When I met my wife she worked in a daycare. The first year we lived together she was sick all the time, and I was sick most of the time
I will probably get flamed for saying that, but it was not a coincidence. And she continued because she loved it. until the doc told her she had to stop when she became pregnant
Chelsea’s daughter started a form of pre school and a new form of “fun” began
But she is adapting how they do things and I suspect she will be just fine. And if you think some people on ST are hard on her, you should hear how hard she is on herself.
I saw that she posted looking for helmets to test, any insights you can share? I guess we’ll know when we see her at the next race. Was the Wing Dream as fast as everyone says it is?
As a father of 3 young kids, no flaming here. I think anyone who has had school age kids knows the increased incidences of a variety of sickness’s. Sounds to me that she needs to set some boundaries and have her husband/nanny take over at particular times in her season. Lionel and Sam seem to be navigating it so far, but their kids are still on the younger side and not quite the germ factories of a kindergartener and up…
There’s also a significant increase in illnesses with my friends with kids who go/went to daycare (mostly dual income families).
I bet setting boundaries will be very hard. Mom guilt > dad guilt. My sis (a physician) went part time because she wanted to spend more time with my niece and didn’t want to miss out. BTW, my BIL is a stay at home dad.
Situation for Chelsea very different from Lionel and Sam.
Pretty much defines parenthood, haha. My A races have always been Oct or Nov time frame and that’s when my kids start bringing home the winter cough, flu, snots, throwing up, throwing down, etc… I think they are finally getting some stronger immune systems with age, but yeah, every parent learns the hard way. I feel bad for her because the only option for her is isolation and that’s extremely difficult for a parent. Especially when your kid is sick and needs you.
Par for the course here…Monty is a huge contributor and everyone knows he has no ulterior motives or means no disrespect in his comments. This is the biggest reason why I rarely contribute to this forum beyond posting an occasional comment or youtube video.
Hypochondriac adult infant blamers. I don’t recall any of this stuff with our four. And if I or my better half was under the weather (rarely), blaming it on the smalls wouldn’t enter my mind.
In the public arena I think it’s bad form to blame your sickness on your loved little one(s): you have no evidence that they were actually the source. #blameculture
1.) I don’t think it’s “blame,” per se, just rational causation judgment (when it might just be correlation) when child gets sick first, then parent(s) follow suit 24-72 hours later with the same symptoms.
2.) My only comment with regard to the moderation that occurred in this thread: I recommended to Eric that Monty take a timeout. It’s been building with regard to discourse across a variety of topics over a much longer period of time than this thread.
