I was hoping for this to be a Happy Christmas, life is good I retire tomorrow post, you see today was the last day of my boys going to nursery, The Monkey Boy has been there nearly two years and The Bug for about seven or eight months.
The Monkey has been running a mild fever on and off for the last couple of days which we’ve been treating as all parents do with kiddies paracetamol solution and in all honesty he’s been pretty miserable, today though he woke up bright as a button and excited about going in to school to see all of his little friends. I successfully deposited The Bug in his room but was stopped at the door to The Monkey Bugs room and told although it was his last day he wouldn’t be allowed to come in as he had a slightly red bloodshot eye and he would need to be seen by a doctor to confirm he didn’t have conjunctivitis before they’d let him in.
To say that I’m livid that not only did I have to take more time off work, thankfully only a couple of hours, to run him home as Mrs BC is off today, but mostly because they wouldn’t even let him say good-bye to all the friends he’s made in the last couple of years.
I know he’s only three and doesn’t even understand that he’s never going back but I still think that they were being overzealous, cruel, pedants. Even if the kid does have pink-eye (which I’m 99.9% certain he doesn’t) they’re closed for the next two weeks so they wouldn’t have to deal with the fallout.
Refund ha, you’ve got to be joking, so today we have paid approximately £40 for them to be cruel.
This might explain why we have taken the decision to stop sending the boys to spend their days with excitable jobsworths with minimal training and spending their days with me their loving father.
My normal approach to children’s illness and maladies reads something like the below
Is it bleeding?
Yes
Is it bleeding a lot?
only a little bit
Is the blood blue?
No
You’ll be fine then.
Unfortunately in today’s health and safety conscious, litigious times they and all nurseries, schools etc. need to make sure that they cover their own rear ends from ambulance chasing lawyers. Gone are the days of tough school nurses in heavily starched pinnies pouring on some iodine or even better mecurechrome and sending you on your way with tears pouring down your face from the sting. To be fair in the case of mecurechrome it did actually contain mercury and was pretty bad for you, but who cared it dyed your scabby knees bright red as a badge of honour. Today the only course of action is “Oh my god” assume the child is dying and insist on the parents removing the child from the premises.
Enough, I’m being an arse, it’s done, the they don’t have to go back anymore, I’ve only got one day left of work and I can resume my stance of here have some biscuits it will be fine.
TTFN
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OK, I have to get this off my chest – why the hell do people freak out so much over pink eye?!?! It’s like they think it’s some horrible disease when it is simply a cold in the eye! That was ridiculous what they did to your son. He could have easily said goodbye to all of his little friends without passing it on. Everything is so bloody overboard these days. There, I feel a little better now :). They will be far better off with you!
exactly, he doesn’t even have pink eye, he spent the rest of the day jumping on Mrs BC’s head.
Better hers than yours LOL!!!
absolutely, it’s all mine from tomorrow, at least she got a taster of what I’m going to have to put up with.
🙂
It’s amazing how children bounce back from illness.
especially if they aren’t even ill
I’m glad he doesn’t have pink eye–it’s itchy and dry. Second, I hope your days have gotten better. Third, happy holidays!