My sister is a day care provider and says it is routine for parents to pump their kids full of advil to get the fever down enough so they can at least go into work for a half day.
Yep, it’s a common thing... And, it’s one of the reasons I got out of the childcare industry. That and the fact that I had 2 & 3 year olds calling ME Mommy, and screaming and crying to stay at school instead of going home with their parents. I even had one 3 year old confront his (very brilliant scientist mom) one evening when she came to pick him up saying; “Go back to work, I don’t WANT you, I want to stay HERE with her (meaning me)”. Sorry - sore point for me on that score, but was it any wonder. Many of “my kids” were dropped off at 6 am and not picked up till 6 pm. We WERE their parents for all intents and purposes. They only saw their parents for like 2 hours a day for dinner and bedtime...
[No offense meant to parents who NEED daycare to get by, but 99% of these parents in our school had two folks making over $100,000 a year, it’s not like they NEEDED two incomes, and their kids suffered mightily for it...]
OK, won’t derail this any further with that topic! LOL