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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 1:37:29 GMT
Just curious...
Say you have three kids, all under 10. Three of them are in the same martial arts class. One is sick (with a fever and some kind and nasty respiratory bug) and cannot participate. Your spouse is not available, so you are the only transportation/caregiver. Do you - skip class for all? Take the sick one to class but not participate? Something else?
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Post by melanell on Nov 17, 2015 1:39:40 GMT
I'd see if there was anyone else who might be able & willing to take the healthy two kids to class. Otherwise, we'd all stay home. I personally wouldn't choose to take the sick one out. That's assuming that the parent & sick kid would be staying during the class.
If the parent doesn't stay for the class, then depending on how the sick kid felt, I would probably be willing to drop off the healthy two and come back or wait in the car and cuddle and read to the sick one while the other two were inside.
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Post by scrapaddie on Nov 17, 2015 1:42:19 GMT
Do not take the sick child to class! Do you really want to infect other children? Is there somebody else in the class that you can ask to pick up your kids ( The healthy ones ) is there someone that can stay with a sick child? Otherwise, they may all have to miss class
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Post by cyndijane on Nov 17, 2015 1:43:14 GMT
I would keep them all home. Even if the sick one isn't contagious, I don't want to comfort a sick kid out and about if I don't have to.
Now, he's not contagious, and it's a competition or something for the other two, I'd do my best to find a ride for the two non-sick kids. But, of course, ages come into play.
I usually try to simplify my life, though, not cause more chaos. But that's just me.
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Post by littlemama on Nov 17, 2015 1:44:06 GMT
Stay home with all of them. Chances are the other two will be sick soon anyway. No reason to expose anyone else.
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Post by janeliz on Nov 17, 2015 1:45:50 GMT
In the situation you've presented, I would just stay home with all three.
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 17, 2015 1:48:05 GMT
I'd see if there was anyone else who might be able & willing to take the healthy two kids to class. Otherwise, we'd all stay home. I personally wouldn't choose to take the sick one out. That's assuming that the parent & sick kid would be staying during the class. If the parent doesn't stay for the class, then depending on how the sick kid felt, I would probably be willing to drop off the healthy two and come back or wait in the car and cuddle and read to the sick one while the other two were inside. I think this covers it nicely.
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Post by Country Ham on Nov 17, 2015 1:53:30 GMT
One sick we all have to stay home. I am a karate mom myself but it's 20 miles one way so it's impossible to find volunteers to transport a kid.
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Post by meridon on Nov 17, 2015 1:56:42 GMT
Probably everyone would just stay home. If one has it, chances are at least one of the others will, too in another day or two, so we'd stay home and watch a movie or something and everyone go to bed early to get extra sleep and try to ward off the germs.
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Post by stingfan on Nov 17, 2015 2:07:33 GMT
I'd do what I could to get the two healthy kids to the class. I have 4 kids and face this sort of thing on occasion. I can't keep the healthy ones home every time another one gets sick thinking that they'll all get it eventually. There are times where only one kid gets something even though it seems highly contagious. You can just never tell.
I'd probably drop off the 2 healthy ones and go back home with the other. Or, if it was far, I'd just wait in the car with the sick one. Of course, it's not super-cold here yet, so that answer might change if I had to stay in the car. Generally, I've been able to get kids ride in these sorts of cases before.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 2:12:45 GMT
I always made sure to network with the other parents so when one was sick I had the name/number of someone to call who might be willing to give the healthy kids a ride. And I was willing to take a family on occassion as well. But, my kids were growing up in the military circle so a solo parent was a frequent event and we relied heavily on each other.
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Post by epeanymous on Nov 17, 2015 2:13:27 GMT
I have a bunch of kids and it isn't the case that if one kid gets sick, everyone gets sick. So if I had a way to send the non-sick kids (my mother lives here, e.g., and might be able to take them), I would do that.
If I didn't, however, we'd all stay home. I'm not taking a sick kid out amongst other kids.
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Post by SabrinaP on Nov 17, 2015 2:14:59 GMT
If dropping the healthy kids off isn't an option, we sould all stay home.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 2:21:16 GMT
Even IF all the kids do eventually end up with whatever, it just means one kid is sick one week, kid two is sick the second week and kid three was sick the third week. So if I kept them all home because one was sick they would all end up missing three weeks of their activity. There was plenty of times one kid got sick and the other two might not, or just one of the other two would. It was never an absolute given that they all would end up sick.
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Post by kellybelly77 on Nov 17, 2015 2:23:53 GMT
This happened recently to the parents of one of my dd's friends. 3 kids, one sick and we were all scheduled to participate in a music performance at a parade. Mom ended up bringing all 3, including the kid with the stomach flu. Gross!! I was ticked about being exposed by this kid so I would have to say that all 3 would have to stay home.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2015 3:58:13 GMT
Thanks for the replies. This was a family that's in my son's Judo class. The mom brought the sick one along and he was coughing up a storm (and only sporadically covering his mouth) in the observation area, which was full of parents and siblings watching the class. It wasn't ideal.
I have an only child, so don't deal with situations like this as a parent and was wondering what parents o more than one would do.
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Post by Butterfly Momma on Nov 17, 2015 4:18:55 GMT
If dropping the healthy kids off isn't an option, we sould all stay home. Exactly that. And in the last 2 weeks a couple of my kids have missed activities for that exact reason.
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