Working parents admit ‘pulling a sickie’ just to look after their poorly child

PARENTS person admitted to taking clip disconnected enactment to look aft their poorly child.

The latest findings person revealed that 2 successful 5 moving mums and dads person ‘pulled a sickie’ conscionable to look aft their sick kid.

A canvass of 1,000 employed parents with children aged 16 and nether recovered 57 per cent consciousness blameworthy astir taking clip disconnected enactment to attraction for their small ones erstwhile they are nether the weather.

And 81 per cent of parents anticipation employers would see being much flexible with moving arrangements to accommodate sick children.

Dads were recovered to beryllium much apt to prevarication to their leader astir the crushed for taking a sick time to look aft their kid than mums.

Rachel Ramsden, marque manager astatine Olbas, which commissioned the research, said: “Parents are perpetually juggling the demands of enactment and household life, but erstwhile a household comes down with a bug, the unit tin consciousness overwhelming.

“Many parents are forced to telephone successful sick to attraction for their children, adding accent to already demanding jobs.

“Our probe highlights conscionable however resilient modern parents request to be, with truthful galore moving full-time portion besides managing the unpredictability of household health.

“In this time and age, having a beardown enactment web – whether it's grandparents oregon adjacent friends –can marque each the quality erstwhile everything starts to consciousness similar excessively much.”

The survey besides recovered 72 per cent consciousness similar they person nary prime but to ‘power through’ erstwhile they are ill.

With parents taking disconnected an mean of 3 days each twelvemonth to look aft their queasy offspring.

And 39 per cent of mums are much apt to telephone connected the grandparents to assistance with childcare if they hap to autumn sick compared to 30 per cent of dads. 

It besides emerged 64 per cent assertion their ain wellness suffers owed to needing to attraction for their sick children, with 65 per cent claiming it's similar a domino effect successful their location erstwhile 1 idiosyncratic gets sick.

While 62 per cent said their child’s schoolhouse oregon nursery calls them arsenic soon arsenic their children get a cold.

The first-born kid was typically recovered to beryllium the archetypal idiosyncratic successful a family to get sick aft the summertime holidays, followed by mum and the second-born kid and yet dad.

Colds (47 per cent), coughs (39 per cent) and sore throats (22 per cent) were the astir communal ailments parents are picking up from their small ones.

The research, carried retired via OnePoll.com, besides revealed 23 per cent of mums simply transportation connected arsenic normal, portion 16 per cent of dads volition absorption connected self-care similar hydration and nutrition.

But 78 per cent of parents said it takes them longer to get implicit an unwellness erstwhile they don’t instrumentality the clip to remainder and recover.

NHS GP Dr Roger Henderson, who has teamed with Olbas, said: “It's indispensable to perceive to your assemblage and instrumentality clip disconnected if you're feeling tally down, arsenic aboriginal signs of unwellness - specified arsenic fatigue, headaches, oregon a scratchy pharynx - tin beryllium easy overlooked successful engaged lives.

“Flexible and supportive enactment environments assistance individuals, particularly parents, equilibrium responsibilities portion maintaining their health.

“Generationally, older adults and young children are peculiarly susceptible to colds and flu, making it adjacent much important for them to prioritise remainder and recovery.