What the heck are our kids going to do this summer with no camps and no pools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are in late elementary school and middle school. Sleep-away camps are starting to be cancelled this week. Girls scouts just cancelled the entire camp summer. My daughter's Vermont sleep-away camp just canceled the summer. Pools are also announcing that they won't open.
My kid are old enough to stay at home when I work but what the heck are they going to do home alone for 14 weeks? What about families with young kids? I suppose it will be a terrific time to be a college babysitter.

They stay home and read, clean the house, learn to cook and see. There is nothing wrong with learning to do these things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am feeling really grateful to be a SAHM right now. Especially since I am now involuntarily homeschooling the kids. DH is grateful too.

Yup, only the families with dedicated FT caregivers (SAHP or nanny) are the ones able to maintain some semblance of normalcy right now.

Last year DH and I were debating between FT daycare + letting nanny go vs. PT preschool + keeping nanny. I pushed for the latter despite the extra cost and now DH is grateful that I did!

I'm confused. Do you have a nanny coming to your house right now?

[Anonymous]

We're thinking of buying an above ground pool for the backyard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher so I don’t have to work but my soon to be 10 yo usually did some camp. I’m using our current time Tm together to figure out new ways to peacefully coexist at home. My DS is a tough kid in many ways but it’s going ok.

Let him go out. He is 10, he can ride a bike to all ends of the world(within 5 miles) and grow and explore his neighborhood. You know what is sad today? That most 10 year olds can't find their house if they go on a walk 4 streets down.

Wow. The white privilege in all of this. When my kids roam around the city with their friends, DCUM calls the cops on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am feeling really grateful to be a SAHM right now. Especially since I am now involuntarily homeschooling the kids. DH is grateful too.

Yup, only the families with dedicated FT caregivers (SAHP or nanny) are the ones able to maintain some semblance of normalcy right now.

Last year DH and I were debating between FT daycare + letting nanny go vs. PT preschool + keeping nanny. I pushed for the latter despite the extra cost and now DH is grateful that I did!

I'm confused. Do you have a nanny coming to your house right now?

Of course! As do all the people I know with nannies. We would be idiots not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am feeling really grateful to be a SAHM right now. Especially since I am now involuntarily homeschooling the kids. DH is grateful too.

Yup, only the families with dedicated FT caregivers (SAHP or nanny) are the ones able to maintain some semblance of normalcy right now.

Last year DH and I were debating between FT daycare + letting nanny go vs. PT preschool + keeping nanny. I pushed for the latter despite the extra cost and now DH is grateful that I did!

I'm confused. Do you have a nanny coming to your house right now?

Of course! As do all the people I know with nannies. We would be idiots not to.

I have a nanny who is not coming (and being paid). It’s additional exposure that is irresponsible to society IMHO. If she lived with you that would be one thing but otherwise no.

[Anonymous]

We have a big fenced back yard. We have an inflatable pool, small, but big enough for my two STB 9 YOs. We also have a long water slide. I can set those up so that if they want to be outside with water, they can play with the pool, the slide and have water gun battles (we have some of those water tubes that shoot water). We have bikes and scooters. Since we can't take skating lessons now, I'm thinking about getting them roller blades to keep up. We have tennis rackets and our neighborhood has private courts that have not been closed down. There aren't that many people who use them, so hopefully we can find a time when there aren't others using the courts.

They can do things in the yard and driveway while we're working. Biking away from the house and tennis will have to be evenings and weekends when we're not working. And they have the Nintendo Switch and shows they like on Amazon Prime and books and some home crafts they like. We'll be fine. It will be hard, and I may be doing a bit more with them during the day, but fortunately, my employer allows me to flex my time so that as long as I get 80 hours in over 2 weeks, I'm okay. I may be working more evenings and weekends, but I'll find a way to make it work.

[Anonymous]

We’ll just be doing what we’re doing now. DCPS keeps all of its learning apps up over the summer, so we’ll still have access to those, and we already go one long bike rides together, so that will continue too. So long as we can continue to telework fulltime, we’ll be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am feeling really grateful to be a SAHM right now. Especially since I am now involuntarily homeschooling the kids. DH is grateful too.

