Friday, January 21, 2005
Daycare Diseases
Working in daycares has taught me the value of over-antisepticising and washing your hands like an obsessive compulsive.
It's one thing to catch a cold from your own kids or from kids you're related to. It's quite another to catch one from the four or more kids who are leaking like a faucet. You can't run to the bathroom everytime to wash up. You'll never get anything done. You'll also dry out your hands (which are already suffering from the winter weather) to the point that no lotion will save them.
I know that parents have to work, and that they can't take off a week or more everytime their kid gets the sniffles. There are some parents, though, who send their kids even if their feverish or if they've had yellowish-green mucus for more than 2-3 days. Both are signs of a sinus infection. Some don't believe that it's anything serious. Others don't believe in doctors. Others "have no time" to take their sick child to a doctor or a clinic.
Bullsh*t. If you bring a child into this world then deal with it. You will have to take them to doctors and take care of them when they are sick. YOU are the parent. These are the same people who are quick to blame everyone else for how their kid turns out. It's the daycare's fault, it's the school's fault, it's their friends' fault, it's society's fault... Heaven forbid that they should have anything to do with raising their own child... But that's a whole other rant. :)
Excuse me, I need to go blow my nose.
It's one thing to catch a cold from your own kids or from kids you're related to. It's quite another to catch one from the four or more kids who are leaking like a faucet. You can't run to the bathroom everytime to wash up. You'll never get anything done. You'll also dry out your hands (which are already suffering from the winter weather) to the point that no lotion will save them.
I know that parents have to work, and that they can't take off a week or more everytime their kid gets the sniffles. There are some parents, though, who send their kids even if their feverish or if they've had yellowish-green mucus for more than 2-3 days. Both are signs of a sinus infection. Some don't believe that it's anything serious. Others don't believe in doctors. Others "have no time" to take their sick child to a doctor or a clinic.
Bullsh*t. If you bring a child into this world then deal with it. You will have to take them to doctors and take care of them when they are sick. YOU are the parent. These are the same people who are quick to blame everyone else for how their kid turns out. It's the daycare's fault, it's the school's fault, it's their friends' fault, it's society's fault... Heaven forbid that they should have anything to do with raising their own child... But that's a whole other rant. :)
Excuse me, I need to go blow my nose.
# posted by SilverFlame @ 2:24 p.m. 
