Who will become a nurse when the child is sick?
In a family where both parents work, who should stay at home when the child can not go to the children's
garden, mom or dad? Who can easily afford to stay at home? Who is more required at work? Do you share responsibilities with your husband or call for reinforcements?(Mom should sit with ill children if possible, when the child is sick, the maternal presence becomes especially important.)
Although there is no better nurse than the parent of the child in their own home, this ideal may be unattainable, especially in a difficult financial situation orif the parent raises the child alone. Consider such alternatives.
Try to work one at a time.
Mom cares for the baby in the morning, Dad in the afternoon. Your child in this case receives a particularly tender loving care from both parents, and both parents hone their skills of caring for a sick child.
Take your child with you to work. If your child is not so sick to stay at home, but he is not allowed into kindergarten, prepare a "sick child's room" at his workplace, if conditions permit. If you have a private office, break a camp in the corner, placing your favorite books, toys and blankets here. This situation, moreover, is a wonderful chance for your child to find out how you work. If the older patient wants and can, give him, in order to take time, some task to "help" you at work. Your child will feel important and will be distracted from his painful condition.
Keep your grandmother in reserve. If you are lucky and your parents live nearby, arrange with your grandmother to replace you in case he gets sick. Grandmothers have time, limitless patience, and the price is just right.
Contact the garden for sick children. Find out which institutions for sick children are provided in your city. Some kindergartens and children's hospitals have separate wards for convalescent children, also called isolators, in which caring staff trained to care for sick children work. However, this service is not cheap.
Plan ahead. Before your child gets sick - and sooner or later it happens - develop a plan of action for your family, instead of trying to take a momentary decision at the first heat. Decide with your husband who will stay at home. Keep the coordinates of the backup nannies. Find out what kind of policy your kindergarten has about admitting sick children. Are there home-care agencies and what price do they charge? Find out what is available, what is available and, most importantly, what is best for your child.
Benefits of sick leave
If you take a sick child from the kindergarten, this may mean a deduction from the salary for working parents, but a day at home with your sick child can give you your compensation. Stay home with your sick child is an opportunity to restore contact. Especially if you and a child have recently lost contact with each other or if it passes through a period of independence, the day at home can do wonders for your relationships. When children get sick, they turn from independent to very dependent, as if recalling what "mom" and "dad" actually mean. Cook chicken broth, cook candy, pat on the back and read fairy tales - a day at home with your child gives your skills of caring for your child and your care for him to manifest in all its splendor.