Social Distancing and my kids' sanity: what are you guys doing - honestly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are allowing the occasional water gun fight or bike ride with low risk families for our 6 year old. We would like to have real in person full contact play dates with 1 or 2 families soon. We would ask to see an accounting of all exposures for the previous 2 weeks and provide ours before we do that. We are in a cluster with the kids’ grandparents

Hard pass on that play date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are following the VA guidelines but that still lets us have Outdoor play dates, indoor play dates with one friend, little league, swim team lap swimming, soccer camp in two weeks, etc.

Same. We are following our state’s guidance - playgrounds are open as is other outdoor activities. They can meet up with individual friends outside. No big groups. Kids are 11 and 9

Look how that worked out on Texas and Florida. Be smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are being cautious. Kids are 8 and 11. It is tough since it's getting hotter, but they can hang out with friends outside, in the evening when it's cooler. Bike rides or socially distant picnics.

People can see other outside, social distanced, safely. Now when winter comes that will be a different story.

Thank goodness I live where the weather is decent year round. I hadn’t thought of that.

[Anonymous]

14 yo DD has been outside socializing with 3 other girls, once a week for about 2 hours, since the middle / end of May. All 4 families are being very cautious and were basically quarantining except for groceries when necessary (I couldn't get an online delivery from anyone to save my soul in Arlington until mid/late May.) No inside activities. Everyone continues to be healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I seriously feel bad for some of you. The level of anxiety disorder you must have to be borderline shut ins must be hard to live with.

All these kids I know hanging out and no one has corona yet. Lol

Why do you assume anxiety?
We prefer to be cautious.
There is sure to be another spike and we have no wish to contribute to it.
The vaccine will be distributed early next year. I’m a research scientist in a related field and am confident of this.
It’s all rather simple, really.

So your plan is to completely quarantine your family until there is a vaccine plus the time it takes to distribute the vaccine across the country?

I'm not that PP, I'm a new poster who works in the Covid ICU and stands there with patients while the die alone after they're taken off life support. I've been doing this for months, in a heavily hit area of the East Coast.

Yes, that's actually our plan, snarky PP. Like the scientist PP, I have no need to contribute to additional infections, and deaths, so that my teen can eat pizza in person with his buddies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are following the VA guidelines but that still lets us have Outdoor play dates, indoor play dates with one friend, little league, swim team lap swimming, soccer camp in two weeks, etc.

Same. We are following our state’s guidance - playgrounds are open as is other outdoor activities. They can meet up with individual friends outside. No big groups. Kids are 11 and 9

Look how that worked out on Texas and Florida. Be smart.

Do you really think kids playing outside in limited groups are major sources of infections in Texas and Florida?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are following the VA guidelines but that still lets us have Outdoor play dates, indoor play dates with one friend, little league, swim team lap swimming, soccer camp in two weeks, etc.

Same. We are following our state’s guidance - playgrounds are open as is other outdoor activities. They can meet up with individual friends outside. No big groups. Kids are 11 and 9

Look how that worked out on Texas and Florida. Be smart.

Do you really think kids playing outside in limited groups are major sources of infections in Texas and Florida?

I think that any gathering of people increases the spread of risk. I wouldn’t trust a group of kids under 12 or 13 to (1) socially distance or (2) wear a mask. They kids can be asymptotic and infect others. To what extent is unknown. They also can have unknown underlying conditions and become seriously ill. Why risk the health of the community as well as your family for play dates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are following the VA guidelines but that still lets us have Outdoor play dates, indoor play dates with one friend, little league, swim team lap swimming, soccer camp in two weeks, etc.

Same. We are following our state’s guidance - playgrounds are open as is other outdoor activities. They can meet up with individual friends outside. No big groups. Kids are 11 and 9

Look how that worked out on Texas and Florida. Be smart.

Yes, it's that playground-spread that's driving Texas and Florida's numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I seriously feel bad for some of you. The level of anxiety disorder you must have to be borderline shut ins must be hard to live with.

All these kids I know hanging out and no one has corona yet. Lol

Why do you assume anxiety?
We prefer to be cautious.
There is sure to be another spike and we have no wish to contribute to it.
The vaccine will be distributed early next year. I’m a research scientist in a related field and am confident of this.
It’s all rather simple, really.

So your plan is to completely quarantine your family until there is a vaccine plus the time it takes to distribute the vaccine across the country?

I'm not that PP, I'm a new poster who works in the Covid ICU and stands there with patients while the die alone after they're taken off life support. I've been doing this for months, in a heavily hit area of the East Coast.

Yes, that's actually our plan, snarky PP. Like the scientist PP, I have no need to contribute to additional infections, and deaths, so that my teen can eat pizza in person with his buddies.

Have you told your teen you've decide he'll have no life or education for the next 3 years? Or maybe ever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are following the VA guidelines but that still lets us have Outdoor play dates, indoor play dates with one friend, little league, swim team lap swimming, soccer camp in two weeks, etc.

Same. We are following our state’s guidance - playgrounds are open as is other outdoor activities. They can meet up with individual friends outside. No big groups. Kids are 11 and 9

Look how that worked out on Texas and Florida. Be smart.

Yes, it's that playground-spread that's driving Texas and Florida's numbers.

Exactly. It's sad how people have no damn common sense.

Texas and Florida numbers spiked because no one wore masks and everybody crowded into indoor spaces like churches and bars.

Not because kids were playing on playgrounds.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Talk to the kids about what compromises you would both want to make. However, if you're seeing all four grandparents frequently, that would give me pause.

[Anonymous]

Outdoor playdates with one or two families, max 2 hours, other mom and I distance outside. I read everything that comes out about covid and kid-to-kid asymptomatic transmission outside has not been reported yet. I tell my kids, stay away from the other moms.
So far it's been "safe" but if % positive is up who's to say we've actually been "safe" or just haven't been around it.

[Anonymous]

My 17 yo works about 16-18 hours/week and my 14 yo has swim practice 3 mornings/week plus occasionally meets up with two local friends (who are also on the swim team so she sees them there already) for afternoon lap swim and/or walks through the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are allowing the occasional water gun fight or bike ride with low risk families for our 6 year old. We would like to have real in person full contact play dates with 1 or 2 families soon. We would ask to see an accounting of all exposures for the previous 2 weeks and provide ours before we do that. We are in a cluster with the kids’ grandparents

Hard pass on that play date.

no offense taken! If a friend reacted that way, we are good to let that one go. Our asking the question has already revealed some shocking exposures unknown within their own family. “Oh yea we’re careful” doesnt mean the same things to people. A close in person play date is basically fluid bonding your families for an afternoon.

[Anonymous]

My five year old has not seen other kids beyond in passing or zoom since mid March. We haven’t seen any older family members. If numbers stay low she will do one month of daycare before school starts, but no play dates. I imagine we won’t be able to see family once she’s on school which is bummer.