Primary Time: Wellness Etiqette and Nurseryby Miriam Caldwell | More from this Blogger 16 Jan 2007 10:11 PM If you have a child in Nursery or Primary, you may be concerned when the winter months hit. This is especially true in the nursery, where little ones are being exposed to germs for the first time. It is important that you follow the proper etiquette and exercise consideration for those around you when your child is sick. It can be very frustrating for your child to come home and gets sick a day or two after nursery class. The same basic guidelines should apply as if you were sending your child to school. If your child has a fever, diarrhea, upset stomach or pink eye keep her home. Generally you should keep your child home until she is cleared from all symptoms for twenty-four hours. If your child has a cold, children with runny noses are discouraged from attending nursery. This is a bit trickier, because my son often develops sinus infections, which are not contagious. If I feel he is contagious I keep him out of nursery class. My daughter had three different bouts of hand foot and mouth disease. (There are three different strains of the virus.) The only place she could have caught this at was in her Nursery class. Each time she was miserable. Granted, at times you might not realize that your child is sick until after church. It happens, but if you do know, please be considerate and keep your child out of nursery class for the day. It is difficult to do, especially if you do not feel that your child is sick enough to warrant you staying home from church. But others will be grateful for your sacrifice. Nursery routines can be difficult to reestablish. Right now, we are going through this as we try to help our son return to nursery after we kept him with us due to a cold. He is having a hard time staying, but I know we will get him back on track! Related Articles: Primary Time: Getting Ready for Nursery Class Primary Time: Helping Your Child Transition to a New Teacher Primary Time: Helping Your Reluctant Child Attend Primary Learn more about Miriam Caldwell  Miriam is a SAHM mom of three children. She has a daughter who is seven, and two sons, four and two. She loves being a parent and spending time with her children. Relevantlds tags User Comments  babydawn (7008) 16 Jan 2007 09:38 PMYes, I think everyone in my ward thinks my husband went inactive these past few months because my daughter (she just turned 2 last week) had a cold, would get better for a day, then have another one, for two months straight. I got really sick of it, but I am not so sure he minded... :) Yes, it is important to keep your little ones home if they are sick, I agree.  Miriam Caldwell (8030) 17 Jan 2007 07:42 PMHow frustrating, that she keeps getting sick! At least she isn't spreading it around. It can be difficult to work back into the routine after two months as well. I hope she gets feeling better! Good Luck! Nola Redd (7081) 18 Jan 2007 09:56 AMWe were called to nursery at the same time my sons were in there (actually, our newborn was 6 mos when we were called). Through the winter, one of us was always saying home! ARGH! Since most of ours were runny noses (and the Primary Pres. had explicitely requested no runny noses; no allergies here that we could tell), we got in the habit of going to sacrament, sitting either in the back or in the lobby (ie away from other kids), and then the homegoer would leave and the other would stay. Miriam Caldwell (8030) 18 Jan 2007 07:28 PMYikes! I would actually decline if I had a newborn. It is the only time I would decline a calling, that I can think of. But I would decline--it is too stressful to be in there when you have a little baby, plus I nurse, so I would have to miss part of the class anyway! Nola Redd (7081) 20 Jan 2007 11:11 AMI also nurse, and wound up nursing him through the end of Sacrament, I think, and then again right after church. I didn't actually consider the germ aspects, although we were called in the summer, so he was nearly a year by the time winter and colds came around. Then, too, with the constant absences from his siblings, I would keep him home some of the time. Also, we had a strict "no fever, sneezes, or runny nose" policy because we had several kids in there with health problems at the same time. Since his birthday is in February, he'll spend more time in senior nursery (we've already gone through this with my eldest son, born in January); he'll have been in nursery from 6 months to 46 months (just before his 4th birthday). The up side is that, when we were released while he was 17 mos, the other nursery teachers told us not to bother pulling him out, and we had absolutely NO problems with him going into nursery, unlike our first two. Community Tags illness, lds, nursery, Primary Discuss this article
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