Are you letting your teen have a friend over to hang out for a bit?

[Anonymous]

I may have to start saying it’s time to not hang out together. I have a basement full of kids who keep raiding the fridge. I need a break and telling them to not socialize for a bit may help me out.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I may have to start saying it’s time to not hang out together. I have a basement full of kids who keep raiding the fridge. I need a break and telling them to not socialize for a bit may help me out.

Ha ha! That is so... suburban! I remember hanging out in one friend’s basement when I was a tween. Paneling and a bar? The powder room with novelty toilet paper? God, the “finished basement”.

Anyway, you’re being ridiculously irresponsible and a lousy parent, PP, but you already know that.

But honestly thank you for the throwback memory!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One friend is fine. Heard some doctor on the radio actually recommend it, the boost to the psyche would then boost immune system

Any "doctor" who uses the term "boost the immune system" is a quack to begin with.

The NYT disagrees:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/well/live/can-i-boost-my-immune-system.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage[/quote
Oh, a single source from some newspaper disagrees so it MUST be true

[Anonymous]

If you must, let them hang out OUTSIDE. Going inside the house, eating together and being in close proximity is the worst you can do. Have your kids go on a walk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Facetime. Easy.

Some kids are meeting up on cul-de-sacs and parking 10ft from one another and talking from their trunks (I've seen the videos from friends). Others are hiking with 10ft string between them and the kids have to keep it taught the whole time.

We haven't tried those things. We're Facetiming.

Ha! I think hiking with the taut 10 foot string is genius!

[Anonymous]

Someone I know posted in IG about her teenager using hashtag flatteningthecurve meanwhile her DD’s friend is in the background hanging out. LOL!

[Anonymous]

So hard to isolate when there are pictures on social media of other kids hanging out. Even if its "meet up on the street."

Guess what? There's no reason to be driving around at all. So driving to another neighborhood, going to the gas station and possibly having an issue, well, none of it is worth it.

It's just been a few days people. Schools continue to have to send emails telling families to stop getting together. How is this even a tough call? Sure, our teens think it's unfair, and we know it's a rotten deal, but, as the parents, this just isn't even a close call. Keep your kids at home. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:No. You need to make hard choices and sacrifices for the greater good. You also need to protect your children.

I’m proud that my family is making the harder choice to social distance. Some people don’t have the option to do the right thing (health care aides in nursing homes with families at home; nurses, doctors, hospital staffs; grocery store workers, mail carriers, cops...) Those of us who have the option should stay home and away from other people because essential workers can’t. It’s the only way to flatten the curve.

No hysteria here. Just social responsibility.

THIS

+2 Why can’t people understand this? More importantly, why don’t they care?

Absolutely. I think everyone that doesn't is of low intelligence, they just don't get it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like there are two camps on this thread:

People who are following all current recommendations and laws currently in place in their respective jurisdictions.

People who want to scold the first group into engaging in some more stringent social distancing behavior, based solely on their own personal opinions.

I live in DC, and the current recommendations allow socializing in small groups. Talk to the Mayor if you want that to change.

You are the worst of DC. What an entitled, short-sighted moron... with no values or character. Carry on.

Talk to the mayor? THINK for yourself.

[Anonymous]

Are people/parents finally getting that it is not okay for kids to hang out with others at all?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are people/parents finally getting that it is not okay for kids to hang out with others at all?

My teen has been outside to take out the trash and twice to walk the neighborhood (w/me) keeping social distance. Friday marks two weeks of no school and this pattern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are people/parents finally getting that it is not okay for kids to hang out with others at all?

I don’t think so, it’s 3/28 and the neighbor behind our alley continues to have small gatherings over on her back deck (where adults attempt to stand apart from each other holding a glass of wine and kind of talk/shout across the circle). Her teen daughter is doing the same with 2-3 different friends who bike over, they hang out, and then they take off together into the neighborhood.

I have a kid the same age and have not allowed him to see any of his friends, and I feel bad for my kid, but when I see others having social gatherings, I do wonder if maybe I’m the one who’s over reacting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I may have to start saying it’s time to not hang out together. I have a basement full of kids who keep raiding the fridge. I need a break and telling them to not socialize for a bit may help me out.

Ha ha! That is so... suburban! I remember hanging out in one friend’s basement when I was a tween. Paneling and a bar? The powder room with novelty toilet paper? God, the “finished basement”.

Anyway, you’re being ridiculously irresponsible and a lousy parent, PP, but you already know that.

But honestly thank you for the throwback memory!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are people/parents finally getting that it is not okay for kids to hang out with others at all?

We are not in isolation yet.