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[quote=Anonymous]My 11 year old wasn't doing well with isolation this summer.

And my biggest challenge is that kid's friends aren't social distancing, which means that it's not very attractive for them to do a socially distanced thing with my kid when they can do anything they want with other kids.

So what I've done since school started was "lunch in the driveway."  He has an hour long lunchbreak and I drop him off in a different kid's driveway each day.   Outdoors, with chairs set up maybe 9 feet apart.  It's not great, but at least it gives human contact.

Of course, it's starting to get too cold for it.  One family said they might start up their fire pit to prolong the occassional lunches.  Or I may see if the other families want to do a shorter period (30 minutes kicking a ball, but not sitting still eating lunch).

The nice thing about lunches in the driveway has been that a) the other kid is happy to participate because their other option is sitting at home alone, and b) it can be a very controlled situation (it's easy to specify how far apart they should stay).  [/quote]

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