Please Don’t Send Your Sick Kid Over to My House

So I’m watching the kids on Monday morning and one of the neighborhood kids comes to the door to see if my daughter (4-years old) can play. I invited her in and before too long I noticed that she was coughing a lot–and it was odd that a six year old girl was not in school with the other first graders. So I asked her “Don’t you have school today?”

She replied with the following, which I will never forget: “Yes, but my mommy says I have to stay home today because I’m sick. She said she doesn’t want me to get the other kids at school sick.”

But she let you come over to MY house?! What the crap?! Needless to say, I sent the little girl on her way shortly thereafter.