Hybrid routines once home

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Anonymous wrote:What, you’re not supplying your kid with a hazmat suit and a hazmat shower when they get home?

Calm down. Wash their hands and change into house clothes when they get home. It’s funny to me. We have done this in our family forever. Haven’t changed a thing since COVID (except masks). I’m still laughing about people washing their groceries they brought home last year.

Whuh? You've been making your kids change into "house clothes" all along, and you're telling others so calm down? Okay then.

I’ve done it my whole life! School clothes and play clothes as a kid and work clothes house clothes as an adult. What’s wrong with that? Why am I getting so much hate?

I don’t know anyone else who does this.

We also take off our shoes at the door. Is that odd to you? I know plenty of people who do this. What if you were a nurse or some other profession where you wore scrubs at work, would you come home and hang around the house in your scrubs? Same for kids. They wear their school clothes and then change into comfortable clothes when they get home. Some kids even have school uniforms; do you really think they wouldn’t come home and change out of a uniform?

Plus the clothes ARE cleaner because they haven’t been worn outside the house. It’s partially about comfort and partially about hygiene, but mostly about habit. I’m so surprised that you don’t know anyone else that does this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What, you’re not supplying your kid with a hazmat suit and a hazmat shower when they get home?

Calm down. Wash their hands and change into house clothes when they get home. It’s funny to me. We have done this in our family forever. Haven’t changed a thing since COVID (except masks). I’m still laughing about people washing their groceries they brought home last year.

Whuh? You've been making your kids change into "house clothes" all along, and you're telling others so calm down? Okay then.

I’ve done it my whole life! School clothes and play clothes as a kid and work clothes house clothes as an adult. What’s wrong with that? Why am I getting so much hate?

I don’t know anyone else who does this.

I do this. When I get home from the office (we’ll, when I went into an office), I change into my “comfies” as soon as I get home. Just me though, not my kids.

Yes that makes sense, as does taking off shoes. But having "home clothes" for kids versus their school/play clothes is not as common in this area. Perhaps its regional/cultural.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What, you’re not supplying your kid with a hazmat suit and a hazmat shower when they get home?

Calm down. Wash their hands and change into house clothes when they get home. It’s funny to me. We have done this in our family forever. Haven’t changed a thing since COVID (except masks). I’m still laughing about people washing their groceries they brought home last year.

Whuh? You've been making your kids change into "house clothes" all along, and you're telling others so calm down? Okay then.

I’ve done it my whole life! School clothes and play clothes as a kid and work clothes house clothes as an adult. What’s wrong with that? Why am I getting so much hate?

I don’t know anyone else who does this.

We also take off our shoes at the door. Is that odd to you? I know plenty of people who do this. What if you were a nurse or some other profession where you wore scrubs at work, would you come home and hang around the house in your scrubs? Same for kids. They wear their school clothes and then change into comfortable clothes when they get home. Some kids even have school uniforms; do you really think they wouldn’t come home and change out of a uniform?

Plus the clothes ARE cleaner because they haven’t been worn outside the house. It’s partially about comfort and partially about hygiene, but mostly about habit. I’m so surprised that you don’t know anyone else that does this.

You are reaching. Changing out of uniforms whether child or adults obviously makes sense. What are your childrens wearing that are so uncomfortable at school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What, you’re not supplying your kid with a hazmat suit and a hazmat shower when they get home?

Calm down. Wash their hands and change into house clothes when they get home. It’s funny to me. We have done this in our family forever. Haven’t changed a thing since COVID (except masks). I’m still laughing about people washing their groceries they brought home last year.

Whuh? You've been making your kids change into "house clothes" all along, and you're telling others so calm down? Okay then.

I’ve done it my whole life! School clothes and play clothes as a kid and work clothes house clothes as an adult. What’s wrong with that? Why am I getting so much hate?

I don’t know anyone else who does this.

We also take off our shoes at the door. Is that odd to you? I know plenty of people who do this. What if you were a nurse or some other profession where you wore scrubs at work, would you come home and hang around the house in your scrubs? Same for kids. They wear their school clothes and then change into comfortable clothes when they get home. Some kids even have school uniforms; do you really think they wouldn’t come home and change out of a uniform?

Plus the clothes ARE cleaner because they haven’t been worn outside the house. It’s partially about comfort and partially about hygiene, but mostly about habit. I’m so surprised that you don’t know anyone else that does this.

You are reaching. Changing out of uniforms whether child or adults obviously makes sense. What are your childrens wearing that are so uncomfortable at school?

Sounds like you’re warming up to my idea! Try it, you might like it.

[Anonymous]

2 of my 3 kids are back 5 days a week. They come home fling their backpack and shoes wherever. That's it. No hand washing, wiping down of anything. One has been back since August, another since November. We probably should wash hands but we never seem to remember. Kids are 5th and 10th.

[Anonymous]

We have a child that is already doing in-person preschool. We used to bathe her every day immediately upon coming home, but we still got COVID, so now, she throws her mask in a hamper, takes off her shoes/coat/etc, washes her hands, and changes her clothes. We'll do the same for our ES aged child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 of my 3 kids are back 5 days a week. They come home fling their backpack and shoes wherever. That's it. No hand washing, wiping down of anything. One has been back since August, another since November. We probably should wash hands but we never seem to remember. Kids are 5th and 10th.

