Why a mother's love is always the best medicine

by Mary Feely © Herald.ie 2008
It's the phone call that every working parent dreads: "Katie has thrown up in class," the school secretary informs you. "How soon can you collect her?"
Er, after the meeting with new clients I'm supposed to be leading this afternoon? You see, usually I could ring my mother-in-law and ask her to get Katie, only she's on a mini-break in Budapest.
Sometimes the stay-at-home mum next door is willing to help out, but as it happens her own children have chickenpox. No point in asking Katie's dad to get her -- he's hanging on to his job by a thread these days.
Only, you can't say any of the above. The school doesn't want to know. A sick child has to leave the premises, so that the teacher can get on with the job at hand. Anyway, the other kids don't need your child's vomiting bug, thanks all the same.
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