DC rules for daycare openings

[Anonymous]

https://osse.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/osse/page_content/attachments/COVID-19%20-%20Child%20Care%20Health%20Guidance.pdf

My daycare has said that when they open, possibly June 1, kids over two will be required to wear masks, temps will be checked every morning and parents/caregivers must drop off outside and a staff member will wake them in.

I realize these are things to keep everyone safe but it’s really making me consider a nanny or nanny share even though my kids miss their friends so much.

How is everyone else feeling?

[Anonymous]

Strongly considering switching to a nanny.

[Anonymous]

That’s better than not opening?! I’m losing my sanity trying to work full time and take care of kids.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, we are done with daycare. We hired a nanny to start week after next and feel so relieved. Obviously it’s an expense but so worth it to us right now.

[Anonymous]

My kids don’t realize how serious this is, and I worry about the impact of them having to wear a mask every day.

I would send them if masks were not used.

[Anonymous]

I'm not against masks in theory but I don't see how a 2, 3, or even 4 year old is going to keep a mask on consistently. They'll be fidgeting, playing with it, getting it dirty, putting it back on. The masks won't actually be effective unless the kids happen to be wearing them right when they sneeze.

Seems to make more sense for the adults to wear them but not the kids.

Taking temps daily seems ok though. Probably not a bad idea even without coronvirus.

[Anonymous]

So if a kid has a fever of 100.4 or higher they need to be home for at least 7 days? Is that right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, we are done with daycare. We hired a nanny to start week after next and feel so relieved. Obviously it’s an expense but so worth it to us right now.

Live in or someone that will be coming to your house each day? The former would feel safer to me, the latter not safer enough to deal with the hassle of being an employer again. (I have done nanny and daycare. The latter is so much more reliable and stable, even though I thought the former would be more convenient.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if a kid has a fever of 100.4 or higher they need to be home for at least 7 days? Is that right?

It also says children can be excluded for any “visible sign of illness,” so that could include cough, runny nose, etc.
So that pretty much excludes all preschoolers every day. When are their noses not running?

[Anonymous]

I am amused that you think a nanny will be “safe”. You think she will have no contact with humanity when she’s not at your place? Good luck with that. She will bring the disease right into your house.

[Anonymous]

My daycare never closed in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am amused that you think a nanny will be “safe”. You think she will have no contact with humanity when she’s not at your place? Good luck with that. She will bring the disease right into your house.

Still better than MULTIPLE workers

[Anonymous]

It’s not that the nanny will be perfectly safe. It’s that I don’t have a bottomless amount of leave to stay home for a week every time my toddler or baby have a fever (which hopefully they will get less often at home anyway).

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't a nanny still take kids out and about? Or maybe not if everything is still closed.

I wonder OP if we have the same daycare.

[Anonymous]

How long term are these guidelines? This seems to address immediate concerns for daycares that are open or reopening, br I’m not clear on how long term the guidelines are.

There’s zero chance my two year old will keep on a mask. We’re having another baby this summer and are pulling the older one from his daycare and getting a nanny for the pair.