Stay home

I think it is very self serving when parents do not take any concern for others who their actions will most likely affect.

I have worked in Child Care and the main excuses coming from parents was.. I can't afford days off or if I don't work, I don't get paid. What about all the other parents who didn't think like that and had to stay home with their sick child because of other selfish parents? Keep your child home because they need their Mum's.

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Always stay home when sick this is the law not written

My kids never went to daycare that’s what’s grandma is for .. !!

Stay home. That includes adults

Keep child at home

Heck no! Keep your sick child home

Definitely the child should be kept home. Unfair to inflict their germs on others

My son has a weakened immune system and every winter without fail he gets sick from school and is off for weeks at a time as a simple cold to him is like the flu and it hits him hard..I wish parents would keep there kids home when sick as I do when he's sick

Use your one active brain cell, put yourself out and keep your germy brat at home. RUFF!

Hard no. It’s selfish and irresponsible.

No...keep your germs at home...sorry i meant sick kids

Straight up no. Sick children belong at home recovering, not infesting others. Sick adults also need to stay home, not going to work infesting others.

Selfish parents who think their job is more important than their kids. They just don't care about the health of others.

Hell no! Report the centre.

irresponsible parents very sad

Some day Care Centres insist on a Dr's certificate for the child to return to Day Care. The only exception is when a baby / toddler is teething which for some little ones they could be affected for a week or more.

Perhaps in an ‘isolation’ room? I recall in primary school we had a sick bay, which had a bed in it as well. This could also be applied to daycare centres. It has been quite a few decades since I had the necessity for the use of one, so things have probably changed.

Sick children should be at home with their parents and not spreading sicknesses at day care. Unfortunately some parents do not have the luxury of being able to stay at home & take time off work, especially when rents & groceries etc keep increasing in price.

I think kids should stay home if they are sick, if parents can't get work off to take care of the child maybe ask a friend or parent to look after the kid

Absolutely sick children should be at home. If you can’t get time off work then find someone or have someone on standby if the need arises. Sick kids make other kids sick and staff. Stop it before it spreads uncontrollably

It is difficult when you are working ,however the child does need mum & if it can be arranged have flexibility where hours are concerned.

Why would you send a sick child to day care or school and not look after them yourself. The child want their mum or dad not some stranger and why have children anyway if you can't look after them and don't use you have to work. You work because you want things,

I totally agree with you. I do not think kids should go if they are sick. NO WAY.

I lived in an era where if the child is sick, you ensure his/her health is watched at home not by young carers.

good child care centres send their sick kids home. Calling parents to come pick them up.

Keep your children at home if they are sick. The end!

Can’t see any solution for this complex problem. Sorry for the sick children, sick adults.

I will also say if you have kids in care or at school consider the possibility of your child getting head lice. Prevention is better than having to treat your child( or family) and their clothing and all bedding and soft toys. Preventative sprays are available at chemist's,or alternatively tea tree oil mixed with water and sprayed on the hair works well. Always check your child regularly for eggs as they spread so quickly and are expensive to treat.

nice idea

It is so good that sometimes they die from the infections that they caught from unvaccinated children who have parents who should be reported tot he child welfare agencies and have their offspring removed for their own safety.

Good call. Speaking as someone who worked with children at center and school based care it's the most thoughtful thing you can do for your child and the other family's using care based services( as well as staff). It's so difficult to ask for time off work or find trusted family/ friends who can can for your child. I understand. I have children too. But if it is possible it's best to keep your child at home. Not only are they more comfortable and can have your one on one care,but you are ensuring that their playmates,caregivers and family's stay healthy. Centers are just one of those places where germs spread rapidly,mainly because they can't isolate your child with 1 staff member. They will be playing/ learning next with others. There is also a danger of them picking up other viruses/ germs whilst already sick which would be horribly bad. I have seen, chicken pox,measles,flu,colds,hand foot and mouth,slapcheek ,bronchitis,viral forms of all sorts of gastro and respiratory diseases and more at care based facilities. Most parents will do the right thing,but some drop and run,turn off their phone and ignore calls to collect their ill child. Worst case scenario if they are extremely ill is ambulance to hospital,without a parent. So if you can keep them home ,please do.

They shouldn’t be allowed too

Always kept my kids home when they were sick and luckily was able to get the time of work but I can understand things are not that easy unless you have a caring and understanding employer.

I know that it is hard for single mothers to stay home to look after their sick children but it is not fair to other children who are open to catching the sickness. I don't know the answer!

Most cases the parent has no choice. I know as a single mum, i have to work or nothing gets paid. Few sick days a year is not enough

my granddaughter is working towards finishing her Early Childhood Education degree and I am horrified at how sick she gets, catches whatever the children bring in and has very low immunity. I always send her boxes of Berocca to try and build herself up. Sadly the parents have to work and unless their children are running a temperature it seems they can go to ECE.

