Do you let you kids miss school when they do not feel well?

Question

What are your rules about your kids staying home from school. Do they have to be running a feaver and vomiting to stay home. Do you send them anyway? What about when you were growing up. I incourage mine to go unless they are really sick. I do not want them to be the type of employee that always misses work.

Answer 1

Hell there has been times that I didn't want to go to work so I called my son out sick so I could stay home with him. I'd rather be with him then my co workers or boss.

Answer 2

I follow the same guidelines that my school follows when they send a sick child home from school: vomiting, lethargic, fever, bad cough.... generally showing symptoms of having a cold. If my daughter complains of a headache, but there are no fever or chills or anything, I give her some Tylenol and send her on her way.

I don't want her to think that if she is mad at school or something that she can say that she has a headache and is able to stay home from school. I want her to get the best education possible. But I also want her to be healthy. When she had bronchitis, she stayed home. When she had a little cough, I gave her some cough medicine and sent her to school with some Pedialyte. I did tell the teacher that she was feeling a little under the weather and to notify me if she said that she felt bad.

So yeah, those are the rules that I follow. I hope that this helps a little bit.

Answer 3

I am not as strict as most parents. If my son wakes up and is just tired or is just feeling down, I don't make him go to school. Just because a kid misses a few days of school, isn't going to make him a bad employee. He does awesome in school and is a good kid, so he gets rewarded with a day off now and then. He doesn't have to fake it, he knows he will get a break if he needs it. He doesn't abuse the privilege. I homeschool my daughter due to health reasons. Does this mean she won't make a good employee? No, I don't believe so. There's more than one way to raise a responsible, successful child who will succeed in the world. Who says going to a public school for hours and hours of repetitive work makes him a good student and employee? There's so many unnecessary things going on in the public schools. Doing it at home takes a lot less time. I have kids in both situations.
My dad only let me miss school if I was on my deathbed, I think that's why I'm so lenient. I remember what it felt like to never get a day off. To never get a break. Even when you grow up and have a real job, you need a "sick day" every now and then!! It makes life more bearable!!

Answer 4

Fever over 100 they stay home (school rule). Vomiting they stay home - with or with out fever. Otherwise I ask them to start the day and if they still feel very bad to call me. The only times I have received calls were when they had a fever or gotten sick at school (which is probably less than 3% of the time).

When they are at home, they stay in bed and maybe get one TV movie - otherwise rest.

Some days when I am not feeling that good, but not sick like above I make mild comments like I'm not felling to well, but I'm going to try at work and see how it goes. My son always remembers and asks me that night if I stayed all day, which I answer yes.

Answer 5

Well, my kids more or less have to be throwing up or running a fever to stay home. Otherwise I give them meds and send them to school with a note saying they have a cough or whatever and if they need call me..... I hate having them home unless it's needed but I also do allow once in a great while (like once every couple months) to stay home if their really stressed out and they need a break. It's about the only way that I can spend alone time with them since I have 3 kids....

Answer 6

I don't have any children yet, and I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, but when I was still in school, especially the last few years of high school, I did so well, always on honor roll and had really good grades that every once in a while I would ask my mom if I could stay home with her and just hang out. Usually she would let me, just as long as I knew what was going on in my classes. I had one friend who was always sick and out of school, I swear she would stay home from school with a big toe ache. Any way have a good day!

Answer 7

I wouldn't let them stay home if they pretended to be ill or sick but I would let them if they were honest and asked for a day off from school . I don't want my children to be the type of employee that always misses work but also I don't want them to be the type of person to afraid to say what he really needs and makes up excuses to avoid reality and responsibilities . Everyone needs a day off BUT he must deserve it and the parent knows if the child deserves it or not

Answer 8

when kid and i was sick.. my dad would wake up us and give us medication and he would take us to school.. and make us take medication in the morning so that we would not have ranning nose or sniff... But if the kids have fever then i think you would him to stay home because he give to another kid..and at one point i remember when i was little and i was in 4th grade they were doing this project.. I was not feel well all day.. I went to nurse office and she took my temp it was about 100 or 102.. So she said i have to send you home because you have fever.. and i was upset like i was crying... and didn't wanted to go.. but at that time we have big family that was living us.. so doesn't matter who was home but i was taken of because i was the youngest in the house.. but mostly my dad would pick me up from school.. but then my brother would say why can i stay home.. it was funny.. I get sick more then my brother when i was kid.. sometime i do not if tell the teacher when my head hurt...
You can tell when someone is sick and vomiting and has bad cold.... It really bad i can stay home but if not that bad and i just have to take medication and was send to school with medication..

Answer 9

If they are potentially contagious with something such as the flu, they need to stay home. You don't need to get everyone else's children sick. Besides, if they are really sick, they need rest and plenty of fluids, which they won't get at school. A body and mind cannot function if it is ill. With out rest they will only get worse or even develop something life threatening. In the event of a major illness, which evolved from a minor one that could have been taken care of by a day in bed, they will miss even more school (or work) than they would have needed to.
As for what kind of employee they will be, I wouldn't want someone with the flu working with me, cooking my food, handling my products, or shaking my hand. If your sick you need rest and to stay away from the rest of us healthy people!

Answer 10

My mom would let us stay home whenever we said we were sick, But staying home was no fun either. She made us stay in bed. If we got well enough by the afternoon, she would make us do chores. To top it all off, the next two nights we spent making up our school work. So we went a few days without our friends.
Now as a parent myself, I do the same thing!!!

Answer 11

Well, if they truly are sick and don't feel well, they should stay home. My parents are good parents and I know, even though I chose to stay home, that if I miss school, I may fall behind, as long as I don't make it a habit. Now, I had a headache this morning, and my parents gave me the decision to tough it out and go to school, or stay home and rest up. I'm mature enough and I don't want to drop out of school or fail at any cost. I give it my all every day and one day won't affect my trend that much. I don't know how to put this, but I can hold my own; I understand. I dunno... it's really hard to explain.