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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post is weird as hell. Your daughters are welcome to say no. For my part, I am facing down accepting the risk of letting a babysitter into our house, or my H or I quitting our jobs. Those are my choices. If you are not juggling two full time jobs and multiple small children, maybe you cannot fathom what this situation is like, but don't tell me I can or cannot make the choices I have to make. This whole situation is a lose-lose.

For my part, we found [b]a teen who is also socially distancing[/b], we talked to her openly about who we are and are not exposed to, she told us, we laid a few ground rules, and everyone feels comfortable. And my H and I have been able to keep our jobs. We are paying her more than her asking price (she said $15, we pay $20) because of the circumstances and because of our expectations around social distancing. It's been going on for a month, the mental health of our entire family has improved, she has made more in a month than she would in an entire summer at her normal job, and it worked out.

Like I said, your daughters can say no but to act like considering this is irresponsible is just ignorant on your part. Not to mention you OWN UP TO also accepting risk to do activities such as protesting. There is no binary "good / bad" decision making here, it's all just risk weighing.[/quote]

Right.  Tell yourself that fairy tale.  [/quote]

Quoted PP here and lol, fair. Although for what it's worth the teen watching my kids seems to be a total dork. I honestly think she really might be distancing. But your point is taken. I'm doing the best I can here ok? [/quote]

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