Darla Shine
06-14-2009, 10:17 AM
You stupid mother who sent you caughing, sick child to my son's pool party last night, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
First off this child is a nice boy. I like him. He showed up caughing so much that he was caughing while he was eating. I asked him if he had the flu, all the children know our district is infested with swine, (So obvious this kid has it) He says he had bronchitis earlier in the week.
It was about 65 degrees out and drizzling but I went forward with my son's end of the school party, hey boys, a little rain, no big deal. So the boys all go into the pool and so does this kid. Then he swims to the side and hold on to the edge and has a caughing attack.
I call his mother. "Your son looks miserable and is caughing a lot." Oh he had bonchitis this week (LIE) I say "well its cold out and if he was sick all week should he be in the pool, out in the rain?" Oh he is fine she says. I say "well I don't want to embarass him but maybe you should think of an excuse and come pick him up" Oh-Oh, well let me talk to him.... "he is in the pool (I don't want him using my phone) Oh she says, I will call him on his cell.
Okay moron he is in the pool and so how can he hear his cell.
My choices, tell her to come and get this kid out of my backyard, embarassing the kid and mine....
Two, hope as a caring mom she would come pick up her child.
So my mother who is there says since all the boys are outside in the fresh air its at least better than in school where he probably was breathing all over the kids all week.
So, she showed up at 10 pm which was the pick up time. I wanted to punch her. I was nice but I told her 'the poor kid probably should have been home with a nice bowl of hot soup in his bed and I walked away.
Lets say this kid really had bronchitis why would you let him go to a pool party while he is still caughing?
The truth is this mother has stigma.. now having swine has gotten this scarlet letter on it. Which is so dangerous. People don't want to say they have it and worse yet, don't want to believe they could have it.
If over 100 kids in Connor's school are out with the flu, now, what on earth is going to happen next fall? There is a 50% rate of kids out in Hannah's grade with the flu. I kept her home all week. The doctors are calling it a flu, no one is getting swabbed, but the virus is growing and mutating.
Mothers are sending their kids back to school caughing because they have to work. One mom I know sent her kid to school with lice because she had to work.
I know some single mothers HAVE to work but a lot of these moms I know are working for extra spending cash so they can get an inground pool or shop at bloomingdales. And that is fine. But, when you give your kid tylenol to bring his fever down because you need to go to work, your kid sits next to my kid, and then its a problem I have to deal with.
Right now, every woman, every mom, has to think about everyone elses kid before this flu kills us all.
Really, if we can't stay home for a week while we are sick, we are really selfish.
When I was younger my mother would let my body rest and recover. If I had a fever she would say, you need to stay home and let your body rest and recover. Now these kids have a fever in the morning and are on the baseball field at night, GOD forbid, a kid misses an activity. God forbid the kid misses a pool party.
First off this child is a nice boy. I like him. He showed up caughing so much that he was caughing while he was eating. I asked him if he had the flu, all the children know our district is infested with swine, (So obvious this kid has it) He says he had bronchitis earlier in the week.
It was about 65 degrees out and drizzling but I went forward with my son's end of the school party, hey boys, a little rain, no big deal. So the boys all go into the pool and so does this kid. Then he swims to the side and hold on to the edge and has a caughing attack.
I call his mother. "Your son looks miserable and is caughing a lot." Oh he had bonchitis this week (LIE) I say "well its cold out and if he was sick all week should he be in the pool, out in the rain?" Oh he is fine she says. I say "well I don't want to embarass him but maybe you should think of an excuse and come pick him up" Oh-Oh, well let me talk to him.... "he is in the pool (I don't want him using my phone) Oh she says, I will call him on his cell.
Okay moron he is in the pool and so how can he hear his cell.
My choices, tell her to come and get this kid out of my backyard, embarassing the kid and mine....
Two, hope as a caring mom she would come pick up her child.
So my mother who is there says since all the boys are outside in the fresh air its at least better than in school where he probably was breathing all over the kids all week.
So, she showed up at 10 pm which was the pick up time. I wanted to punch her. I was nice but I told her 'the poor kid probably should have been home with a nice bowl of hot soup in his bed and I walked away.
Lets say this kid really had bronchitis why would you let him go to a pool party while he is still caughing?
The truth is this mother has stigma.. now having swine has gotten this scarlet letter on it. Which is so dangerous. People don't want to say they have it and worse yet, don't want to believe they could have it.
If over 100 kids in Connor's school are out with the flu, now, what on earth is going to happen next fall? There is a 50% rate of kids out in Hannah's grade with the flu. I kept her home all week. The doctors are calling it a flu, no one is getting swabbed, but the virus is growing and mutating.
Mothers are sending their kids back to school caughing because they have to work. One mom I know sent her kid to school with lice because she had to work.
I know some single mothers HAVE to work but a lot of these moms I know are working for extra spending cash so they can get an inground pool or shop at bloomingdales. And that is fine. But, when you give your kid tylenol to bring his fever down because you need to go to work, your kid sits next to my kid, and then its a problem I have to deal with.
Right now, every woman, every mom, has to think about everyone elses kid before this flu kills us all.
Really, if we can't stay home for a week while we are sick, we are really selfish.
When I was younger my mother would let my body rest and recover. If I had a fever she would say, you need to stay home and let your body rest and recover. Now these kids have a fever in the morning and are on the baseball field at night, GOD forbid, a kid misses an activity. God forbid the kid misses a pool party.