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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is also a Type I diabetic herself, so high risk for COVID. I talked to her last week and she said she is "terrified" at the prospect of dealing with an infant (she's due in 4 weeks) and a kindergartener who will be in MCPS and is an anxious kid to begin with.

How can I help her? Normally I'd bring over food to them, but she is understandably nervous about people coming over, given COVID.

Hoping the expectant and post-partum moms here can give me tips. [/quote]

Did she purposefully wait to have her second child until her first would be in school? Most people I know had an infant with a child who wasn't in full-time school. How old are your kids, OP? I don't know what MCPS is going to do for K DL, but you could offer to print out worksheets and keep her kid full of supplies - maybe if she email worksheets you put them in a binder or something for him to more easily manage? My kids were in K last year and their private did mostly online DL with some worksheets at night, and with my husband and I both working, finding and printing the worksheets for "homework" was something we only did sporadically. If the teachers would have just given us a week or more worth of them we could have done it on the weekend, but when they posted something at 3 pm that the kids were supposed to do that night, we didn't always get to it. Our nanny was home (with pay) because she's pregnant, but the one thing I would have loved for her to do was handle the logistics of their schooling - is that something you can do for your friend? Not in person, obviously, since it sounds like she doesn't want anyone in the house, but could you prepare and drop off his school work every week? And if MCPS sucks, would you be able to find some school work for him to do? In K it's pretty simple stuff. You could even offer to "grade" it and give feedback. I think most adults are competent enough to do that for a K kid.[/quote]

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