Nursery World - Working Mum

When monitoring children for attendance, allowances must be made
for individual circumstances, says Working Mum

Guilty! I admit I'm one of those parents who doses their child with Calpol if they have a slight temperature then takes them to nursery or school. If one of my daughters says she is feeling ill, I'll tell her that she needs to go and I'll collect her if she continues to be unwell. Getting dressed and out of the house is an amazing healer and hasn't failed me yet.

As a parent I know that 'I have tummy ache' is code for 'I want to snuggle up and watch TV' or 'I want to spend time with you'. That's all lovely, but I'm a working mum and I can't take random days off work. As well as making my unsympathetic boss unhappy, it also means my workload builds up. If my husband takes a day off, he then doesn't get paid, so there are financial implications of a mythical sore tummy and we won't keep our children at home without good reason.

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