Am I Being Oversensitive?

DebsPSUbride

H went to a Gymboree type class this morning and one of the kids there was sick with a cold; coughing and sneezing everywhere and just grossness coming out of his nose.  Can't you keep the kid home please?  I know it's not a big deal, but he was outwardly sick with a cold.  I wouldn't take H to that kind of a place if she had outward symptons like that.   If you need to get out of the house, can't you go to Target or something a little less "hands on". Just annoys me.  I'll step down off my soap box.

TSD

Considering E and I were sick for 2 weeks between the both of us, he throwing up and having 104 fever for 4 days, I'm with you. I know it was because I was the class mom right before it happened and I was sitting next to a kid with green snot all over his face and it was all over his face because he wiped it there with his hands.

Unless you're a brain surgeon and need to operate, keep your very sick kid home. I stayed home from work monday because E couldn't go to school. I lost money- probably a few hundred dollars or more, but I wasn't sending him to school like that. A bit of a clear runny nose? A cough? Ok. But, definitely infection-like sick? NO WAY.  

laurenpetro

it's a cold.

DebsPSUbride

laurenpetro:

it's a cold.

yes, I know, but then we all get it, and she's miserable.  If it was something more "mandatory' I'd agree with you, but to a gym class, not necessary.

lpwish

I'm not one of those moms who doesn't want my kid to ever get sick, but I do get annoyed with sick kids at Gymboree.  It's just not necessary.  We had a class this morning as well, and the instructor actually took the time to say that if you see a child who clearly is sick, please tell her and she'll ask them to leave. 

maddie7

Try being a public school teacher where parents send their kids bc they dont want to take the day off of work. Its insane!

ladyredlight

No I'd be really annoyed too.  Really annoyed.

MrsDB

i would be annoyed too. it is just a cold, colds happen. but at the same time- having a sick kid sucks, it sucks to be sick, if i can avoid getting someone sick i do. Going to something like Gymboree is totally avoidable. It'd be better to just go to a park or somewhere open and spaced out that day and do a makeup class another day. It's different than a playdate even because you know that those people at least want to see you. But randoms at a kids class don't really care if you stay home, it makes sense in my head at least lol

dmendel

It's a cold.  If I kept Abby home from Gymborree everytime she had a cold, we would never be there.  It's part of life.  I know the Gymboree I went to keeps it very clean and was constantly cleaning.  Kids get sick, it sucks, but its winter its bound to happen.