Winter with toddler: go insane at home or contract plagues in public
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Anonymous
| Which do you choose? DD goes to daycare so we are already getting sick constantly. When we're well it's tempting to go out and do things instead of being cooped up at home, but everywhere with little kids is a germ factory this time of year and I don't really want HFM or the flu on top of the three rounds of covid and 2 rounds of norovirus we've gotten in the last 6 months... |
Anonymous
| Bundle your kid up in a winter coat, hat, and gloves. Go for a winter walk on a nice trail with a pond and playground. Get the kid moving outdoors. Walk. It'll do you good, too. |
Anonymous
| We stay home. There are some great kid yoga/ movement videos we do. We do lots of canning of fruits and generally practice a season of mindfulness. I have kids ages 1 - 10 and we enjoy the slow season with books and projects around the home (teach the older kids to sew/ knit and the younger ones learn basic home management skills). |
Anonymous
| Playgrounds, flat walking trails, indoor pools (high ceilings, not breathing on one another) |
Anonymous
This. Get outside. Being in the sun and fresh air for a few hours is good for you. And if you’re catching everything from daycare you need to work on your defense system. Increase probiotics for the family, humidifiers at night, windows open every morning for 5 minutes, wash your child’s hands before you leave daycare, and then minute you’re home they need their face washed/or in the tub and new clothes on. |
Anonymous
| I've raised two kids and we never got that sick, and sometimes we did just stay home during breaks to relax. You need to implement better hygiene, and you need to learn to deal with your kid at home. |
Anonymous
Sounds like Little House On The Prairie. |
Anonymous
Someone read about hygge during the pandemic. |
Anonymous
| If they are in day care, what is the issue? |
Anonymous
| My kids (and dh) all preferred to be out and during the toddler / preschool phase. At home they would fight and get annoyingly bored and make messes. We never did bounce house type places (ie mega germ factories) but we preferred to take our chances with germs and not be cooped up. We did a mix of indoor and outdoor activities. YMMV. |
Anonymous
| We did a combination, some stuff at friends houses, some things indoors, like toddler time at the library or Gymboree classes, and outside a lot too. Go for walks, let them pick up sticks, splash in puddles, look at leaves, meet a friend at a playground. If you’re cold wear better clothing. |
Anonymous
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Not everywhere— go to the park or the playground or the library (slightly more risk but not as bad as those play places).
Daycare is going to be the biggest risk of course but that’s fine. |
Anonymous
Sounds like someone who doesnt living a condo. |
Anonymous
| It’s not that hard. Take your kid outside to a park to go running, climbing and play outdoors. I agree, I avoid indoor places because they are gross but, kids need to play. |
Anonymous
Sounds brutal. I always wonder about people like this who act live the DC winter weather is an insurmountable wall of Arctic air. Go outside, you're probably Vitamin D deficient. It's not that cold here. |