How many kids do you have and rate your COVID experience

[Anonymous]

I think the missing question is whether you have help.

We are very lucky. After doing this on our own for a couple months, we now have childcare 7.5 hours a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the missing question is whether you have help.

We are very lucky. After doing this on our own for a couple months, we now have childcare 7.5 hours a day.

How many kids require personal 8 hour childcare?

[Anonymous]

2 F. I stay at home, which is why we are all still alive. DC1 is simply going through a hellish phase made worse by everything. This would have been a horrible summer no matter what.

[Anonymous]

2 between A and D, but mostly D since the 90-degree days started. We have a 3.5 year old and a newborn, and neither of us can give the other parent a true break since we can't take the newborn outside. Also we live in downtown DC but are carless. Bad time to be carless.

[Anonymous]

2 between A and D, but mostly D since the 90-degree days started. We have a VERY extroverted 3.5 year old and a newborn, and neither of us can give the other parent a true break since we can't take the newborn outside due to heat and covid. Also we live in downtown DC but are carless. Bad time to be carless.

[Anonymous]

2 between A and C

[Anonymous]

2C

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4B.

It was probably 4C or D for my husband. He is an extrovert.

Funny, I’m an introvert and really suffering because I am stuck with my two kids and spouse and all I want is to be alone. I constantly fantasize about this happening when I was in my 20s or even just before I had kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the answers to how well you are coping really depend on your individual situation, not number of kids. If you are a 2 working parent family where one or both parents work outside the home (essential), then that's much different from the extended at home summer that children of SAHMs are having right now.

Yes, but the specifics of that situation matter too. Our usual summer (I SAH) involves a museum, library, new playground, splash park, and play date each week. Now, we go for walks which are stressful because only half the people in our dense neighborhood wear masks and unless we are out the door by 7am (tough with my 4 year old) there are too many people at the nearby park. It looks NOTHING like our summers. However, I know how easy we have it because I’m also not struggling with deadlines.

[Anonymous]

1B. We’re a little bored, but doing well now that my 5 year old is doing a nanny share with her BFF. Before that she was getting seriously depressed and I was really worried about her. She’s already asking about going back to school in the fall and I’m sad she’ll have to miss that. Though very grateful it’s pre-K and not school school.

[Anonymous]

3c-f but can’t do e. Ours are 1,1 and 3. On weekends with no nanny it’s F. Demanding jobs, but lucky to wfh. I know we have it so much better than many and I recognize it but it’s incredibly difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the answers to how well you are coping really depend on your individual situation, not number of kids. If you are a 2 working parent family where one or both parents work outside the home (essential), then that's much different from the extended at home summer that children of SAHMs are having right now.

Yes, but the specifics of that situation matter too. Our usual summer (I SAH) involves a museum, library, new playground, splash park, and play date each week. Now, we go for walks which are stressful because only half the people in our dense neighborhood wear masks and unless we are out the door by 7am (tough with my 4 year old) there are too many people at the nearby park. It looks NOTHING like our summers. However, I know how easy we have it because I’m also not struggling with deadlines.

This is an aspect of your individual situation. SAHMs in my neighborhood are doing hikes, bike rides, canoeing at the nearby lake, swimming, fishing, beach, picnics, travel. Forming play "pods" with other SAHM families. My favorite are the ones who have multiple family-owned properties they can jet off to while their husbands work. "We're at the lakehouse this week, next week we are heading to my parents' island beach house!" The point is that the biggest variable in coping with COVID isn't the number of kids.

[Anonymous]

4 C

[Anonymous]

During the first two months 2/D
Since summer 2/B

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3c-f but can’t do e. Ours are 1,1 and 3. On weekends with no nanny it’s F. Demanding jobs, but lucky to wfh. I know we have it so much better than many and I recognize it but it’s incredibly difficult.

Hard ages for this when wfh. It will get better!