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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With all the college students returning home after campus closures, it seems like a natural fit to hire someone to help with the kids while parents telework/ go into the office. Obviously they’ll eventually have remote coursework to do, but I’d think they could at least provide part-time help.

Are there drawbacks I’m not thinking of? Of course, it would need to be someone you trusted to take good preventive measures outside your house as well. [/quote]

You sound really entitled to expect them to provide child care.  Its not their responsibility to care for your kids, its yours.  They still have a full course load and responsibilities to school.[/quote]

Many students are advertising their availability for babysitting on the neighborhood list serves.  No one is forcing anyone to accept the job.   Better to have the same neighbor college student or nanny coming over daily than to send the kids to a group child care setting.  For various reasons, many  parents don’t have the option to “refuse” to work, as someone suggested.[/quote]

It’s a public health issue!  We are socially distancing for the greater good and to get past this thing faster!

Christ, why are some of you so dim-witted!?  [/quote]

[b]Please watch your language and calm down.  You really need to relax.  Why don't you do everyone and yourself a favor and stay off these boards for a while.  It's obviously getting you super spun up.  I don't know if you think it's somehow helping to argue with people on here, but it's not.  It's divisive and not what we need at a time like this.[/[/b]quote]

To PP above in bold: DP and not the person to whom you're responding, but....

I agree that the "dim-witted" comment above wasn't useful, but I also wonder if you're the same person who posted on another thread that someone else should "relax" and calm down and try yoga etc. because you deemed them too spun up--?

It's very condescending to tell people to calm down, stay off the boards, "do yourself a favor" etc. If you want calm, cool discussion you should know that DCUM is not necessarily the place for that and that right now. There's an abundance of self-centered posters blithely looking for permission to do as they please: "Should I hire a college student" and "can I take my kids to the playground" and "can I let my teens go to the mall" (all real threads here) are coming from people who are going to make the situation in this region worse for all of us.

Sorry if that seems "spun up" to you, but some of us here are frustrated with the lack of understanding and abundance of ignorance we see here. And calling that out is necessary. [/quote]

PP, and yes I am.  There are people on these boards literally saying to others "how will your kids feel when you die" because those individuals are making choices they disagree with.  Look, I know DCUM tends to be full of grown-up mean girls.  I get it.  But there are people who are way more spun up than they need to be and they're only going to spin others up.  Panicking is not going to help anyone right now.  It's the worst way to deal with this.  We should be coming together as a community.  I did not mean to be condescending.  I think it would be a favor/gift to yourself if you are so worried to stay off of the internet and take a break from it for a while.  I stand by my comments.  They were far nicer than most of the other comments I've read on here.[/quote]

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