune system that causes ear infection after ear infection....
Not normal to have tubes in your ears, or no tonsils....
And for treating allergies, just fix the cause... Give them probiotics and heal their gut.... Then you would have no allergies.....And for those who vaccinate, keep your kids home after they get shots.
The varicella vaccine states you should keep your kid away from others for six weeks after the vaccine, as you shed during that time.
no..we dont go to the playground if we are sick...normally home eating soup and watching cartoons together
Quoting angelmama081007:Why is it normal for kids to be sick???
Instead boost their immune system and allow them to be healthy.
It is NOT normal for kids to be sixk all the time.
Not normal to have a low immune system that causes ear infection after ear infection....
Not normal to have tubes in your ears, or no tonsils....
And for treating allergies, just fix the cause... Give them probiotics and heal their gut.... Then you would have no allergies.....
And for those who vaccinate, keep your kids home after they get shots.
The varicella vaccine states you should keep your kid away from others for six weeks after the vaccine, as you shed during that time.
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