My 5-year-old son clearly didn’t want to go to school.
He indicated that he was very warm and it would be better to stay with grandma.
To rule out real flu, an ear thermometer was taken, unfortunately both ears scored ‘green’.
His comment at the time was: “Dad, you should just text the teacher that the thermometer is broken.”
Daan van Welie
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