Keeping Kids Home From School

It's every parent’s flu season conundrum: keep ‘em home, or send ‘em to school? If you have a school-age child under your roof, chances are you’ll face the choice this winter... if you haven’t done so already.

So what to do when winter’s calling cards - the runny nose, scratchy throat and scary-sounding cough - afflict a kid near you? The decision can weigh harder on some parents’ shoulders than an overstuffed bookbag. For advice, we turn to Dr. Perri Klass. She’s a pediatrician, as well as a professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University and the mother of three.

Perri Klass in the New York Times: The Cough-and-Sniffle Question: When to Keep a Child Home? | reader comments

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