But Mommy, I Don’t Wanna Go to School Today

When are kids supposed to stay at home from school? According to my research when they have diarrhea, a high fever, or a bug. What happens when the parents don’t believe the child? The child goes to school right. Then does that mean that all of the other kids get sick as well? Not exactly, but it does elevate the risk. Some schools allow students to stay home if they’ve suffered from personal lost or death of someone that their parents knew. All of these are good reasons, but in my opinion there should be more than just these.

What if the child’s so sad that they refuse to smile? A frown can be just as contagious as a bug or a sneeze or even a laugh. It can ruin the parent’s day, the teacher’s day and even other students’. That’s not completely fair to anyone now than is it? Truth be told depression isn’t fair to anyone. Depression and sadness can take their told on the body of the victim and the emotions of those around them.

Just the other day at a Kroger down the street from my house a girl who’s mother lives on the other side of the world can to visit her. Her mother said goodbye to her at Kroger. The girl broke into tears. Being a happy go lucky girl that she is it was devastating to everyone in the store to see her cry over mother leaving her. Isn’t that a personal lost too? You lose your joy and when you lose joy just like with anger you lose your common sense. You feel that the whole world hates you and that you’re the only one on the planet that could possibly be so miserable. You want to be alone. You want to sink into darkness where nothing can hurt you.

That’s a sickness! Your heart hurts, which FYI isn’t normal. Your body begins loosing fluids (tears) at an alarming rate. You feel cold. You wish that your pain would end. That’s sickness in a simple and yet so very complex form.

Here’s another one to think about. You’re child is ahead in class (even if they’re behind in school) you feel that you haven’t spent enough time with them. So why is it wrong to keep them home so that the two of you can enjoy a good time together. You can catch them up on their work if they’re falling behind. If they have a huge test coming up you can help them study. Believe it or not from what I’ve seen in my home town kids who’s parents spend time with them have higher grades and behave better in school than those who don’t.

Way back when me and my mom had a way of communicating with each other that my friend’s parents would have only been able to gawk at. My grades were great. I was one of the best-behaved students in the entire class. Then I moved in with my dad. He was never, home he never spent time with us, and when he was at home and with us it was just to yell at us. My grades dropped; plummeted actually and I had a detention literally every other day.

Point and case; spend time with your children no matter what. You’ll be happier and they’ll be happier. Don’t yell at your kids they aren’t stupid they can get the message. Make blank threats (on their favorite luxuries) instead of yelling at them. Odds are if you say no cell phone for a month unless they get something done they’ll do it. Another thing would be to at the very least congratulate your child when they do something well or get something done as a special surprise for you, or because you told them too.