Anonymous wrote:Just like you have parents who allow screen time and others post how they allow 30 minutes once per week, you have parents who need to do social distancing better than everyone else and discuss on forums like this. I'm not sure if it's an anxiety coping technique or what.....but it's certainly not limited to the current pandemic.

My boomer parents are at the grocery store multiple times per week....sometimes in more than one store in a day! So I don't particularly worry about letting my kid ride his bike outside with other neighborhood kids. He knows not to play tag or basketball though and comes home if it shifts in that direction.

We're all doing the best we can. Some posters here just need to make it clear how their best is better than everyone else.

Really disturbing article in the NY Times today about the effect of no-outside time on Spain's children, if anyone is interested. I'm all for taking this public health crisis seriously, but it was never realistic to achieve 100% perfect social distancing. Overall, we've done pretty well. But some states are opening up and it's getting a little riot-y in a few places. What we're doing isn't sustainable.

Anonymous wrote:The data is very reassuring, OP. I would let them play.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1

Anonymous wrote:I’m annoyed by the parents allowing play dates but what pisses me off the most is that they are posting sob stories about social distancing on social media. They are liars/hypocrites and that is what gets me. Own your shit. If you aren’t social distancing and I see your kids playing together in close proximity, don’t post about your poor lonely kids isolating. I have learned a lot about the parents of my kids’ friends. Our kids will be friends and that is where it ends. I don’t trust their judgment anymore and will no longer socialize with them. My children are struggling and we have a loved one clinging to life and the insensitivity is disgusting. I have no patience for weak minded fools who buckle with the slightest hint of diversity. Pull yourself together and develop a little discipline.

Anonymous wrote:I’m annoyed by the parents allowing play dates but what pisses me off the most is that they are posting sob stories about social distancing on social media. They are liars/hypocrites and that is what gets me. Own your shit. If you aren’t social distancing and I see your kids playing together in close proximity, don’t post about your poor lonely kids isolating. I have learned a lot about the parents of my kids’ friends. Our kids will be friends and that is where it ends. I don’t trust their judgment anymore and will no longer socialize with them. My children are struggling and we have a loved one clinging to life and the insensitivity is disgusting. I have no patience for weak minded fools who buckle with the slightest hint of diversity. Pull yourself together and develop a little discipline.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like I"m loosening up a bit. after dinner we let the kids ride around on bikes and almost half the neighborhood is out- kids on bikes and scooters but within 6 feet of each other. it lasts for like 30-40 minutes and isnt scheduled. we make the kids go inside and shower afterwards and get ready for bed. we've been home for a month and while DH has gone to the grocery store once a week and we've done curbside take out a few times, no one is going into the office, adults staying far away, no indoor play dates, etc. I'm sure people will flame me but i honestly think we are doing a really good job considering all factors.

This is our experience as well. We live in a town home community, and the kids ride bikes together outside several times a day. They are staying maybe four to five feet from each other, adults are definitely giving each other space. My kids spend the entire day, I go only to the store once a week, same with my husband. When I run it’s literally just around the block, wth me wearing a mask. We are doing the best we can.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like I"m loosening up a bit. after dinner we let the kids ride around on bikes and almost half the neighborhood is out- kids on bikes and scooters but within 6 feet of each other. it lasts for like 30-40 minutes and isnt scheduled. we make the kids go inside and shower afterwards and get ready for bed. we've been home for a month and while DH has gone to the grocery store once a week and we've done curbside take out a few times, no one is going into the office, adults staying far away, no indoor play dates, etc. I'm sure people will flame me but i honestly think we are doing a really good job considering all factors.

Anonymous wrote:I’m annoyed by the parents allowing play dates but what pisses me off the most is that they are posting sob stories about social distancing on social media. They are liars/hypocrites and that is what gets me. Own your shit. If you aren’t social distancing and I see your kids playing together in close proximity, don’t post about your poor lonely kids isolating. I have learned a lot about the parents of my kids’ friends. Our kids will be friends and that is where it ends. I don’t trust their judgment anymore and will no longer socialize with them. My children are struggling and we have a loved one clinging to life and the insensitivity is disgusting. I have no patience for weak minded fools who buckle with the slightest hint of diversity. Pull yourself together and develop a little discipline.

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Anonymous wrote:I think letting neighborhood kids play together is pretty low risk, assuming none of the parents are going to work.

Is there a risk? Yes. But it's not very high.

FWIW we're completely locked down in our house and not allowing any sort of play dates, indoors or outdoors, but I am not judging the families that interact a little bit.

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I am also letting my single child play outside. We live in a TH community where there are 4 other families with kids. Both my H and I work from home and I have been to the grocery store 2 times since the lockdown. No other outside excursions. All the other parents work from home too and are only venturing outside for grocery shopping. I thought this did not pose much of a risk, but now I am honestly wondering if it is a bad call. Other people were able to do so, but I was not able to keep my son at home while the other kids played and he felt sad and alone...

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If you’re going to be judgey about everyone’s degree of social distancing, then you need to do a lot better. No takeouts, no walks, and your husband needs to work in a hazmat suit. Otherwise stfu about other people going to the store once a week instead of once every other week.

We're supposed to take walks.

No one is supposed to be taking walks. It is allowed, just like going to the grocery stores whenever you want is allowed. You just want to take a walk for your own selfish needs but it’s absolutely unnecessary.

YOU ARE NUTS. Who says we can't take walks? Its people like you who are fueling all this ridiculousness about opening back up too soon. They are crazy too, but they are reacting to people like you who are just as nuts - just on the opposite end.