For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 15, 2013

disappointing!

Or they will get sick later in life.

Not much space between the houses.

my grandsons were never sick until mom put them in a Mother’s Day Out program once a week, then they were sick all the time, but on the positive side, by the time they started school they were as germ ridden as all the other kids and were seldom sick.

People it’s a cartoon! Let it go.

I caught all of those childhood diseases at school. My advice… if there is a vaccine for it, get them vaccinated.

SUSAN NEWMAN: I remember a Margaret Mead lecture in the late ’40s on social change. She pointed out that “baby sitter” a recent term because earlier the term was “Grandma” or “Aunt …”.

I’m a great- grandmother now. I remember MY grandmother saying “You gotta’ eat a pecka dirt before you die.”I believe that. If you don’t build up your immune system, it won’t be strong enough to help you when you need it. It’s getting harder to find a dish soap that isn’t‘antibacterial.’ But antibacterial isn’t always a good thing. I’ve read some unsettling things about it.

How did I know they were going to publish my comment twice? Because they always do.

Good side-order of guilt, Anne!

Annie’s right it is probably where Lizzie picked up the germs. I remember being scared when my kids were in daycare because there was something going around called hand, foot and mouth disease. I’d never heard of it until daycare, but my kids had to go because I had to work and go to school.

In the good old days (good because they are gone) some parents would take their kids to visit another kid that had measles, chic. pox, etc, so “They’d get it over with!”

Until two young boys got wise to this policy:One comes home and blurts out “There’s a rumor that a girl in town has the Syph!”Other responds: “Will you shut up before mom takes us down to get it!”

look at the brite side she won’t catch what ever it was again she’s built up antibodies that’s why doctors don’t give drugs for a lot of sickness

I work in a pre-school/daycare, and if people would keep their sick kids at home that would go a long way toward passing things around. That doesn’t mean give them tylnol, to mask the fever then act all surprised when it wears off and we have to call you to come get them. That doesn’t make them any less contagious.

Apparently, that was a misdiagnosis. A recent program on TV discussed FDR’s symptoms, which were NOT those of the polio virus. They pointed at G-somethig-Barre ( sorry, I don’t know the correct spelling ). So, it seems, FDR never had polio.

This is what’s wrong with the schools now though. They ask that you keep your kids at home when they’re sick, but only allow them 10 days absent a semester/trimester for illness, appointments, etc. Like Elly, when my kids are sick, I keep them home for a day or two to hopefully prevent the spread, so other kids don’t have to stay home, but like Anne most of the other parents could care less if other kids get sick, as long as their kids don’t miss any school.

Arye Uygur: That is the right spacing, but wrong architecture, in the Dallas suburbs. Houses are a sort of compressed French Provincial urban sprawl known locally as Plano Style, from the suburb to first have it as a majority..Hawthorne: Probably a misdiagnosis. The second (and possibly later) attack is called shingles, which I know all too well, even though it is on my head, not waist. Shingles on the roof is no fun either.

“I never went to day care . . and I got sick . . .”

Me too . . . and also, my dad smoked two packs a day and we lived in Pittsburgh in the early 40’s. You could look up outdoors and see soot from the steel mills raining down on you. I got terrible bronchitis. Things got better after my dad got pneumonia and relocated to St. Petersburg, FL, where he had lived in the ’20’s.

Reality is whether you start your kids in daycare at 1 year or Kindergarten at 5 years the first couple of months that child will catch absolutely everything every other child has and then move on. The first introduction to daily contact with a group of children always has the same result. Same is true for the adults caregivers too. First couple of months working in a daycare or school you catch everything.