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[quote=Anonymous]I & DH have been working 8-5pm from home, and our 4 year old DD has been out of daycare since mid-March. Both of us have no time to take care of DD during work hours, and we feel really sorry for her. She wanders around, does some homework sheet(which we force her to), plays some toys.....so bored being at home, and also watches a lot of tv. We do realize that her reading level has gone down, forgets some letters, manners has been bad & undisciplined. Is it all due to lack of daycare? She used to attend full day daycare 5 days a week.

We are not considering nanny because we cannot imagine one more adult stuck in our small house all the time. But, we feel like that we have to do something about her academic, her unhappiness being at home & her watching too much tv daily. We are not ready to send her back to daycare, and I don't even know if her daycare has spot for her anymore because they are opening at 50% capacity & they have taken in other emergency personnel family. We have tried some virtual sessions, and it is a lot of effort for parents to supervise during the whole time. And, she is 50% not interested, and cannot sit still to focus. And, I hate more screentime because everything now is all virtual. We have bought many workbooks, and she does not want to do them. We have tried to incorporate daycare schedules, and we find out that it is totally impossible for working parents to do that. We are thinking to find a high school kid or college kid to keep him company for few hours every day in the furnished basement, but we are not sure where to find that person, and how social distancing that person is? What to do if both parents have inflexible telework hours with young kids? [/quote]

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