Its hard for parents they have to take them

Children should be kept home when sick

I worked at a Daycare for Hospital employees and it was so hard for the parents to get coverage or be able to stay home with the child. They would give the child Tylenol a half hour before they dropped the child off, as the fever would go down, then an hour or so later we would call the parents to tell them to take the child home....and this was a major hospital in a big city. Not right!

Sick children should be cared for at home, not risking everyone else

they should leave them with others or stay at home with them

If they are sick they should stay at home.

Yes parents should keep youngsters home especially if suffering from any sort of sickness

depends on the sickness

Stay home. This applies to anyone regardless of situation, age or job. I remember long time ago when I was still a teacher working at a school with a total of 32 teachers. 1 teacher came to school sick. We had a staff meeting that day and by the end of the week 19 teachers were away sick. We couldn't get replacement teachers. We had to double up on classes. If you are sick...STAY HOME. Your only making things 10 times worse for others if you don't.

Parents looking after the children

I feel the same way. Not well children need to be home. Otherwise, It affects the whole group.

sick children should be kept at home

It's understandable to feel frustrated when other parents bring their sick children to daycare, especially when it affects the health of other children like your son. While some parents may believe that exposure to germs can strengthen a child's immune system, it's important to balance this with the well-being of other children and the potential for spreading illness. Daycare facilities often have policies in place regarding sick children to prevent the spread of illness, but unfortunately, not all parents adhere to these policies. Communicating your concerns with the daycare staff and possibly even the other parents may help address the situation. Additionally, if your son's health continues to be affected, it might be worth exploring alternative childcare options or discussing your concerns with a healthcare provider. Your son's health and well-being should always come first.

Parents who take sick children to daycare are disgraceful. Do they go to work when they are sick? I bet they don't. I have very strong feelings about childcare and daycare. If you need to work so be it but I don't agree with our federal government pushing women back into the workforce where the state will raise the child. They go on and on about childcare fees etc. so why not give mothers the money to stay at home. My husband and I decided we would do without and he would get a second job so that I could stay at home and raise our children. Sick children need their mother, they need to be at home in familiar surroundings. Children are children for such a short time before they grow up and you never get those years back. Then again some parents have children but really don't want to be a parent and all the time they are amongst us sick children will be dumped at daycare.

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Having a Black and White mind set I would say no. But where do you send your kids if there's no one else to look after them, especially if you have to work? Could child care have a quarantine zone? lol

i worked in daycare for over 25 years. you should not take children when sick. this spreads quickly to other children. respect other families and children. i could go on and on. even the staff can get sick. this makes it go around and around.

Sick kids should not go to daycare 🤥

My 7 year old granddaughter got a virus from her school and off for over a week. I heard several other kids got it as well. Maybe time to reintroduce RAT tests for all students

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IMO its wrong. Day care is not a place for sick kids or sick staff. Although its hard for parents, a sick child is a parents responsibility not the day care.

I can understand some times why parents do it and it is simply because they have to work. I do think centres should separate sick children from the others even though that is extremely hard thing to do but it would stop some of the spread. The centre where the girls went would call me to pick them up when they were sick. I agree if you are sick stay at home until at least you're not contagious any more.

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Its taking sharing a bit far ,If you are sick atay home.

Selfish and kids want their mum or whoever when they're sick.

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This is a very bad practice, but, while some reasons for this behaviour are pretty weak to say the least, I can just imagine the number of things that would make this behaviour even considered. I was born in the 50's and sometimes one of the local mothers would hold a party for their sick children. The idea was, get them sick, they'll survive it and it will be over and done with. Everybody gets sick at the same time and that will relieve the stress on the family. Paid sick time from work was mostly a dream unless you belonged to a really strong union. Unpaid time off could maybe stretched out for two days or so. It was either starve or go to work. I bet there are still an awful lot of jobs that put their employees through this trauma. Please remember, until you've walked a mile in some one else's shoes, you have no idea what they're going through.Edited 16-Apr-24 10:55am

Schools, day cares, etc. are the round robin of germs. I don't believe this is the best way to build up a child's immune system. I worked with a woman who did not want to be home with her daughter, so she came to work with strept throat. I am highly susceptible and ended up getting it. She was told by the head of the department to go home before she infected everyone and there was no one left to run the department.

If my children were sick I would never send them to school let alone day care. How would you feel if, because of your disregard, they caused another child to get sick and end up in hospital. Would you go to work and make your colleagues sick too? It's pure selfishness on your part.

I think the parent should think how THEY would feel having to go to work and stay there all day feeling lousy! The child would just want to be tucked up on a lounge or in bed, resting and watching television instead of being surrounded by noise and other kids. If there's 2 parents even better because one of them can go to work and the other can stay home with the sick child which is the right thing to do! Sick kids belong at home so they can get better!

if my child is sick, I would take their temperature before sending them to daycare.

Its selfish if your kid is sick and you know it dont put them in the position where other kids will get sick some of them may have compromised health situations. Keep them home.

