The school called and I just picked up my "sick" son.

[crim son]

He's not sick, the little malingerer! And now he's here I need to look busy. :grr:

[plcdude]

1. why

what were you doing? :evilgrin:

[crim son]

4. Sitting on my behind, looking at pics of tatgerguy's behind.

:evilgrin:

[taterguy]

10. Taterguy's behind is posted here? Where?

[crim son]

11. In me mind's eye. n/t

[Blue-Jay]

19. Is that the same thing as "burned into my retinas"?

[Deja Q]

27. Wanna see my tater?

:spray:

[crim son]

28. hehehe.

Yeah. I do. :)

[mzteris]

2. My kids each tried that

ONCE.

When they're really sick - they get to lay on the couch and watch tv and I wait on them hand and foot.

When they're pretending to be sick - they have to lay in bed, lights off, no books, and I pretty much ignore them except to make sure they're doing NOTHING.

[crim son]

7. That would be the correct approach!

I guess I'm indulging him. He's eating an apple and playing with legos and I'm allowing it to happen. :(

[Esra Star]

29. Good practice, if they ever end up in Gitmo.

:sarcasm:

[Scarlett17]

3. After near perfect attendance in elementary school,

my son discovered that "my head hurts" and a pathetic look on your face will get you out of class in middle school. After the third call in month, I said I was making a doctor's appointment the next time. That was in October--hasn't happened since. Scammer!

P.S. Lest anyone jump my case about vision exams, brain tumors, etc., his "headache" would miraculously disappear within 30 minutes of getting home and eating something. Upon further interrogation I found out he was skipping lunch to play basketball. Again I say, Scammer!

[crim son]

9. Laughing.

My oldest son would call once weekly with a "stomach ache" (exactly what Henry claimed today) but I think he actually had one. He'd lie down in the nurse's office for thirty minutes and then he'd be good to go. Maybe his brother suffers from the same affliction.

Skipping lunch to play basketball! What kind of child are you raising?! :P

[Scarlett17]

14. A jock!

If I could devise a point system for eating where he could conceivably "win" he might have more interest.

[Coyote_Bandit]

5. My mother

was a med tech and worked in a medical clinic. The rule in our house was that if you are too sick to be in school then you are sick enough that you need to see the doctor. Of course, we kids did not realize at the time that mom and dad had known the good doctor long before he had enrolled in medical school. A school absence always meant a trip to see the doctor. He had a pretty good eye for fakers. Faking it invariably resulted in dropping ones pants and bending over to get a shot. Real illnesses usually were treated with antibiotics.

I suppose there probably are some distasteful yet fairly harmless substances available that could serve the same purpose without a trip to see a doctor.

[crim son]

12. Oooh, that would have cured me, for sure.

If Henry does this again I will be considering various deterrents.

[SteppingRazor]

6. Ha! From grades 1-5 or so, I must've done that at least once a month...

if not more often. I think I was in the nurse's office more than the classroom. :P

[crim son]

13. And you turned out okay, right?

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

16. Define "okay"

:evilgrin:

[mainegreen]

8. Fakeitis is a serios condition and not to be taken lightly!

:rofl:

[crim son]

15. My med terminology course informs me that you are referring to

"inflammation of the fake" and yes indeed, I'm not going to mess around! :7

[Samurai_Writer]

17. My mom was an RN... we couldn't ever fake being sick!

The rule in our house was "If you don't have a fever, you have to go to school!" And no, heating up the thermometer in various ways did not work. Besides, I think I tried that once and burned the hell out of my tongue!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Jokes aside...

it could be an indicator there's something stressing him out at school.

[Dangerously Amused]

20. Good point. Or at home.

Maybe he's not so much trying to avoid school as to get "Mom Time."


Just a thought. 'Cuz I pulled that scam when I was a kid and feeling especially vulnerable about something, but was unable to address it directly.

[crim son]

21. That is a good point, or, as DA says, at home.

Happily, he asked to be returned to school at noon. Whatever was bothering him, he's cured!

[Little Wing]

22. Pay a doctor some money to stop over with his "dr." bag and a pair of clippers

and say the sickness is due to his hair and it all has to go

[crim son]

23. Different son!

:rofl:

He went back to school at lunchtime anyway. A short-term stomach ache, just like I told the school "nurse".

[BarenakedLady]

24. Scammer...

Luckily my kids haven't thought of that yet. LoL. It's only a matter of time.

:hi:

[crim son]

25. Your time will come.

How are you, My Lady? Is it snowing where you are? Plans for St. Patrick's? And... who is "Brian"? :rofl:

[Parche]

26. sick

Is he Crimson son?