A fever a cough or stomachache - nowadays our children come down with illnesses easily and the decision to keep your sick child home can definitely be tricky. Here s when you should keep your child home from school. Picture this: You wake up on a sunny weekday morning and while you are preparing your coffee your child calls out your name in a squeaky yet tensed voice. You leave everything rush to his room only to discover that your little bundle of mischief is feeling acute ache in his stomach. You give him a pill thinking it s nothing