Who is sending their younger ones to preschool or K and keeping older ones home?

[Anonymous]

My SIL is doing this. Of course she’d send the older one too if she could. She’s the type of SAHM who actually prefers to spend as little time as possible with her children, and doesn’t mind telling people that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is helping me feel better. I have anxiety sending our Ker to private and him bringing home all sorts of germs. I may bring him a change of clothes every day and give him a bath as soon as we get home. Is that crazy?

Prime example of hygiene theatre.

[Anonymous]

I have 3.5 y/o and a 15 month old. We are likely sending DD to a very small preschool with solid safety procedures 2 or 3 mornings per week this fall. DD needs socialization and mental stimulation. It is very hard to work with her because younger DD is a climber and into everything. Nap time is the only time I can work with her 1:1. If I had an older child doing DL, I would probably still send the 3 y/o.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is helping me feel better. I have anxiety sending our Ker to private and him bringing home all sorts of germs. I may bring him a change of clothes every day and give him a bath as soon as we get home. Is that crazy?

Yes, this sounds insane. You'll ask him to strip out of his clothes before he gets home? And then bath when he walks in the door?? It's understandable to have anxiety during all of this, but that's taking extreme measures and it will most certainly cause your child to have stress and anxiety himself. If you act like he's covered in germs from school, he could start developing weird ideas about germs being on everything at school. He may become afraid to go to school at all, or leave the house. If you're having that difficult of a time with it and can't control your anxiety over it, then keep him home instead.

Plenty of people leave the house each day and go to work. They don't change their clothes in the garage and run up to the shower (unless they're working in a hospital with COVID patients or something).

We changed into play clothes, brushed our teeth (I had braces k-8) and washed our hands and faces as soon as we got home. PP could easily swap for bath and play clothes.

[Anonymous]

We are, except ours are a little older. Enrolled rising 9th in OLS and rising 3rd is going in-person.

[Anonymous]

Our school board meets this week to finalize their plan which will likely be a hybrid of 2 days in class and 2 days virtual. At this point I’m 90% sure that my K and 1st grader will do a private teacher program with 3-4 other children. Virtual did not work with my 1st grader and my kids really need a routine and being in class with other children. I also have a toddler and an infant so I can’t monitor virtual learning. This will be very expensive but I hate the idea of them not advancing academically as I really saw it happening in the spring.

[Anonymous]

Almost sent my 2.5 to preschool but decided it could wait a year, since I stay at home and older siblings will be home doing DL. If her sisters were in school, then I would have sent her too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is helping me feel better. I have anxiety sending our Ker to private and him bringing home all sorts of germs. I may bring him a change of clothes every day and give him a bath as soon as we get home. Is that crazy?

Prime example of hygiene theatre.

Changing clothes and taking off shoes does help. The bath probably won't do as much assuming your son doesn't have long hair. Washing hands/face when you get home will help the most.
Just make it into a routine when you get home and the kids won't even associate it with germs honestly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is helping me feel better. I have anxiety sending our Ker to private and him bringing home all sorts of germs. I may bring him a change of clothes every day and give him a bath as soon as we get home. Is that crazy?

You need help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is helping me feel better. I have anxiety sending our Ker to private and him bringing home all sorts of germs. I may bring him a change of clothes every day and give him a bath as soon as we get home. Is that crazy?

My friend told me doctors and nurses don’t wear their shoes in the house. I hadn’t decided whether she would change her clothes when she gets home but I am going to have her have a pair of school shoes that don’t come in the house??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is helping me feel better. I have anxiety sending our Ker to private and him bringing home all sorts of germs. I may bring him a change of clothes every day and give him a bath as soon as we get home. Is that crazy?

My ped recommends this for anyone who’s spent significant time indoors in “public” daily.

[Anonymous]

I am so mad. Our private preschool just announced plans to be back open with masks Friday and we have until Wednesday to decide. So they got months to figure it out and I have 3 business days. Wtf#1.
We love our preschool and it’s so hard to get it. I don’t want to lose our spot. But I can’t imagine sending my 3 year old and watchful waiting to see if they get sick. Older child will be full DL at home. Wtf#2.
I’m considering paying just to hold our spot and sending her occasionally while they figure out it’s not safe. Is that crazy??