Yup, only the families with dedicated FT caregivers (SAHP or nanny) are the ones able to maintain some semblance of normalcy right now.

Last year DH and I were debating between FT daycare + letting nanny go vs. PT preschool + keeping nanny. I pushed for the latter despite the extra cost and now DH is grateful that I did!

I'm confused. Do you have a nanny coming to your house right now?

Of course! As do all the people I know with nannies. We would be idiots not to.

I have a nanny who is not coming (and being paid). It’s additional exposure that is irresponsible to society IMHO. If she lived with you that would be one thing but otherwise no.

Those who keep their social distancing nannies at home are idiots, IMHO. But if they want to feel like a do-gooder, power to them.

[Anonymous]

News on county summer camps in Loudoun County should be coming by 15 May.

https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/160172/41620-Letter-to-Camp-Parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a big fenced back yard. We have an inflatable pool, small, but big enough for my two STB 9 YOs. We also have a long water slide. I can set those up so that if they want to be outside with water, they can play with the pool, the slide and have water gun battles (we have some of those water tubes that shoot water). We have bikes and scooters. Since we can't take skating lessons now, I'm thinking about getting them roller blades to keep up. We have tennis rackets and our neighborhood has private courts that have not been closed down. There aren't that many people who use them, so hopefully we can find a time when there aren't others using the courts.

They can do things in the yard and driveway while we're working. Biking away from the house and tennis will have to be evenings and weekends when we're not working. And they have the Nintendo Switch and shows they like on Amazon Prime and books and some home crafts they like. We'll be fine. It will be hard, and I may be doing a bit more with them during the day, but fortunately, my employer allows me to flex my time so that as long as I get 80 hours in over 2 weeks, I'm okay. I may be working more evenings and weekends, but I'll find a way to make it work.

What kind of water slide do you have? I just bought an inflatable pool because I'm afraid there will be a run on them if more pools start announcing they won't be opening. We have a little plastic slide but I'm wondering if I should get a larger inflatable one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:News on county summer camps in Loudoun County should be coming by 15 May.

https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/160172/41620-Letter-to-Camp-Parents

They do not sound optimistic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are in late elementary school and middle school. Sleep-away camps are starting to be cancelled this week. Girls scouts just cancelled the entire camp summer. My daughter's Vermont sleep-away camp just canceled the summer. Pools are also announcing that they won't open.
My kid are old enough to stay at home when I work but what the heck are they going to do home alone for 14 weeks? What about families with young kids? I suppose it will be a terrific time to be a college babysitter.

The same thing many thousands of kids do every summer who don't go to camp or have a swimming pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:News on county summer camps in Loudoun County should be coming by 15 May.

https://www.loudoun.gov/DocumentCenter/View/160172/41620-Letter-to-Camp-Parents

They do not sound optimistic.

I read just the opposite into that. Camps will happen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a big fenced back yard. We have an inflatable pool, small, but big enough for my two STB 9 YOs. We also have a long water slide. I can set those up so that if they want to be outside with water, they can play with the pool, the slide and have water gun battles (we have some of those water tubes that shoot water). We have bikes and scooters. Since we can't take skating lessons now, I'm thinking about getting them roller blades to keep up. We have tennis rackets and our neighborhood has private courts that have not been closed down. There aren't that many people who use them, so hopefully we can find a time when there aren't others using the courts.

They can do things in the yard and driveway while we're working. Biking away from the house and tennis will have to be evenings and weekends when we're not working. And they have the Nintendo Switch and shows they like on Amazon Prime and books and some home crafts they like. We'll be fine. It will be hard, and I may be doing a bit more with them during the day, but fortunately, my employer allows me to flex my time so that as long as I get 80 hours in over 2 weeks, I'm okay. I may be working more evenings and weekends, but I'll find a way to make it work.

What kind of water slide do you have? I just bought an inflatable pool because I'm afraid there will be a run on them if more pools start announcing they won't be opening. We have a little plastic slide but I'm wondering if I should get a larger inflatable one.

Our HOA won't allow inflatable pools except the little kiddie pools.