Local author and blog-goddess Edgy Mama recently posted a couple of blog entries about that dreaded parental duty; coping with a sick kid. Here’s a sample:
“As I warmed my cold nose against the frying pan of his neck, he asked if he could go back to school tomorrow. “I don’t think so,” I said.
There was a pause. “If I don’t go to school, are they going to put you in jail, like those guys told me?”
I guess the truant officers have been putting the fear of God and prison into the pre-Kindergarteners.”
Read more here.
While we’re on the topic, are there any parents out there who’d like to share their “stuck with kids sick at home” stories?
—Steve Shanafelt, A&E reporter
