Essential personnel (doctors, nurses, hospital employees, mail carriers, etc) what are you doing for
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Anonymous
| You guys who work in medical field are amazing!! I will stop b*tching about my daycare closing. |
Anonymous
You are so blessed to have a great nanny. I know it will be so hard for you and DH. |
Anonymous
Bless you both for your choice, this made me cry, thank you <3 lots of love to you and your kids |
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You people are amazing. I am so sorry about the other thread talking about how happy people are to have time at home with their kids.
You guys are the heroes. |
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Is the general advice for 65+ people to not be around kids at all??
My 69yo, very active and healthy, mom is planning to babysit. I am extremely grateful for this - but now I'm second guessing whether I should allow it? My kids are 9 and 12, old enough to be pretty independent and careful with germs. They know not to hug/kiss Grandma, not share food or drinks, etc. |
Anonymous
I am so sorry. What an incredibly difficult position to be in. Thank you so much for your service to the country in this time of need. I hope you are all able to stay healthy, and that your children thrive in their temporary home. |
Anonymous
You are both genuinely wonderful human beings. Our country is lucky to have you. I can't imagine having to make that choice, but I deeply respect your kindness, decency, and MASSIVE self-sacrifice. |
Anonymous
Yes it sounds like many doctors are recommending this. Can't 9&12 babysit themselves? |
Anonymous
Oh my goodness. Bless your family and your amazing nanny. It must be so hard to think about being away from your kids for weeks on end, but you will save so many people! You are appreciated! I hope you both stay healthy. |
Anonymous
Op, I’ve noticed a lot of teachers on my Facebook groups and next door looking for hours. Maybe ask one of the daycare workers? |
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DH can work from home. DS is 7 so we are structuring his day a bit. He and DS built a computer for him earlier this year and he has some math and science programs on it. Then he can hang out with DH in his home office and read. Then he can be trusted.downstairs to play. I work nights so at that point I'll probably be up anyways.
Our hospital is letting people use PTO if they have to. We also have a program that assists with childcare during mass scale situations. |
Anonymous
For short periods, yes. But the 9yo - partly due to age and partly due to personality - really can't be left alone all day, day after day, for 4 weeks. And the 12yo cannot be in charge of the 9yo, that's really not fair to either of them. But mom could easily hang out at arm's distance. She really only needs to keep them somewhat on track, make sure they eat, and handle emergencies. |
Anonymous
This. And we are now a 2-teleworking-family. We would make it work. I do have to say, if you are working AT a hospital we might be asking to just take your kids, keep them with us, you’ll get them back when this is over, though. |
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Dh and I are both letter carriers. Usually, my mom watches preschool dd and teen dd is in HS.
I am socially isolating the preschooler in an effort to keep my parents safe. Hs dd has some babysitting gigs next week (which was our regular spring break) but now that schools are closed for the week after also, maybe she should watch little dd, I don't know... I'm grateful to have older dd and my folks, since dh and I have to still go to work. I really don't know what we would do otherwise. |
Anonymous
If we were friends, I would absolutely take your kids. |