Posted on 09/12/2012 8:07:37 PM PDT by Condor 63
It's a dilemma that many working moms face: What do you do when your child is too sick to go to school but you have a can't-miss obligation at the office?
For Adrienne Pine, a single mom and an assistant professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., the choice seemed clear. When her infant daughter woke up with a fever on August 28, the first day of Pine's class on Sex, Gender and Culture, Pine decided to bring her baby along.
Everything went smoothly for the first part of the 75-minute long lecture.
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"If it walks like a duck...," tough guy.
Breastfeeding is recommended for a minimum of a year.
Yes, I forgot to address that. And you remind me of a Dr. I once had. He told me he hated his pediatric rotation because he stayed sick the whole time! I thought that was funny, but it’s true. When my kids first started school we all did catch a lot of stuff. And the first year I taught (after mine were in college) I was sick a lot. And heck, that was HIGH SCHOOL kids!
I didn’t see the age of the child mentioned.
I didn’t either, but a baby of 8 months could be crawling around making trouble. :)
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