I worked at a mother's day out program for a few years so my child could have others to play with during the day. I had to quit because we were sick every month. Those mothers were not going to work though, and they were wealthy women. They had their kids in MDO so they could have lunch with their girlfriends, get a pedicure, or go shopping. They ALWAYS brought their kids in sick on tylenol and it would wear off half-way into the morning. They would say their kids were having allergy problems and that's why their noses were running. I would call the mothers on their cell phones and demand that they come and pick up their sick child. Of course they would act all surprised and put on a show once they got there.
My sister does the same thing. She brought her kids over sick all of the time when they were little saying the pollen was bothering them. (even in December) She would invite everyone to her house for a birthday party, and then tell everyone her husband had the flu or one of them had strep-throat once we got there. Then she'd act like I was way too knit-picky and over-protective when I got mad. I remember one time, years ago, she had a birthday party for my nephew and he was so sick that he was coughing all over the cake and felt too bad to open all of his presents.
(Of course she has a $15 co-pay and we are self-employed and have to pay out-of-pocket, which generally ends up costing $130 per sick kid.)
These are the parents who are going to spread the diseases and infections that could cause a pandemic this century. They are too self-absorbed to care about other people.
Thanks for the link. It looks very interesting!
Wow. Your experience with irresponsible parents is pretty outrageous. Definitely check out that link. It's long but the info in it is worth the time.
I just saw on Fox News that the epidemic is expanding and is now in other states.
But the news reader just said that the vaccine is 95% effective against this strain of mumps. Why are they saying that when 66% of the kids in Iowa who have mumps already got the vaccine????