How are you guys navigating the pandemic with kids
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Anonymous
| Are you doing indoor activities/outdoor/playdates? We have been staying home the last three weekends, and I feel extremely guilty, but want to be safe during the height of the cases. |
Anonymous
| We’re doing everything. But we don’t use daycare or hang out with anyone high risk. |
Anonymous
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We don't go to public places (museums, restaurants, etc.) where we just have no idea what the health situation is of the people present. But we've done playdates pretty much every weekend this month except one weekend where our own kid had cold symptoms (negative Covid test, but we're not going to expose friends to any virus). Our kid has been going to preschool and also attending their once-a-week activity. Both require masks, the adults are all vaccinated, and there are rules around testing. I was a little stressed about it, but I guess we've been lucky.
Part of it for us is that while we definitely don't want Covid, I think we've reached a point where we're really not THAT afraid of getting it either. We don't want to accidentally spread it and we are taking lots of precautions (again no public places, masks, we're vaccinated and boosted, we don't hang out with unvaccinated people, etc.). But that extra step of totally disrupting our lives to stay home like we did before? The threat doesn't feel like it merits it. So far it's worked out. Everyone in our family gets tested weekly and DH has to do a PCR for work, and we've never had a positive. Hopefully it stays that way. |
Anonymous
| We were being super careful during the surge. Got it anyways — we have kids in prek and elementary — I’m sure they caught it there. Now I’ll go back to play dates/indoor play places etc. |
Anonymous
| Doing everything, but I stay at home with my 2.5 year old (not in day care/preschool) and my 6 year old is vaccinated. The biggest risk to everyone is probably my husband, who works in person, sometimes uses public transit/sometimes carpools, and is going back to travel in the spring. It is what it is. |
Anonymous
We're doing fine now. It was rough the first 4-6 months as we were getting used to it, but now that our world has shrunk we've made the best of things. Getting a bounce house helped a lot. 
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Anonymous
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I must be a total outlier here but we’ve been doing fine. We’re outside most of the weekends and playing games at home when it’s too cold. We don’t go to any public indoor space. No play dates.
It’s been good really. Baking, art projects, making Valentine’s gifts for grandparents, reading. Kids are 3 and 1.5. We didn’t even turn on the TV this weekend except football which neither kid is interested in. Aren’t we all used to this by now? I am. |
Anonymous
Your kids are young enough that they are ok with out peer interaction yet, which is great for you. For kids 4-5 they really need to interact with other kids at least some to develop properly. Parents are struggling to meet that need. |
Anonymous
I don’t understand what you feel guilty about, OP. We’re doing outdoor activities with others and having fun inside with our kids. I can’t imagine why I’d feel guilty. |
Anonymous
| No play dates or public spaces here, just family and outdoor time on weekends for me. But my kids are newborn and 2 so they don’t need a lot of socialization at the moment; it’d be different if they were older I expect. |
Anonymous
4-5 year olds need peer interaction on weekends? Since when? |
Anonymous
Oh sorry, I thought you were home all the time. If your kids are in preschool don’t they ask for play dates with friends? Mine definitely did by 3. But yeah if they are seeing kids at preschool that helps a lot. |
Anonymous
Yes, 3.5 yr old is in four hour a day preschool but never asks to see anyone (but us) on weekends. DH and I keep them occupied. |
Anonymous
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Outside every day for at least 2 hours. We go places as a family but rarely have playdates. A poster in a different thread hit the nail on the head that larger events where contract chasing isn't being done is a small risk when it comes to quarantines because you're only going to quarantine if you could have positive test and are symptomatic. Conversely having small play dates you would know if someone test positive and then you'd have to test and quarantine for any little cold.
We go to large well ventilated spaces or spaces that have limits on people. DC has actually been great to go into because of the vaccination requirement. We wear masks. We test as needed. I can't continue to see adults go about their lives and keep my kid hidden away. We don't do many things but what we do things that he's interested in. As long as the weather is above 40 we basically stay outside it's only when it's super cold recently that we've been doing more indoor activities. |
Anonymous
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We limit indoor stuff and we're outdoorsy anyway so we go outside when feasible, even if briefly/bundled up. We were traveling (domestically) but didn't take any trips this month during the worst of Omicron.
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