Anyone thinking about waiting a few days before sending their kid back to preschool?

[Anonymous]

Covid is less dangerous for (non immune compromised) young children than flu or RSV, so, for me the question is usually "would I have made this same decision pre-covid"?

[Anonymous]

We're keeping our preschooler home this week, but only because we have a newborn.

[Anonymous]

We’re skipping before/after care (my kids are in elementary), so DH and I are walking them to and from school for at least a week. (We’re able to take turns working at home and making this happen.) I just want to see how things go before adding in the extra dynamic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid is less dangerous for (non immune compromised) young children than flu or RSV, so, for me the question is usually "would I have made this same decision pre-covid"?

Same thinking here. The one mile drive to preschool is more dangerous to my kid.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we are keeping my preschooler home all this week. Hearing this from a lot of other parents as well.

It’s preschool. He isn’t missing his AP chemistry review week. And we don’t use preschool as childcare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're keeping our preschooler home this week, but only because we have a newborn.

I also have a newborn (almost 8 weeks) and think I’ll keep my 3yo home as well. Wouldn’t otherwise. Just feel bad because my older one has already been home for two weeks.

[Anonymous]

I'm debating it. I just got an email about a 5th positive case in the center. None in my son's room, but they'd previously had just one case a year ago. Now 5 in less than a week and a half.and that's with the center half empty for Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we are keeping my preschooler home all this week. Hearing this from a lot of other parents as well.

It’s preschool. He isn’t missing his AP chemistry review week. And we don’t use preschool as childcare.

+1.

[Anonymous]

We were planning on keeping our kids home for a few days to see what happens in the schools. Planned on at least two days, and then day-to-day decisions. Then my little one got a 102 fever yesterday, so we're going nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're keeping our preschooler home this week, but only because we have a newborn.

I also have a newborn (almost 8 weeks) and think I’ll keep my 3yo home as well. Wouldn’t otherwise. Just feel bad because my older one has already been home for two weeks.

I also have a newborn (3 weeks) and was thinking of sending my 2yo just to give all of us a break after the incessant togetherness of the last week (Christmas has been very exhausting even though we didn’t go anywhere or see anyone) but she got a positive Covid test over the weekend so we’re all staying home after all. :-/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're keeping our preschooler home this week, but only because we have a newborn.

I also have a newborn (almost 8 weeks) and think I’ll keep my 3yo home as well. Wouldn’t otherwise. Just feel bad because my older one has already been home for two weeks.

I also have a newborn (3 weeks) and was thinking of sending my 2yo just to give all of us a break after the incessant togetherness of the last week (Christmas has been very exhausting even though we didn’t go anywhere or see anyone) but she got a positive Covid test over the weekend so we’re all staying home after all. :-/

Oh man. Keeping you in my thoughts that it’s mild and your newborn doesn’t catch it. Keep us posted

[Anonymous]

We were going to send our kids in, but Mother Nature felt otherwise, and daycare has been closed.

[Anonymous]

When DD was positive last year, and DS was negative, we had DD home for her full quarantine, and then DS started his quarantine. His last close contact day was the last day of her infectious period. So he was home for almost 4 weeks. The worst case scenario for me isn't getting the COVID sniffles - I've been through that and I trust the stats that it is mild. The worse case scenario is having the positive kid home for 2 weeks and the negative kid home for 4. Maybe with omicron everyone will truly be positive and that shortens the quarantine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were going to send our kids in, but Mother Nature felt otherwise, and daycare has been closed.

We were not planning to send in this week, and preschool got cancelled all week anyway! Thanks snow, we didn’t have to miss anything