Daycare mandating masks for 2+

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Little kids are SO germy, and this is flu season. They're trying to prevent kids from spreading sickness and getting sick. That's great, and exactly what I'd want my daycare to do.

I agree- please tell me the name so I can sign up my kid! My 2 year old is great about wearing a mask and she has a bigger vocabulary than most adults so quiet down with your concerns about speech therapy-- her speech was well developed before 2

Why does your toddler wear a mask??

[Anonymous]

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There’s exactly ZERO medical evidence for forcing toddlers to mask up. ZERO.

In fact it can be harmful, due to insufficient oxygen.

That's total bs. It's 2024 catch up on your covid reading. Masks do NOT deprive oxygen! Liar.

Link please?

It's pretty obvious. Compare the volume of air that is between your face and the mask, and the volume of air that you breathe in. Most of the air you're breathing needs to come from outside the mask.

hahaha what are you talking about?! do you recognize that there are many professions that people wear masks for 8+ hours straight and their brain is just fine? for any of you who have not yet destroyed your brains, and want a mask that your 2 year old will wear and keeps them safe, highly recommend the happy masks:

https://www.happygear.com/collections/ultra

Get help

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I saw the title I thought someone had resurrected a 4 year old thread.

I wish i had been right.

Came here to say the exact same thing! I clicked thinking surely this was from 2021.

[Anonymous]

I would either complain about the policy or start looking for a new daycare or both. This is a bad policy that doesn't make sense.

The best way to prevent the spread of illness in a daycare is:

1) Have a strict policy about symptomatic kids staying home. This is tough on parents but if you can keep actively sick kids out if the population it will significantly reduce spread of illness


2) Teach and practice good hygiene-- regular supervised hand washing, reinforcing the idea not to put toys in mouths or put fingers in mouths, etc. You won't extinguish this behavior (the kids are 2) but with regular reinforcement you can diminish it.

3) Provide employees with adequate sick leave so they do not have to come in sick.

Masks just are not best practices here and don't really make sense. The kids won't wear them properly, you'll spend so much time trying to get them to pull them up or put in new masks. It creates a bunch of work for the school with no real benefits, so it takes time away from activities that DO have a benefit.

I am very in favor mask wearing when appropriate but it doesn't make sense here. I would email the school with this explanation and ask that they rethink the policy and adopt more effective means of preventing illness. This is purely performative.

If they won't budge id figure something else out with childcare. It's daunting but you'll find something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There’s exactly ZERO medical evidence for forcing toddlers to mask up. ZERO.

In fact it can be harmful, due to insufficient oxygen.

That's total bs. It's 2024 catch up on your covid reading. Masks do NOT deprive oxygen! Liar.

Link please?

It's pretty obvious. Compare the volume of air that is between your face and the mask, and the volume of air that you breathe in. Most of the air you're breathing needs to come from outside the mask.

hahaha what are you talking about?! do you recognize that there are many professions that people wear masks for 8+ hours straight and their brain is just fine? for any of you who have not yet destroyed your brains, and want a mask that your 2 year old will wear and keeps them safe, highly recommend the happy masks:

https://www.happygear.com/collections/ultra

And it all starts to make sense. This whole troll thread was just an elaborate set up for someone to try to schill a bunch of (virtually unsellable in 2024) wildly overpriced and useless toddler sized masks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Little kids are SO germy, and this is flu season. They're trying to prevent kids from spreading sickness and getting sick. That's great, and exactly what I'd want my daycare to do.

I agree- please tell me the name so I can sign up my kid! My 2 year old is great about wearing a mask and she has a bigger vocabulary than most adults so quiet down with your concerns about speech therapy-- her speech was well developed before 2

Why does your toddler wear a mask??

I'm training her to be an assassin that targets health care executives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Little kids are SO germy, and this is flu season. They're trying to prevent kids from spreading sickness and getting sick. That's great, and exactly what I'd want my daycare to do.

I agree- please tell me the name so I can sign up my kid! My 2 year old is great about wearing a mask and she has a bigger vocabulary than most adults so quiet down with your concerns about speech therapy-- her speech was well developed before 2

Why does your toddler wear a mask??

so she doesn't get sick or get us sick- i'm pregnant and immunocompromised, husband also has health issues. never quite understand the "kids won't wear masks" comments- she's been great about it for almost 6 months now... the parents who care about it and teach it it works, those of you who always thought they were useless chose masks that didn't fit and were uncomfortable to prove it doesn't work (as shared in many anecdotes above..)

most illnesses are spread through air, handwashing can only go so far. why is everyone posting about how important hand washing is without knowing that can't prevent most illnesses?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Little kids are SO germy, and this is flu season. They're trying to prevent kids from spreading sickness and getting sick. That's great, and exactly what I'd want my daycare to do.

I agree- please tell me the name so I can sign up my kid! My 2 year old is great about wearing a mask and she has a bigger vocabulary than most adults so quiet down with your concerns about speech therapy-- her speech was well developed before 2

Why does your toddler wear a mask??

so she doesn't get sick or get us sick- i'm pregnant and immunocompromised, husband also has health issues. never quite understand the "kids won't wear masks" comments- she's been great about it for almost 6 months now... the parents who care about it and teach it it works, those of you who always thought they were useless chose masks that didn't fit and were uncomfortable to prove it doesn't work (as shared in many anecdotes above..)

most illnesses are spread through air, handwashing can only go so far. why is everyone posting about how important hand washing is without knowing that can't prevent most illnesses?

Sounds like your 2 yo is your first and you have not realized what most parents by now would have recognized - every child is different. Yes, some kids can keep masks over their noses. Most 2 year olds cannot, and any daycare teacher will tell you that.

I'm glad your child's speech is developing well! The issue with masks is that for kids with speech delays, masks are a problem. Speech therapy does not work as well with masks. And there are tons of research articles on the importance of seeing people's faces for social emotional development. Since most people aren't wearing masks, that's not an issue for your kid. For my kid, it absolutely was. And you dismissing that very real experience that so many parents had makes you a total jerk and not someone worth listening to.

[Anonymous]

Wow - really. Even during covid, my 2 year old didn't wear a mask at daycare.

[Anonymous]

The masking wouldn’t bother me but the concern they would send them home at every sneeze would, find a new daycare.

[Anonymous]

I sent my 2 year old to preschool in 2021 and he had to wear a mask, but they were allowed to take them off outside and if they pulled them down while inside they weren't strict about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The masking wouldn’t bother me but the concern they would send them home at every sneeze would, find a new daycare.

If your kid is sick you should be responsible and keep them home. If not, they should be sent home.

[Anonymous]

I’d commend the daycare for trying to reduce the amount of illness among children and staff. The staff are the ones who will have to enforce this, they will put in far more work than you. I’m sure they didn’t come to this decision lightly.

[Anonymous]

RFK jr will be installed thu week put on those masks you stupid fool

[Anonymous]

I'd give it a while. They'll prob figure out it doesn't work and the rule will eventually disappear.

With a lot of things in life, you can wait it out until others realize the idea is a bad one.