Is a head cold a good reason to keep you child home from school?

i think it depends on the child. if he/she doesnt feel well, there is no way they will be able to concentrate at school anyways, so i would keep them home. also, if they are contageous too, why would you send your child to school to infect a whole bunch of other?

No i dont think a simple head cold is a reason good enough to skip school. These are minor things and simple medication is good enough to manage these. I wont keep my children off from school until there is some problem that could increase if proper rest is not provided to the child. I earlier use to allow my daughter to skip school if she is not feeling well but found her playing all day once her school van was gone. So let the child face some problems. Always keeping them in mothers arms is not acceptable.

I think it depends on how severe the cold is. If the child is really miserable and worn out from the cold then I would maybe keep them home for a day. Other than that my kids aren't staying home unless they have a fever.

For me if the reason for the child to skip school is more of pure lazy, I would not accommodate that. But if its because of health, I would definitely kept them at home. This is because health is the most important thing that I would monitor on my children. Not to worsen their health, I would make sure they skip school for that... but not for a mere slight flu I guess.:-)

As long as they are not running a fever or obviously contagious I see no reason not to send a child with a cold to school. All kids get sick because they are all around each other for several hours a day. I don't care how much sanitizer gets used kids are going to get sick until they build up enough immunity to things. And no matter what you do a cold is going to be around for a week to ten days. Medicines will help a little but...you're still going to have the cold. And that was told to me by a doctor.

You knopw I am not a parent but I do have a story I think yo would like to hear. Ever since I started school, my mom told me that going to school was my job. So even when I was sick, I would go to school. Well one day I felt terrible but I was determined to go to school. So I got dressed and was about to leave when my mom took one lok at me and said. " Go back to bed!" So now I feel it depends on how the child feels. If he/she is sick but feels well enough to go, then they should go. But if they feel terrible, they shoud stay home.

hi miamilady oh if I still had little kids in school with'bad colds they wouldn't be sent to school as that is a great way
to spread cold and flu bugs. I would not keep them out unless they were really ill but then yes, they would stay home until they were no longer contagious. education was always important to me and I never let my kid stay home unless there was a damned good reason.

school is very very important in my home. however so is mental health. i am not going to send my children to school if they are sick. i think that's silly and can cause others to become ill as well. i always allow my children to have a "me" day off. two from sep-jan, and then two from feb-june. i know what its like to get up and not want to go to work, so i know they have those days too. this way i know they are not going to leave the house saying they are going to school and end up sleepin on a friends couch...

hi miamilady,I think a headcold is a very good reason for a child to be absent from school. With the pain and discomfort a head cold brings its simply no use for the child to attend school and try to be attendant to class.
My mother was a nurse and my father a doctor. As my parents were divorced my mother had custody of me and she was very strict when it came to attending school. I would never have dared to pretend I am sick so I wont have to go to school and my mother most of the time sent me to school when I did not have high temperature.

I am all about attendance but at the same time I don't want to send my children to school if they are ill. If my child is not running a fever I will normally send them to school. A head cold can be bad enough to keep one home but if it's not severe I would send them.