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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the answers to how well you are coping really depend on your individual situation, not number of kids.  If you are a 2 working parent family where one or both parents work outside the home (essential), then that's much different from the extended at home summer that children of SAHMs are having right now.[/quote]
Yes, but the specifics of that situation matter too. Our usual summer (I SAH) involves a museum, library, new playground, splash park, and play date each week. Now, [b]we go for walks which are stressful because only half the people in our dense neighborhood wear masks and unless we are out the door by 7am (tough with my 4 year old) there are too many people at the nearby park[/b]. It looks NOTHING like our summers. However, I know how easy we have it because I’m also not struggling with deadlines. [/quote]

This is an aspect of your individual situation.  SAHMs in my neighborhood are doing hikes, bike rides, canoeing at the nearby lake, swimming, fishing, beach, picnics, travel.  Forming play "pods" with other SAHM families. My favorite are the ones who have multiple family-owned properties they can jet off to while their husbands work.  "We're at the lakehouse this week, next week we are heading to my parents' island beach house!" The point is that the biggest variable in coping with COVID isn't the number of kids.

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