Do they really do temp checks?? To be honest, this doesn't sit well with me. I find this a little over the top and a little invasive and undermining to the parent.
Totally agree with you on that one!

Our childcare centre is far too free and easy with the thermometer.

DS2 runs "hot". He's perpetually hot and sweaty with a red face because he's a two year old boy who constantly runs around, climbs and just generally acts like a two year old. When he's asleep he's "normal".

As a consequence we have been banished from the childcare centre on several occasions. A couple of times I called them on it and asked them to recheck his temp. Surprise, surprise it was normal! One such incident his temperature was taken when he woke from a sleep. He was swaddled and in a small room with three other babies. Naturally his temperature was high. Fast-forward to when I got there, my poor little mite was laying on the rug in nothing but a nappy and singlet and shivering. I immediately wrapped him back up and took his temperature ... he didn't have a fever!

Sending kids home with a snotty nose is, in my opinion, over the top.

Most of these children are in childcare because their parents work. I have felt completely guilty because I've sent my LO to childcare knowing full well that he has a bit of a cold. Face it, childcare centres are actually snot factories. It's tough when you get called to come and pick your child up because they have had to wipe his nose three times and he has "fever". Then to have to take another day off work because we have a "must stay away" period. A week ago I had that call and took him (and his so called fever) home. He spent that afternoon and the next day tearing around the house. Yes, his nose was snotty. Did he have a fever - NO. I even took him to the doctor who looked at me like an idiot and said:

Yes, we both agree that he has a bit of a cold. BUT, you can shove as much antibiotic down his neck and he won't get better quicker. Why is he sick? Because you (and I) chose to live in a cold hole. He will continue to catch a cold every winter until you move to Cairns. I prescribe him cuddles and plenty of fluids.

I asked if he was okay to go back to childcare. He said I could take the next three months off if I wanted to wait until his nose stopped running....

Would I send him to childcare if he was sick? No, absolutely not.