Eww. Even before they eat? We washed hands coming home from school even before Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 of my 3 kids are back 5 days a week. They come home fling their backpack and shoes wherever. That's it. No hand washing, wiping down of anything. One has been back since August, another since November. We probably should wash hands but we never seem to remember. Kids are 5th and 10th.

Eww. Even before they eat? We washed hands coming home from school even before Covid.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What, you’re not supplying your kid with a hazmat suit and a hazmat shower when they get home?

Calm down. Wash their hands and change into house clothes when they get home. It’s funny to me. We have done this in our family forever. Haven’t changed a thing since COVID (except masks). I’m still laughing about people washing their groceries they brought home last year.

Whuh? You've been making your kids change into "house clothes" all along, and you're telling others so calm down? Okay then.

I’ve done it my whole life! School clothes and play clothes as a kid and work clothes house clothes as an adult. What’s wrong with that? Why am I getting so much hate?

I don’t know anyone else who does this.

I've done it too. I was taught to do it because we weren't rich & couldn't afford messing up our "school clothes." I kept the habit into adulthood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids have been hybrid since September. They literally walk in the door, take themselves and their stuff up to their rooms, then hit the books. Not sure they even wash their hands. There hasn't been a single transmission of coronavirus in their school since September--so I am 100% sure that my DD is not bringing it hom with her in her hair. I can't believe the idiocy here.

It’s weird because parents have been very upset that their kids haven’t been in all this time because they fully believe it isn’t transmissible in school and won’t affect them and their kids yet now that they’re going in there’s all these elaborates plans for decontamination when they get home? Which is it??

This is not black-and-white. Many are sending their kids even though we know there is potential for transmission. Some of us have not been in pods, not doing other things in person so this will be one of the first things we are doing. We feel it is worth the risk. But we know it is not there is not zero risk. There is nothing wrong with finding best practices during a pandemic for goodness sakes.

With all due respect if you’re still washing groceries and worrying about kids bringing it home in their hair and clothes, in person isn’t going to be for you. Nothing your kids do when they get home except maybe wash their hands will mitigate the risk of them being exposed to an AIRBORNE respiratory virus.

It is really interesting to see what people are planning in order to cope with their anxiety about this. If there's enough of the virus on their hair and/or clothes, they were most certainly exposed to it through their respiratory passages and there's nothing more to be done to prevent what has already occurred. It's also not going to prevent the scenario of needing to quarantine because someone in the class caught Covid outside of school and came to school before they knew that (something parents sending kids to school should probably be more worried about than actual infection).

[Anonymous]

I have a child in preschool. He has separate shoes and outerwear for school. Everything comes off and stays in the garage and he goes immediately up for a bath when he gets home. Mask, clothes, sheets on Friday go straight into the wash.

I get that we're super cautious, but I'm shocked at the people who don't even change their children's clothes!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What, you’re not supplying your kid with a hazmat suit and a hazmat shower when they get home?

Calm down. Wash their hands and change into house clothes when they get home. It’s funny to me. We have done this in our family forever. Haven’t changed a thing since COVID (except masks). I’m still laughing about people washing their groceries they brought home last year.

Whuh? You've been making your kids change into "house clothes" all along, and you're telling others so calm down? Okay then.

I’ve done it my whole life! School clothes and play clothes as a kid and work clothes house clothes as an adult. What’s wrong with that? Why am I getting so much hate?

I don’t know anyone else who does this.

I've done it too. I was taught to do it because we weren't rich & couldn't afford messing up our "school clothes." I kept the habit into adulthood.

We always did this, too! Do y'all not change out of your work clothes when you come home from work???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 of my 3 kids are back 5 days a week. They come home fling their backpack and shoes wherever. That's it. No hand washing, wiping down of anything. One has been back since August, another since November. We probably should wash hands but we never seem to remember. Kids are 5th and 10th.

Eww. Even before they eat? We washed hands coming home from school even before Covid.

+1

Yeah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What, you’re not supplying your kid with a hazmat suit and a hazmat shower when they get home?

Calm down. Wash their hands and change into house clothes when they get home. It’s funny to me. We have done this in our family forever. Haven’t changed a thing since COVID (except masks). I’m still laughing about people washing their groceries they brought home last year.

Whuh? You've been making your kids change into "house clothes" all along, and you're telling others so calm down? Okay then.

I’ve done it my whole life! School clothes and play clothes as a kid and work clothes house clothes as an adult. What’s wrong with that? Why am I getting so much hate?

I don’t know anyone else who does this.

I do this. When I get home from the office (we’ll, when I went into an office), I change into my “comfies” as soon as I get home. Just me though, not my kids.

Yes that makes sense, as does taking off shoes. But having "home clothes" for kids versus their school/play clothes is not as common in this area. Perhaps its regional/cultural.

LOL. It was a lot more common before our kids wore leggings and athletic clothes all the time. School clothes weren't as comfortable when I was a kid and they were nicer, so we definitely changed into play clothes when we got home. My kids change on days when they've been outside playing because I don't want dirt all over the house. I think it will become more common now to keep out the germs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 of my 3 kids are back 5 days a week. They come home fling their backpack and shoes wherever. That's it. No hand washing, wiping down of anything. One has been back since August, another since November. We probably should wash hands but we never seem to remember. Kids are 5th and 10th.

Gross. We always wash our hands when we come into the house, even pre-Covid.