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Would you wake your sick child up at 5am to go to their grandparents b/c they refused to pick her up

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 20.0%
  • No

    Votes: 20 80.0%

  • Total voters
    25

MagnificentMama

Senior Community Member
Thanks... it's been resolved.

It was a total catastrophe, but it's over and done with :)

Thanks for all the input, i really appreciate it.
 
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Starlight

Senior Community Member
You aren't really giving us a whole lot to go on here.

If you don't wake her and drive her, do ya'll stay home? How does that effect the family?

What is she sick with?

Why are they refusing to pick her up?

Do they normally pick her up?
 

MagnificentMama

Senior Community Member
You aren't really giving us a whole lot to go on here.

If you don't wake her and drive her, do ya'll stay home? How does that effect the family?

I live with my parents so when I have to be at work early, my dad drops DD off at school which starts at 9.

What is she sick with?

Whooping cough :(

Why are they refusing to pick her up?

They don't want to drive to my house b/c I was willing to drive to theirs at 5:30am

Do they normally pick her up?
From school which is 5 mins away, but not fairly often from my house which is like 15 mins away.
 

MagnificentMama

Senior Community Member
Will G-ma have to pick her up at 5?
No, that's the point, DD would stay with my dad until 8 when she normally wakes up and Grandma would pick her up after so she didn't have to get interupted sleep

Or does Dad go into work later?
DD's dad refused to pick her up before he had to go to work. My dad (her grandpa) doesn't work. I just thought he could have a break from DD because grandma offered to watch her and he watched her all day today
 

Starlight

Senior Community Member
Well, it's not very considerate of G-ma to make the poor sick baby get up at 5 am.

(((Hugs)))
 

MagnificentMama

Senior Community Member
Well, it's not very considerate of G-ma to make the poor sick baby get up at 5 am.

(((Hugs)))

Honestly, if she was not sick and it wasn't at the a$$ crack of dawn, i'd have NO problem dropping her off. But something about a sick baby getting up at 5:30 and me knowing that she could pick her up later, but just doesn't want to makes me so sad.

*sigh* remind me next time just to let my dad watch her again so i could have avoided this whole thing.
 

cryswilkins

New member
To me, free child care is free child care. If that is the only way, then I would do it, not happily, but I would. I think that it is a bit inconsiderate of g-ma, but who am I to judge.
 

StarrNanny

New member
I voted no... but really if I had no other choice I'd probably put her in the car in her pjs and let her go back to sleep at grandma's
 
I voted no. If I'm understanding it all correctly, there's no reason to wake the child up early other than g-ma not wanting to drive over and pick her up later when she wakes on her own. A sick child should be allowed to sleep, uninterrupted, if possible. :twocents:
 

safeinthecar

Moderator - CPS Technician
Well, with my parents' if they didn't want to pick her up in the morning, and I didn't want to drop her off so early, I would have taken her over there the night before and let her sleep over. Of course, I trust my parents ( or my ex's parents for that matter) to take as good of care of my sick kiddo as I do. As a single mom, I've had to send my ill children off to grandparents for the duration of the illness on several occasions :( as I can't CAN'T miss work unless I'm dead and transport back and forth has not always been an option.
 

natysr

New member
I would do it. But it does sound like g-ma is being a PITA.

I wouldn't make the kid get dressed at 5 am though. I just put her in the car and tell her to go back to sleep and then put her back to bed at g-ma's house.
 

MagnificentMama

Senior Community Member
As a single mom, I've had to send my ill children off to grandparents for the duration of the illness on several occasions :( as I can't CAN'T miss work unless I'm dead and transport back and forth has not always been an option.

Sleeping over there hasn't been going so great. She gets so excited about sleeping over, but when the time comes, she calls me late at night crying that she wants to come home and misses me. She's supposed to be over there right now, but shes right next to me playing a game because she doesn't want to sleep over there. She's fine spending the entire night there, but she's unfortunately not okay with sleepovers yet.
 

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