I have been spending my time trying to avoid any situation where I would come in contact with a sick person, just because I don’t want my children to get sick.  I am a little paranoid that way.  Maybe its because my baby has had 5 colds in her short 8 months of existence. 

When I am sick or one of my children are sick, I usually keep them home for the first 48 hours of their illness, usually when they are at their most contagious period.  Why?  Because I really don’t want to infect some other innocent child, or adult for that matter.  Its different when you don’t know you are coming down with something.  I have had that happen before, when I thought it was my allergies starting up, and then I gave my friend and her son the nasty cold.  I just felt so awful and guilty, but I would never intentionally do that.

Why is stay home????  BECAUSE…….your child does not have a lot of energy when they are very ill.  They just want to be cuddled and lay around.  They are tired.  Would you feel like going out on the town with a fever?  Also, because they are contagious!!!  Why infect another innocent child?  And furthermore…a child will recover much faster if he/she gets the rest and fluids their body needs to recuperate.

Stay home when your child is sick, your child and the other moms will thankyou.