If you’ve kept your toddler home from preschool due to omicron…

[Anonymous]

Wow, this thread and numerous others really show how screwed parents are of kids under 5. There are no good solutions and most of the time, anyone who isn't one of these parents doesn't acknowledge we exist. Public health officials pay lip service. It's an unrelenting grind and I'm so angry about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, this thread and numerous others really show how screwed parents are of kids under 5. There are no good solutions and most of the time, anyone who isn't one of these parents doesn't acknowledge we exist. Public health officials pay lip service. It's an unrelenting grind and I'm so angry about it.

I assumed we were talking about preschool and not daycare. It’s fine having your preschooler home when you have childcare. Daycare parents who depend on the childcare have it rough and face a difficult decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When do you plan to send them back? Waiting out the surge entirely, or sooner? What are your decision factors?

Wouldn't your kid be preschoolers if they go to preschool?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a preschool teacher and it’s a mess. Would quit if I could. And I’d absolutely keep my preschool age kid home if I had any alternative.

Many of my friends did this last year and their preschools did not survive financially.

Omicron seems super contagious and inevitable to get. Would keeping my DD home for 2-3 weeks truly solve anything (except maybe avoiding quarantining)?

[Anonymous]

We’re keeping our kiddo home for at least another week. After that? Who knows. We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re taking it week by week. Based on comments we’ve heard, some of the other parents at our school are in the “let’s have an omicron” party camp. We have a high-risk child. Hoping that if a bunch of them go out and get their kids sick on purpose, it will happen soon.

Well some parents have to work and can’t do that with a toddler home. And the quarantines are frustrating- I dont WANT my kid to get Covid but boy, if someone asked me whether to choose between a mild Covid case (14 day isolation) or repeated 14-day quarantines for exposure, I’d have to stop and think for a minute, you know?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’re taking it week by week. Based on comments we’ve heard, some of the other parents at our school are in the “let’s have an omicron” party camp. We have a high-risk child. Hoping that if a bunch of them go out and get their kids sick on purpose, it will happen soon.

Well some parents have to work and can’t do that with a toddler home. And the quarantines are frustrating- I dont WANT my kid to get Covid but boy, if someone asked me whether to choose between a mild Covid case (14 day isolation) or repeated 14-day quarantines for exposure, I’d have to stop and think for a minute, you know?

Pp here. All of us have to work. And I’m glad I kept my kid home because someone sent a covid+ kid to school this week and now everyone has to quarantine anyway. At least I don’t have to also worry that my kid who is too young to be vaccinated has been exposed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’re taking it week by week. Based on comments we’ve heard, some of the other parents at our school are in the “let’s have an omicron” party camp. We have a high-risk child. Hoping that if a bunch of them go out and get their kids sick on purpose, it will happen soon.

Well some parents have to work and can’t do that with a toddler home. And the quarantines are frustrating- I dont WANT my kid to get Covid but boy, if someone asked me whether to choose between a mild Covid case (14 day isolation) or repeated 14-day quarantines for exposure, I’d have to stop and think for a minute, you know?

Pp here. All of us have to work. And I’m glad I kept my kid home because someone sent a covid+ kid to school this week and now everyone has to quarantine anyway. At least I don’t have to also worry that my kid who is too young to be vaccinated has been exposed.

+1. But I am grateful that we both work from home and can trade off. Not all of the families at our daycare have that luxury- there are a couple where both parents work outside the home as teachers, doctors, etc. So I’d rather leave daycare for them right now since we can keep ours home easier.

[Anonymous]

We sent our kid, but their older siblings are in school anyway plus my kid had covid two months ago. I wouldn’t have sent my child if they had no older siblings in school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’re taking it week by week. Based on comments we’ve heard, some of the other parents at our school are in the “let’s have an omicron” party camp. We have a high-risk child. Hoping that if a bunch of them go out and get their kids sick on purpose, it will happen soon.

Well some parents have to work and can’t do that with a toddler home. And the quarantines are frustrating- I dont WANT my kid to get Covid but boy, if someone asked me whether to choose between a mild Covid case (14 day isolation) or repeated 14-day quarantines for exposure, I’d have to stop and think for a minute, you know?

Pp here. All of us have to work. And I’m glad I kept my kid home because someone sent a covid+ kid to school this week and now everyone has to quarantine anyway. At least I don’t have to also worry that my kid who is too young to be vaccinated has been exposed.

+1. But I am grateful that we both work from home and can trade off. Not all of the families at our daycare have that luxury- there are a couple where both parents work outside the home as teachers, doctors, etc. So I’d rather leave daycare for them right now since we can keep ours home easier.

This is my feeling, too. Both of us WFH with fairly flexible hours so we can keep up with work by switching off and adding a few hours in the evening/weekend. Don’t get me wrong, it sucks and I hate it, but I keep telling myself it’s temporary.