Hypochondriacs...

[Ty Korrigan]

Look, I admit, I am not yet a father so go lightly with me on this.

I got a call from my collegue to say that his eldest 5year old was too ill to go to school and so he had to stay off work to look after him.

I turned up at his house to see the boy sitting watching t.v and generally playing quietly.

Yes, he has a cold but well enough to play, go shopping with his parents and generally whilst not on form be active.

Same tomorrow! That's 2 days lost for a sniffle!

Call me mean and old fashioned but when I tried to cry off school with belly ache my parents hoofed my out of the door regardless!

Was the 1970's really so tough or am I just being a Grinch on this one.

Anyway, 360euros all on my lonesome today so not so bad.

Ty

[s.varty]

Everyones gone soft mate, if he sniffles at school they,ll send him home anyway ,cos he might spread his germs:thumbdown:. Or your mate might just fancy a couple of days off:laugh1:

[Steve Bullman]

Like you said...you're not a father.

 

My little girl was off the other week...watch tv, playing quietly as you described, appeared fine to be at school on the face of things. That hid the fact however that she had been up pretty much the entire night with a temperature and bad cough.

[Pat Ferrett]

When the doctor told me I was a hypocondriac my first thought was " Oh no not that aswell ":001_tongue:

[Ty Korrigan]

I'd would be last one here to call Mr Bullmans judgement into question...

Already on a final warning although for the life of me I can't remember why...hhh!

Ty

[kieran connell]

i often have to stay off work to look after my kids if one of em is ill! theyre very resilient kids and can often appear fine. i think if a parent feels they need to take time off work to take care of their kids they are well within their rights too.

[High Scale]

Your not a dad, keep your mouth shut.

[agg221]

Both our two (2 and 4) currently have bad colds. On the face of it they look a bit bunged up and bleary eyed but sit quietly and watch the television. What you can't see is that they would normally be racing around the house. The childminder will still take the younger one as she can sleep most of the day, but the older one is at pre-school and they simply haven't got anywhere for her to quietly go to sleep for a couple of hours. Got away with it for the past couple of days by picking her up a bit early, but they may refuse to take her if she isn't better tomorrow.

 

What you also can't see is that the elder one had a temperature of 39.5 before the Nurofen kicked in.

 

Alec

[Le Sanglier]

Where was the mother?

[Steve Bullman]

What you can't see is that they would normally be racing around the house.

 

Yep same here, only time my 2 are quiet is when they are ill