If children are sick, they should be kept at home. No excuses! It is the same for adults who continue to work while unwell and in doing so spread their germs to everyone else who comes in contact with them. Nobody thanks anyone who passes on their cold or virus to them, and it is dangerous as it can cause hospitalisation or perhaps even death to some people.

it depends on what the sickness is.. If is just a sneeze it could be hayfever and hats not contageous but if its going to affect our children that not aceptable

Sick kids should not be at daycare. The centre should have in their policy sick children should be refused and if one gets left they are to be contacted and collected as soon as possible.

Totally irresponsible behaviour and not just by the sick child's Parents but by the Entire Staff, including All Senior management of the Day Care Centre. If you work you should sue the Day Care Centre for Lost Wages. There are No excuses, No Compelling reasons, for this. If a boss sacks the offending parents they can sue for Wrongful Dismissal - you don't have to be a member of a Union to do this for that is what Australia has the Fair Work Commission for. If a country doesn't have such a body, which any decent country should have, then there are the Courts where you can take Civil Action against the employer.

Keep your child at home you do not know what the other child has, Change day care, The day care you have dies not seem on up and up, You cold call the health department and have them checked out. Most schools are telling people to keeo there child home if sick.

Put your children and the community first and keep the child at home. Sending them to school spreads the condition like wildfire.

Irresponsible on its face, however there may be compelling circumstances that parents may have no choice, such as an employer that will fire them for any absence. Heartless if so, but without union protection, many are vulnerable to such capricious actions.

There is one benefit that came from COVID ie working from home. I understand that it is not possible for everyone but where possible I think it should be written into all awards that if a child is unwell one parent should be able to work from home.

It is not allowed and it is rude and inconsiderate. I even knew parents who ignored phone calls from day care asking them to pick up their children.

As a parent with a sick child I would be thinking "What can I do? I can't take any more time off work". As a parent with a non-sick chid I would be thinking "Keep that child away from mine!"

i totally agree it can only make him worse

It's extremely simple: whether it's a child or an adult, when you're sick, you stay at home!

Put your children first and keep them home if they're sick! People need to think about things like this before they have children, the world will no longer revolve around you!

They should not send thier kids to daycare if they are sick this makes more work for the daycare and they do enough with out having to look after a sick child our local daycare would not alow the child in perants cant take there children to daycare if they are sick and its the same at our schoolsEdited 16-Apr-24 08:05am

It certainly depends on what they are sick with, if we don't expose children to some sicknesses they don't build up a good immune system. If a child never experiences some illness they don't build up a good immune system and they are forever sickly. If kids go to day care with a cold there's not a problem, if they go to day care with measles or chicken pox then there is an issue.

Home is the best place when sick keeping oneself and others safe so many illness that are transferable .I have seen child care sickness go through staff ,the family and passed on to the Grandparents .The little people that attend these care places need a strong immune system to cope with communal sharing of place and books and toys .I am sure that places have conditions around sick kids at their school .In the high school I work at if the student presents at sick bay with a symptoms that can transfer we send home .

1pt. Don't have Children.

Sore point for some parents here as some can't afford time off work so take their child into day care anyway. I think that if your child is sick they should stay home and hopefully you are there to look after them. Some parents will off course have someone who can do this grandparents etc but with so many viruses around at the moment it's risky even asking them especially if it's COVID or RSV. I think parents should remember that it is their responsibility to stop the spread off whatever your child has caught not send them back out there to infect others.Edited 16-Apr-24 07:32am

Parents should keep their sick children at home. Small children aren't as hygienic so the germs are easily spread to others.

To me in my opinion the parents/carers are so selfish as money overcomes their priorities. If you have a sick child, take the day of work & it is your responsibility, not the child care carer to do this. They have enough on their hands to look after other children/babies. You have children it is not other peoples to take over your duties. If you can't do this then don't have any. I know life is hard & costly BUT it doesn't mean to take advantage due to this. Men/Women have sick leave & holiday pay were I live use this to take care of your family. Consider other children & their families.

depends on the sickness. Some things are best let nature do it's thing and build up antibodies, others are dangerous

Some sickness are not good but getting them does build antibodies in your body to maybe fight the next illness. Now, when people who are sick or who bring their sick children to daycare are partly responsible for being in the building but the daycare must also take responsibility and not allow these people in the building.

It is always better for the child to be home when sick

Sick kids should be at home

I understand both sides. Yes sick kids should stay home for obvious reasons. But if ur a single parent who has no sick leave and needs to work what then? Stay home and possibly go without the basics or work and have u sick child in day care?

the child is most vulnerable when sick. and the parents responsibility to make sure that child gets help

Unfortunately parents need to think about other children's well being. Not all children have the same immune system as the next child. There are those that are thoughtless and then there are those who do not care.

If my child was sick l used to keep her home .

Sick children should stay home