Sick Child Care: Myself
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Sick Child Care
Asked by L.E. from Los Angeles
on June 11, 2010
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Hi, All,
What do you do if you work or attend school full-time, spouse is not around and your young children are mildly ill (with a slight fever, runny nose, cough,...
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- Find a Babysitter that you trust (retained ahead of time)... and have her care for your child if sick. Some babysitters/Nannys will do this. Of course nothing is free...
- Well after they are done being sick, I would look at weening your 3 year old, then getting him to sleep in his own bed. Back to being sick... I would look at gettin...
- Wow 17 hours in 1 week. Thats enough to make anyone insane (no pun intended towards your psych background LOL). I just wanted to suggest taking a multi-vitamin to help...
Sick Child Care
Asked by K.H. from Dallas
on June 7, 2006
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I was wondering what do you do with your kids when they are sick and you are working. I have yet to find someone to come care for them. My husband and I have been sw...
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- When my children were younger I used Presbyterian Hospital's KidMed. I don't know if the set up is the same now but it used to be that you called in the morning and a ...
- Your best bet is to find a good at-home sitter for those sick days. My daughter goes to a daycare facility but on those sick days when I have to go in to work, she go...
- Depending in what your child have, I will be willing to care for him/her in my home day care. Let me know. ____@____.com
Child Care for Sick Children
Asked by L.M. from New York
on January 10, 2012
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Hi,
I need some input here....My husband and I work full time and my 4 year old son attends day care/school. The days that he is sick we dont have 'Grandma' (or an...
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- both sittercity.com and care.com will have caregivers that will specify that they are ok with "sick care". I have done that before when it was a time that I couldn't ...
- Any employed person with kids has the right to stay home when those kids are sick. What I really recommend is that you sit down with your boss, explain the situation, ...
- I'm afraid I don't have an answer for sick care, other than to try to network with a moms' group or in your community to see if there's someone who would be willing to...
Day Care
Asked by C.B. from Miami
on March 21, 2007
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I recently in January took my seventeen month old son out of in home day care to a facility so that he could get more of a social interaction, but since i have put him...
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- Hi C., I had a similar situation. My son just turned a year old when he went from staying at home with Grandma to going to a daycare. The first 2-3 months it seem...
- My daughter spent her first two years with a runny nose :-( People insist on taking their children to daycare even though they are sick. It isn't him! The word is ...
- Welcome to the wonderful world of daycare facilities!! My kid has been in one (3 days a week) since January and has been sick non-stop since. He has been on three di...
Day Care
Asked by J.H. from Missoula
on April 6, 2010
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I have a question for moms using daycare. My issue is that we get charged even if my son does not attend for the day (or week). We had brought it up last year when w...
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- If she has this issue covered in her policies, then there's not much you can do. However, I agree with you...This is a business she is running. She is, to a certain...
- It is my understanding that it is common business practice, that you get charged for the time that your child in enrolled for, no matter if he attends or not. All day ...
- For our d/c lady (also a very small business) she has negotiated a certain number of 'vacation' and 'sick' days per year. Total of 7, I believe, may be 10. If she's ...
Sick of Being Sick
Asked by M.F. from Minneapolis
on April 11, 2008
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We are going through our sixth illness with our son (whom is in daycare fulltime). He is always sick and it lasts and lasts and than we go a week or two and he's sick...
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- I surely would pull the child out! That's one less expense if you stay home. Depending on what kind of work you do, you probably could find a job in the evenings. T...
- it's actually this winter has been horrible for it. my family and the child i watch has been sick all winter. we will go a week then one of us sick again. we have gott...
- My kids have never been in daycare, but my daughter is in kindergarten and seems to be bringing home a lot of little illnesses this year too. I have never been sick s...
Why Are We All So Sick?!
Asked by S.J. from St. Louis
on April 14, 2011
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I am beyond frustrated. I almost have to laugh at this point because it is so ridiculous.
My family has been sick a total of 12 times in the past few months. And ...
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- In our area, every time the schools decrease the number of allowed sick days "everyone" gets really sick for that year because parents send their children to school si...
- You're going to get good advice from lots of people. When my husband and I both worked, we had to take turns for the kids and we went to work sick for ourselves (unles...
- We started taking supplements 16 years ago and it greatly improved the whole family's health. We also switched to nontoxic cleaning and laundry products. Let me know...
Sick
Asked by C.S. from Tampa
on March 2, 2008
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I got my 5 month old son sick! =( Should i give him some pedelite or juice instead of just formula?
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- Hi C.. Do you think that he is dehydrated? If so then you might want to take him to the doctor. You will know if he is dehydrated if he does not have a wet diaper fo...
- It depends if he is throwing up or has diareah give him pedelite. If it is just a cold the doctor will probably tell you to continue the formula. That is what my dau...
- probably not, talk to your pediatrician is the safest thing to do.
Too Sick or Not?
Asked by A.S. from Minneapolis
on December 13, 2010
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Hi Moms.
I am a daycare provider and recently I have had some pretty sick kids coming to my house. I'm sure I am going to catch some grief for asking this but I wa...
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- A.: You should NOT be catching ANY grief for this!! You are operating a BUSINESS!!! You are NOT doing this out of the kindness of your heart. Day Care's do not ...
- The daycare I sent my son to had a wonderful sick policy. They did not freak out about contagious diseases--figuring that if a kid was sick, they'd probably already sp...
- As a single Mom I can understand your issue. Working Moms depend upon their daycare provider as much as the daycare provider depends upon them. I would not be happy ...
Sick Child and Missing Work
Asked by B.H. from Detroit
on June 14, 2010
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*My son is sick and can't go to daycare. He is wheezing with bronchilits which he seems to catch about once every six months or so. Anyway? I have to take off work a...
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- Whew! Did you ask your Mom? How do you know she wouldn't take both kids? If she wouldn't take 2 sick little ones, and your sister asked first...oh well! I have to ...
- This is so tough. Why is it that moms are always expected to take time off to watch the kids when they're sick? I make 4x what my husband does, but yet when the kids a...
- I understand it's difficult to ask for help, but it sounds like you already answered your own question. It's unfair to be resentful for something you didn't ask for......
