Now I know why parents of little ones hate winter

[Tactically Fat]

We've not had any hospitalization scares with our youngins... But let me tell you about colds/germs/bugs/etc.

Last school year, my daughter began preschool. Up until that point, however, we had both of our kids at an at-home daycare. Vast majority of the kids there are teacher's kids.

Then my daughter began preschool. She's in Kindergarten now. My son is still at the babysitter's.

So, I get exposed to: everything my daughter brings home. Everything my son brings home (around a bunch of teacher's kids...). AND everything that my wife, a middle school teacher in a large Indy-area school, brings home.

I think my kids are going to have almost other-worldly immune systems when they get older. Me? I'm not so sure I'll survive.

 

[gamecrimez]

We love it in the winter at our house with 3 kids in school. Yep once 1 kid gets sick & starts feeling better than the next & so on til it goes back around to round 2. I must have built an immunity as I seem to be the only one that doesn't get sick but we have to buy a lot of meds for the different aged kids & learned that even the 1s not sick best to give them meds to prevent it. Last year was horrible kids missed quite a bit of school this year not nearly as bad.