How Often Do Kids Get Sick?

Viruses and child care attendance

This Halloween, I came across an Instagram reel with the caption “the scariest costume of all.” The costume, worn by a mom holding a toddler, was a T-shirt silk-screened with an image of a ringing phone. The caller? Day care.

Before kids, I would have said, I don’t get it. After kids, it resonated immediately. I recall one period in which the person who …