What are your family and kid COVID19 protocols/restrictions?

[Anonymous]

We're rational enough to decide that camps, outdoor playdates, and playgrounds are not going to happen for our family until 2021.

Do you mean rational enough for your family, in terms of outdoor play dates, or that anyone who allows them is irrational? My son has mental health issues, and being allowed to bike with one or two friends has been a lifeline for him. He went from binge eating and being unable to sleep when we completely socially isolated, to being back to his usual self when we allowed this.

[Anonymous]

Two attorneys. Three kids age 2 to 7. Working from home, kids not going to camp.

Yes, outdoor play dates
Yes, playgrounds with breaks for hand sanitizer
Yes, babysitter now and in fall
Yes, school in the fall
Yes, grocery store every other week and delivery twice a week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We're rational enough to decide that camps, outdoor playdates, and playgrounds are not going to happen for our family until 2021.

Do you mean rational enough for your family, in terms of outdoor play dates, or that anyone who allows them is irrational? My son has mental health issues, and being allowed to bike with one or two friends has been a lifeline for him. He went from binge eating and being unable to sleep when we completely socially isolated, to being back to his usual self when we allowed this.

DP and yeah, not allowing peer interaction for one of our kids especially would have been really irrational, at least if we took her mental health into account (which we do).

I'm glad your son is feeling better, PP. Our oldest did a 180 once we started allowing outdoor socialization, too, thank goodness.

[Anonymous]

One DD5. I own my own fitness company. I am also a studying stats nationally and internationally on this daily from a variety of sources, not including media.

1) yes to camp, she is there now
2) no to out of state family
3)yes
4)yes

[Anonymous]

I’m in hospital administration and DH is in research. We are both currently working from home with a 7 yr old and 20 month old. It’s the protocol of my hospital not to have parents of young children physically return to work.

No to all your queries. No camp and no preschool. No visiting relatives or friends. We are lucky to have a great yard and open green space outside our house so the kids get lots of time outside. We have remote classes for both.

I understand we are one of the more restrictive families and it’s tough but knowing the COVID 19 cases in my hospital has me beyond cautious!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As for my background: PhD in a biomedical field, and I work in research, but currently WFH full time. My DH is working outside the home 5 days per week. Kids.
are elementary age.

My personal opinion is that we need to be more cautious than current phase 2 allows for. For instance, you couldn't pay me to eat inside a restaurant right now, even at half capacity. I am less cautious about outdoor situations.
Our goal should be to keep cases down so that school can be more in-person this fall.

1) sending them to camp if it opens--no.
2) visiting family in a state that is less cautious about distancing--yes, we are doing this, but staying only with family in a relatively isolated beach house.
3) considering outdoor playdates--my daughter has done socially distanced walks with friends outside. But mostly she does facetime.
4) playground visits-no.

Wait so you’re more ok with outdoor situations, but a playground is a no? What if there’s no one else there? You allow outdoor play dates and visits to family, but not playgrounds?

Playgrounds are the definition of high touch surfaces - NP

So that’s why there are tons of outbreaks in the preschools, where playgrounds have been open the whole time. Oh wait ... there haven’t been any.

Don’t be obtuse. A preschool has a fixed population using the equipment. Open playgrounds will entail hundreds of families, especially if nannies and such are mixed in.

[Anonymous]

But there's NO evidence of the virus getting on a surface, and then being touched by someone else, and then that person getting sick...is there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m in hospital administration and DH is in research. We are both currently working from home with a 7 yr old and 20 month old. It’s the protocol of my hospital not to have parents of young children physically return to work.

No to all your queries. No camp and no preschool. No visiting relatives or friends. We are lucky to have a great yard and open green space outside our house so the kids get lots of time outside. We have remote classes for both.

I understand we are one of the more restrictive families and it’s tough but knowing the COVID 19 cases in my hospital has me beyond cautious!

How are you both working full time from home while also full time entertaining a 7 year old and a toddler?

What kind of remote classes is your 20 month old taking?

[Anonymous]

We are both physicians and have a live in au pair.

Our boys (9 and 11) are going to do summer little league. We are renting a beach house with family. We are getting together with friends. The adults stay apart but the kids play. They are playing outside in the neighborhood. Virginia has been pretty strict with their restrictions so we are following the guidelines, but not doing MORE than the guidelines require.

We feel the very small risk of COVID is much less significant than the much higher mental health risk that comes with their life being canceled for the foreseeable future. And past vaccine timelines make a vaccine coming soon highly unlikely, despite all the hoopla. I hope I'm wrong about that.

[Anonymous]

My kids are 3 and 1.5 and we are in MoCo.

1) No camp this summer for my eldest - he was supposed to go to his preschool's day camp but it's been cancelled. We did not try to find another camp. Both kids are at home with our nanny.
2) No to visiting our out of state family. They aren't really social-distancing and my SIL is in the medical field.
3) No playdates - our normal playdate buddies aren't really social distancing
4) Maybe on the playground visits... depending on how the numbers are looking. I can get the 3 year old to keep his hands clean etc, but the 1.5 year old is teething and EVERYTHING goes in her mouth right now. So leaning towards no.

For kids that are older and can practice decent hygiene, I can see being a bit more lenient.

We'll revisit in a couple of months. If my eldest's preschool reopens in the fall, we are strongly considering sending him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two Feds, so probably can be labeled as risk adverse (advanced degrees in quantitative subjects but not biology)

We have been SIP as we have high risk household member (autoimmune). We go for walks and bike rides as a family, enjoy the backyard, and EVERYTHING is delivered, so we haven’t been inside any other structure since March.

We talk with friends over Zoom, kids (13 and 9) connect with their friends regularly over zoom, but they are definitely loosing touch with some friends. We have swung by some friends and talked in the driveway, social distancing but no masks b/c with the distance it was too hard to be heard.

No neighborhood friends, so can’t create a useful pod with another SIP family.

1) No camp
2) Thinking of visiting family but unsure how to get there safely
3) No playgrounds
4) Outdoor play dates would be socially distanced, which suggests we won’t have any b/c everyone else seems to be moving forward

It seems like the rest of the world has forgotten about the pandemic, and we can’t quite relax since its still endemic with community spread. So it seems like we won’t have many more social distanced play date or dinner party options as no one will want to be bothered.

As for school, we have no interest in the hybrid nonsense. Either school is safe or it isn’t, it depends on local case load.

+1

[Anonymous]

I really don't see what the education level has to do with this...my most paranoid friend is from my hometown and she has a GED.

[Anonymous]

I’m fine with 1-4 on your list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don't see what the education level has to do with this...my most paranoid friend is from my hometown and she has a GED.

OP here. I put in education and location because it provides some context for where I'm coming from.

Thanks everyone for the replies. Interesting to see where people stand on this. We wonder if we're being over paranoid with no other kid contact - which is probably the part that is driving us all the battiest. Is everyone trying to keep masks on their kids at these outdoor playdates or just giving up on that part as inevitably challenging?

[Anonymous]

Aside from walking the dog, we don't really leave our property.

-DH picks up and drops off the nanny twice a day.
-Once every two weeks one of us goes to a grocery store for things we haven't been able to order for whatever reason.
- Once a week DH goes to his (empty) office to get mail and bring home a couple of reams of printer paper

The kids only leave the front/back yard to come with an adult to walk the dog. They wear a mask when they do that. They are not allowed to have playdates.