Is it irresponsible to use daycare if it is open?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand how I could work with a 2-year-old by my side all day? Conference calls, training, emails, one on one calls with my boss. It’s simply not an option to keep
mine home.

Of course it's an option. What do you think everyone else working from home w/ kids is doing? You make it work.

yeah seriously, what do you think the rest of us are doing? I also have a 2 year old. I’m doing what I assume most people are doing- waking up super early to put in a couple hours before he wakes up at 7. Monitor emails and use some screen time in the morning for calls, work during nap, repeat in afternoon. Work after he goes to sleep.

If you have a spouse or partner at home, you work in shifts.

It’s hard and it sucks. But it’s totally doable and people claiming otherwise are just making excuses. Do your part and pull your kid out of daycare. We are all in this together and the longer people like you fight doing what’s right and necessary the longer the rest of us will be in this awful situation (awful for reasons far worse than the work stress!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand how I could work with a 2-year-old by my side all day? Conference calls, training, emails, one on one calls with my boss. It’s simply not an option to keep
mine home.

Of course it's an option. What do you think everyone else working from home w/ kids is doing? You make it work.

yeah seriously, what do you think the rest of us are doing? I also have a 2 year old. I’m doing what I assume most people are doing- waking up super early to put in a couple hours before he wakes up at 7. Monitor emails and use some screen time in the morning for calls, work during nap, repeat in afternoon. Work after he goes to sleep.

If you have a spouse or partner at home, you work in shifts.

It’s hard and it sucks. But it’s totally doable and people claiming otherwise are just making excuses. Do your part and pull your kid out of daycare. We are all in this together and the longer people like you fight doing what’s right and necessary the longer the rest of us will be in this awful situation (awful for reasons far worse than the work stress!)

This is assuming you have flexible work hours. Fortunately for me, majority of my team is all in the same boat. Attempting to work from home while entertaining young kids, so it's understood that I'll be muted through all conference calls, and that I'll mostly be active on Skype in the early hours and later in the evening, and that I'll finish whatever's left over the weekend. I imagine that arrangement doesn't work with every employer.

[Anonymous]

Some of us can’t telework and have to go in.

Luckily there are barely any kids in her preschool right now.

[Anonymous]

I would keep your child home with you. You are a federal employee, you have WAY more job security than the rest of us. The odds of you losing your job if you aren't 100 percent productive right now are pretty much non-existent.

[Anonymous]

My son's daycare is closed, and they sent an email out that a parent of a child has tested positive for Coronavirus. So that's lovely. So yes, there are risks in continuing to send your children. Anyone can have it, and pass it on very easily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand how I could work with a 2-year-old by my side all day? Conference calls, training, emails, one on one calls with my boss. It’s simply not an option to keep
mine home.

Of course it's an option. What do you think everyone else working from home w/ kids is doing? You make it work.

yeah seriously, what do you think the rest of us are doing? I also have a 2 year old. I’m doing what I assume most people are doing- waking up super early to put in a couple hours before he wakes up at 7. Monitor emails and use some screen time in the morning for calls, work during nap, repeat in afternoon. Work after he goes to sleep.

If you have a spouse or partner at home, you work in shifts.

It’s hard and it sucks. But it’s totally doable and people claiming otherwise are just making excuses. Do your part and pull your kid out of daycare. We are all in this together and the longer people like you fight doing what’s right and necessary the longer the rest of us will be in this awful situation (awful for reasons far worse than the work stress!)

Seriously. Work in the early morning or late night; put yourself out there and advocate to your company leadership that they have a moral responsibility to be allowing things like that right now.

Accept that your colleagues may hear your kid occasionally. Accept that screentime may be involved way more than you want. Frozen 2 is on Disney+ now.

Do not put every human around you at greater risk for your convenience or "mental health" - it's selfish AF. Daycare is a high risk activity for community spread, full stop. Don't do it if you have any way not to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand how I could work with a 2-year-old by my side all day? Conference calls, training, emails, one on one calls with my boss. It’s simply not an option to keep
mine home.

Of course it's an option. What do you think everyone else working from home w/ kids is doing? You make it work.

yeah seriously, what do you think the rest of us are doing? I also have a 2 year old. I’m doing what I assume most people are doing- waking up super early to put in a couple hours before he wakes up at 7. Monitor emails and use some screen time in the morning for calls, work during nap, repeat in afternoon. Work after he goes to sleep.

If you have a spouse or partner at home, you work in shifts.

It’s hard and it sucks. But it’s totally doable and people claiming otherwise are just making excuses. Do your part and pull your kid out of daycare. We are all in this together and the longer people like you fight doing what’s right and necessary the longer the rest of us will be in this awful situation (awful for reasons far worse than the work stress!)

This is assuming you have flexible work hours. Fortunately for me, majority of my team is all in the same boat. Attempting to work from home while entertaining young kids, so it's understood that I'll be muted through all conference calls, and that I'll mostly be active on Skype in the early hours and later in the evening, and that I'll finish whatever's left over the weekend. I imagine that arrangement doesn't work with every employer.

Yup. We are expected to adhere to our normal hours or take leave. So I took leave this week and when DH is home next week (he's on a shift schedule) I'll work. It sucks. But irresponsible to use daycare right now.