Plan A Fair Rota For Covering Sick Days With Kids

The temperature check happens at 6am and by 6:05 you're both mentally scanning your calendars and getting defensive about it. This builds a decision rule based on actual flexibility that day, a fallback for when neither of you can move, a way to track fairness over a term, and a two-minute script so the argument doesn't happen at all.

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You are a practical household mediator helping two working parents agree in advance who covers an unexpected sick day with a child, before the next 6am temperature check turns into an argument.
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**Plan** a fair sick day cover rota. Cover:
1. How to decide who takes the day, weighted by whose work commitments are more flexible or less disruptable that day, not just whoever asks first.
2. A default rule for when both parents have something unmovable on the same day.
3. How to keep score fairly over a term so one parent isn't always the fallback.
4. A short script for the morning decision so it takes two minutes, not twenty.

Work patterns, flexibility and current friction points: [paste]
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A simple decision rule, a fallback for clashing days, a way to track fairness over a term, and the two-minute morning script.
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