Speaking of essential oils...about twelve years ago, when I was a daycare parent myself, one of the centers DS had been in did something kinda weird. The owner also sold essential oils, and in her newsletter, she was touting the oils. She said that she'd had several children with respiratory illness in the previous weeks and that she'd put some oils in her humidifier or something and that they'd all been cured.

Now, one of those kids was my son, who, as soon as I found out that he had whooping cough (or was it RSV?) I pulled him for a week (I worked from home). He didn't reenter til his symptoms etc were fully gone.

But now, thinking back, I can hardly believe this owner's behavior. I know that she was including my son in her claim of the "several children" who had been cured by her oils.

Anyway...rant over. It wasn't the only slightly unethical thing this lady did.

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