If daycare opens July 1, would you be comfortable sending your 3 year old?

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Anonymous wrote:My child is going back to daycare the day I return to the office.

Mine is going back the day before I go back to the office. Lol. I need a day alone!

That said, I’m watching numbers. I’m hoping for July 1, but seeing what happens over next couple weeks now that folks in VA seem to be really letting up / possible reopening beginning.

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Where did the July 1 date come from?

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Anonymous wrote:No. Not before a vaccine. Which will be next year.

A vaccine will come next year if we are lucky. There is no guarantee of a vaccine that quickly, or even at all.

PP you replied to. I'm in the know.

Then you have bad information. Promising treatments often don’t work and sometimes a shot in the dark turns out to be effective. Until there’s a vaccine, we don’t know how long the research phase will last.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where did the July 1 date come from?

For me, it’s a date far enough in advance that we will have time to see #s go up or down. And it’s the first of the month. We have to decide on a monthly basis at our center when we return (they’re still open but we are only paying a monthly retainer).

[Anonymous]

Mine will go when physical school reopens, but I’m a teacher. I would definitively send my child over the summer if I needed to for work or mental health reasons. Statistically, young kids are unaffected by this and DH and I are super healthy with no risk factors. I might think differently if our situation was different.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. Are you sure you can't afford a nanny?

Now that you will have not paid for daycare for 3 months, if you spread that money out, wouldn't it cover the difference in cost?

Also, can you afford to get coronavirus?

Maybe this will change, but the few folks I know who are trying to find nannies now are having an awful hard time doing so.

Very strange. Maybe they aren’t trying very hard.

Not strange at all. People who were furloughed a laid off are getting unemployment. And some aren’t willing to put their or themselves and their families at higher risk of infection, particularly if they have underlying health conditions. -NP

[Anonymous]

For those of you with rising kindergartners, will you send your kid back to daycare if it's open in the summer?

I think if our center is open in early July, I would do it, but much beyond that and I'm worried that it's too much transitioning in too short of a time.

That said, I think the refresher on a school routine might be helpful before K starts.

My kid has ADHD and I just don't know if I'm hurting or helping him by keeping him home if the centers are reopened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you with rising kindergartners, will you send your kid back to daycare if it's open in the summer?

I think if our center is open in early July, I would do it, but much beyond that and I'm worried that it's too much transitioning in too short of a time.

That said, I think the refresher on a school routine might be helpful before K starts.

My kid has ADHD and I just don't know if I'm hurting or helping him by keeping him home if the centers are reopened.

I have a rising K and am struggling with this as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hell no we won’t go

Don’t worry, no one will make you! You are allowed to continue to keep your kids home, it’s not mandatory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you with rising kindergartners, will you send your kid back to daycare if it's open in the summer?

I think if our center is open in early July, I would do it, but much beyond that and I'm worried that it's too much transitioning in too short of a time.

That said, I think the refresher on a school routine might be helpful before K starts.

My kid has ADHD and I just don't know if I'm hurting or helping him by keeping him home if the centers are reopened.

I have a rising K and am struggling with this as well.

I also have a rising K. She will only go back to camp/school, if her preschool opens for summer camp, to decrease the number of transitions. If they close, she will not go to camp this summer. We have a nanny in mind to help with summer, but I need to make a decision by the end of this month.

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Hell no we won’t go

[Anonymous]

I have a 3 year old and a 6 year old. Since it looks like camps are closed, I may just keep my 3 year old home with us if day care opens, since we will be working from home with one child home anyway. I am happy to continue saving money if possible, given that there is so much economic instability right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 3 year old and a 6 year old. Since it looks like camps are closed, I may just keep my 3 year old home with us if day care opens, since we will be working from home with one child home anyway. I am happy to continue saving money if possible, given that there is so much economic instability right now.

Similar situation. And that way I’ll have enough money for a nanny if his daycare never reopens (possible, it’s a nonprofit and they are already broke).