Babysitting sick kids

I get upset whenever I see parents bring their sick kids to school. Like giving them medicine to hide the fever is really helping! I have 2 children and I help raise my 2 nephews and niece so with 5 kids someone is normally not feeling well due to some bug caught at school. I am very careful about illness and cannot think of many reasons why I would be willing to watch someone elses sick child. Maybe if they had to go to emergency room or something like that but just for work no way. I can't risk infecting 5 kids and myself. I agree with you she needs to stay home for the day and maybe work on potty training! :)

You friend should be understaning as the last thing she would want is for yours to be sick and get hers sick someday. So she really should not be upset and as a working mother does have to have a plan B in mind. What would happen if one day you are sick and cannot babysit what will she do them?

I am not a stickler about illnesses. I personally feel the more germs we're exposed to, the stronger our immune systems will be to fight off such germs. However, I must also add that I've always been an extremely healthy person rarely getting anything worse than a cold. My children are the same way. They don't get many colds.. and of all my 5 kids I've rarely had to deal with ear infections, or anything worse than a typical cold (one of them had the flu once, and another had RSV as an infant.. that's it). If I had a child who got sick easily, and got sick often.. I'd feel differently. I would allow a child over if they had a typical cold.. but if it were worse than that I'd probably ask that they not come over. I'm currently not a working mom, so when my kids are too sick to go to school I have no problems. However I plan on getting back into the work force soon, so hopefully I can find arrangements for my children when they are too sick for school!

It amazes me how many parents try to send their child to child care center when they are sick. Well, let's just send them to child care, get all the other kids' sick and everyone is sick including the teachers..and then by the time the motrin and tylenol wear off, we have at least half a day of work in. I blame a lot of this on the upper management for not being flexible for working families. If they are allowed to take a day of here and there, we wouldn't have a lot of sick kids. I would watch my grand kids if they were sick and their parents needed someone, but not someone else's kids.

i have babysat for years when my children were little. and babysitting a sick child is no different then sending your child to school. there is going to be a sick child or two there. just keep your girls away or out of the childs face and do not let them drink or eat after each other. plus one day your child is going to get what ever that other child has had. it is just better to get it over with.

I babysit all the time but if a child is sick then I do not watch them either. Whether other people get mad at me or not. There are certain things that I will just not allow and this is one of them. I have 3 kids also and I don't want them to get sick. That would not be fair to my little ones. A lady I babysit for dropped her son off and he had a bad fever and was throwing up. I called her the minute I touched him and he was burning hot with fever. I told her to come get him as soon as she could get here. Other parents should have more courtesy and respect for other people! =)

when my kids were sick and i had to work, i used to send them over to my moms and she would watch them. she didnt mind but i wouldnt make anyone else watch them. its not fair.

If you are sick you will need to let them know as well so you dont spread your germs to them. What is the worst is when they show up and dont know their kids are sick and then you catch what they have and cant watch their kids because you are sick. When I babysat I wouldnt watch kids if they had a bug or were running a fever. If they had something contagious they had to be on antibiotics for at least 24 hours before I would watch them. I do not blame you do not worry if the mother gets mad. I understand because she needs to work or whatever but still.

Hi. brandypelland. No, I would not babysit someone else kids while I have my kids at the house along with me. If I am just getting over being sick myself, I would not babysit someone else kids just because they would like for me to. I personally feel that if my kids contract the others kids sickness and germs, then they will be sick as well. Now, I will have something on my hands then.