As you may already know we are currently on our Easter break in North Devon and to keep this blog ticking over whilst I am having a break I have some guest posts lined up by a couple of my lovely fellow bloggers.

Today’s post is from Rachel who blogs over at Life At Home With Mrs B. Rachel, like me is a working mum. She has two girls Miss C and Miss M. Rachel blogs about her family life as a working mum and her two daughters.

Over the past few months my poor little girl has been suffering from high temperatures, rotten colds and generally feeling really poorly. As a working mum I have been struggling like all of us to send her into school knowing I should probably be off work to keep her at home with me so I can give her lots of TLC. I keep telling myself if she’s THAT poorly the school will ask to me pick her up and bring her home.

They never do.

However, this had me thinking – is this a good thing? I think in truth it might. Miss M isn’t actually being sick or has an upset tummy, she has a cold, a real nasty one but it is a cold. I actually think this is teaching Miss M about resilience and is setting her up for later on in her adult life. When she feels really rough, she will just get on with it because she is now being taught that life carries on. She can’t take a sick day just because she feels rotten. Ok if she had flu or something similar then of course that’s different but for a cough, sore throat or a cold, no. She has Calpol and Nurofen to make her feel better for a few hours at a time but she can still go to school to learn.

My eldest who is 10, moans about feeling poorly when she has a cold but if I suggested she should take a day off  – the look I’d get! She was really ill for a few days and wasn’t sleeping very well due to a blocked nose but she still went to school, she didn’t want to miss out on her learning. I have without knowing it, enabled Miss C to become resilient.

I am now doing the same with Miss M. I am hoping that as they both grow older, it will help them to push forward when the going gets tough because if they can struggle on a school learning while they are feeling poorly – they can do anything! (or at least have great attendance at school and work!)

What do you think?

Thanks Rachel for this interesting post. We generally only ever keep E at home if he is really sick or has something that is contagious and at almost 6 he is already very good at getting on with being ill! I think its good to teach them to be resilient.

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