Does your young child have a hard time wearing a mask?
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Anonymous
| I agree with the others about trying different styles. The snug ones don't work any better than the looser cloth or disposable ones. Use those instead. My kids have zero problems with those. |
Anonymous
| My 6 year old is ok for about a couple hours before she starts messing with it, my 10 year old complains more than her. My almost 3 year old will not keep his on, we got him a face shield hat and that stays on longer but for places where masks(not just facial coverings) are required this will not work. Luckily he hasn’t needed his much but I’m curious how my older kids will handle it at school. My kids like the disposable type the most and feel like they can breathe a little better. |
Anonymous
| My children hate them so we just don’t go anywhere where they have to wear them. |
Anonymous
We struggled to find masks to fit our 2-year-old daughter as well. I wound up finding a 2-pack of masks in the checkout line at Whole Foods one day, and bought them because they had some in pink and my daughter had been asking for a pink mask. Well after I washed them, they fit her perfectly. They are very soft cotton and have a little pinched gather where the nose goes, so they are comfortable and don't come up too high (all the other masks we have found for her come up to her eyeballs). They didn't have a brand on them, but I would check Whole Foods to see if yours carries them. I also think the sets from Maisonette look like they might be the same brand. I will say these masks seem thinner than the ones my husband and I wear -- they appear to be just two layers of fabric instead of three, and no place to put a filter. But I don't worry about it as much with her -- we very rarely take her indoors anywhere public (maybe a couple short trips into CVS during one of our walks), and when we do she is generally in her stroller so we can keep her away from others. The main reason we have her wear the masks is to get her used to them because we have no idea how long we'll be wearing them. Plus it's been a good way to just normalize her seeing other people wearing them and has just become a part of our lives, along with more frequent and thorough hand washing and social distancing. We figure the more normal it all feels the less likely it is to impact her developmentally. Because she's so young, I sometimes think she the one of us least affected by this whole thing. |
Anonymous
| My 3 year old happily wears one but we rarely take her anywhere that requires it. (She won’t need it at preschool in the fall—and FWIW I wouldn’t send her if it was required at this age but would for elementary school.) But she happily wore it today for 30 minutes for her first trip to Target since the pandemic started and wears it into Starbucks or the local farm stand now and then. |
Anonymous
| We have been VERY strict about playgrounds and other outings. DC knows that the ONLY way he gets to go to parks is if he puts on the mask. He’s very eager to wear it. So far, we are starting with a few minutes at a time ( e.g. when we encounter others on a hiking trail). We are going to reintroduce playgrounds as a mask-required activity to help him build up tolerance before school. I hope it works! |
Anonymous
| The only time they've worn them is going to the dentist. They hate them. So I just don't bring them anywhere that requires them. |
Anonymous
Then keep them at home. |
Anonymous
So you have no problem risking their lives and lives of others just because your snowflakes don't like wearing a mask! |
Anonymous
That’s not what she said. |
Anonymous
I do have a problem with that, which is why I said
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Anonymous
| You're the parent and when you tell them to weat a mask, they do so without whining. |