Anonymous
Post 04/16/2020 14:13     Subject: Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Nobody is going to want to go first. People are going to want to see if everybody else’s kids are getting sick before they send their own. It’ll be a process.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2020 12:45     Subject: Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

If daycare reopens in June, I'll probably send soon after. If it opens before that, I'll pay for our spot, but I'll most likely wait a couple of weeks to see how things go. I'll just continue to WFH or take leave if I'm not comfortable sending her right away.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2020 08:14     Subject: Re:Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I feel like this is more work's call than mine. I'd like to keep the infant, in particular, home as long as possible, but I cant expect infinite flexibility if federal buildings are open.


+1
If my building opens back up, how will it even be a choice to keep my 4 year old at home? I'm tied to the daycare/still paying, and won't be hiring a sitter or a nanny while still paying daycare. Unless my employer gets ridiculous and mandates return early, like on May 1.


Same. I try to keep in mind that most of us will be exposed eventually, if we haven’t already.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2020 07:29     Subject: Re:Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

I don’t know if I’ll be the first, but when they reopen they will expect us to pay to keep the spot and the spot took over a year on a waiting list to get in the first place. We don’t have other care lined up so I imagine we will start using it again when we have to be back at work.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2020 07:25     Subject: Re:Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I feel like this is more work's call than mine. I'd like to keep the infant, in particular, home as long as possible, but I cant expect infinite flexibility if federal buildings are open.


Curious, why keep infant at home if older children are in group settings? If an older kid gets it, your infsnt is exposed.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2020 17:20     Subject: Re:Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Not a chance.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2020 17:18     Subject: Re:Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I feel like this is more work's call than mine. I'd like to keep the infant, in particular, home as long as possible, but I cant expect infinite flexibility if federal buildings are open.


+1
If my building opens back up, how will it even be a choice to keep my 4 year old at home? I'm tied to the daycare/still paying, and won't be hiring a sitter or a nanny while still paying daycare. Unless my employer gets ridiculous and mandates return early, like on May 1.


In which case, I'd have to pay a sitter and the daycare.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2020 17:17     Subject: Re:Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately I feel like this is more work's call than mine. I'd like to keep the infant, in particular, home as long as possible, but I cant expect infinite flexibility if federal buildings are open.


+1
If my building opens back up, how will it even be a choice to keep my 4 year old at home? I'm tied to the daycare/still paying, and won't be hiring a sitter or a nanny while still paying daycare. Unless my employer gets ridiculous and mandates return early, like on May 1.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2020 13:57     Subject: Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Yes. I’d go now if they let me. If I don’t get childcare soon I’ll be adding to the ranks of the unemployed
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2020 12:33     Subject: Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Daycare won’t open until fall at earliest
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2020 11:29     Subject: Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Yup. If daycare is open and my office is open they will be there.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2020 10:50     Subject: Re:Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Unfortunately I feel like this is more work's call than mine. I'd like to keep the infant, in particular, home as long as possible, but I cant expect infinite flexibility if federal buildings are open.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2020 10:27     Subject: Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

It depends on when they open again. If they open before I feel is a good time to go back, I’ll see if they can work with us to reserve the spot somehow.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2020 09:50     Subject: Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

I think the demand for daycare will be way down after everyone has had to figure out how to go without for 2-3 months.
Anonymous
Post 04/11/2020 07:49     Subject: Will you be the first to send your kids back to daycare when it reopens?

Anonymous wrote:No, I will wait.


For what though? A vaccine?