Winter with toddler: go insane at home or contract plagues in public

[Anonymous]

They already go to the petri dish called daycare (BTDT). You won’t pick up more bugs anywhere else. Get out and live life. If they get sick, how would you know it wasn’t from daycare?

[Anonymous]

Do outdoor things as much as possible, but don’t just stay home.

[Anonymous]

We stick to outdoor things- also have had covid, norovirus, multiple random viruses leading to preschooler ear infections in past 2 months

[Anonymous]

Library and run around outside. I hate indoor play spaces and my DD didn’t care it was cold outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They already go to the petri dish called daycare (BTDT). You won’t pick up more bugs anywhere else. Get out and live life. If they get sick, how would you know it wasn’t from daycare?

It's true that you can't know for sure. But from experience, if your kid is the first at daycare with norovirus, and you were just at an indoor playground where a kid vomited...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They already go to the petri dish called daycare (BTDT). You won’t pick up more bugs anywhere else. Get out and live life. If they get sick, how would you know it wasn’t from daycare?

It's true that you can't know for sure. But from experience, if your kid is the first at daycare with norovirus, and you were just at an indoor playground where a kid vomited...

No, you’ll never know. That’s the point.

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Anonymous wrote:They already go to the petri dish called daycare (BTDT). You won’t pick up more bugs anywhere else. Get out and live life. If they get sick, how would you know it wasn’t from daycare?

It's true that you can't know for sure. But from experience, if your kid is the first at daycare with norovirus, and you were just at an indoor playground where a kid vomited...

No, you’ll never know. That’s the point.

You think daycare is the only place your child is getting sick?

[Anonymous]

I choose to stay home. There’s already two pediatric deaths from flu this season and it’s hitting 0-5 the hardest.

[Anonymous]

Day care is far worse and germier than any other place, IME. I don’t make my kids give up trips to the trampoline park over the winter. Actually some of the trampoline parks do “toddler time” early in the mornings for just kids 5 and under and they tend not to be too crowded, so you could try that.

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Anonymous wrote:They already go to the petri dish called daycare (BTDT). You won’t pick up more bugs anywhere else. Get out and live life. If they get sick, how would you know it wasn’t from daycare?

It's true that you can't know for sure. But from experience, if your kid is the first at daycare with norovirus, and you were just at an indoor playground where a kid vomited...

No, you’ll never know. That’s the point.

You think daycare is the only place your child is getting sick?

Nooo. But if they are already going to daycare - and parents are likely going to work and bringing home everything circulating there - what is the point of staying home the rest of the time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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...

3 rounds of covid in 6 months????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 there isn’t a day that I didn’t take my toddler out to the playground. Just bundle them up well in good quality winter gear

[Anonymous]

Your kid should be playing outside.

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Anonymous wrote: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).

Yikes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

For a special treat, bring a thermos of hot chocolate and cups.