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   SusanSunshine said, 9 months ago

   Sounds like my Mom…. no matter how sick I was, she always said “Go to school and you’ll feel better.”

   
   She believed fervently in education.
   And that children were natural-born malingerers.
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   rshive said, 9 months ago

   For those of us who are a little older, there was a time when the only thing that would keep you from school was “having something.” The something had to be pretty obvious and could be generally be identified by someone without a medical background, e.g. mothers. “Not feeling good” didn’t make the cut.
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   prasrinivara said, 9 months ago

   Agnes, Grandma has already been through this with either your dad or your mum (and probably learnt the hard way from her own mum).
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   Doctor Toon said, 9 months ago

   Most kids play sick to avoid something at school they don’t want to deal with, like a test
   

   
   I selected my “sick” days for times when I knew there was nothing much going on that I needed to be involved in
   

   
   Seems like I was always ahead of most of the rest of the class so every now and then I chose to stay home out of boredom
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   Shyygirl27 said, 9 months ago

   I used to cry and take forever getting ready until my aunt (who raised me) said fine stay home but stay in your room. Only worked once or twice per school year.
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   Pacopuddy said, 9 months ago

   Tumultuous lips are not to be scoffed at:They can lead to turbulent tonsils or even a terpsichorean trachea. Grandma won’t be laughing then.
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   Ralph Fisher said, 9 months ago

   gradma great make the kid go to school
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 9 months ago

   Unfortunately, there’s no “sick leave” in schools.
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   lightenup said, 9 months ago

   @Pacopuddy

   LOL!!
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    lightenup said, 9 months ago

    Just this morning, I had to listen to my neighbor’s kid complain about school. His older sister said that he doesn’t like school because it’s too long. The kid is only in Kindergarten! Meanwhile this is the kid who has all sorts of energy at home, causing trouble everywhere.
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    Stephen Gilberg said, 9 months ago

    Agnes has lips?
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    DavidHuieGreen said, 9 months ago

    Hard to believe Agnes would ever have problems controlling her lips.
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    She does so well, normally.
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    Comic Minister said, 9 months ago

    I never see Agnes open her mouth before. And she thinks she is sick too.
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    thebird55 said, 9 months ago

    I quickly learned that staying home wasn’t fun. In my house, if you were too sick to go to school, you were too sick to (fill in the blank).
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    rshive said, 9 months ago

    @Pacopuddy

    They sound serious. I’m not sure I’d want to get terpsichorean trachea, even if I knew what it is.
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