Anonymous wrote:rub her face down with hand sanitizer or she's resistant, as soon as she comes home, strip her and put her in a hot shower

This is a little extreme...just have her wash her hands/face when she gets home. Baths every other night. Stop worrying and start living.

Anonymous wrote:Stay at home moms don't need to send their 3 year olds to part time preschool for socialization during a pandemic. OP knows its ridiculous to do so, but really needs her own personal time back.

OP here. You must not have read my initial post. I am strongly leaning to not sending her back at all. I’m worried about my families health. She wants to go back and needs more socialization than she is getting right now. She has literally been in one store since the first week of March. We have taken this EXTREMELY seriously. It’s not that I “need my personal time back” because WTF does that even mean. I’ll spend the time she’s at school cleaning my house and doing laundry, but please. Carry on with your idea that SAHM’s just watch Bravo and get pedicures all day

OP I'm struggling with this as well. Does my 3 year old "need" socialization? Maybe not, but I'm personally at the point where I feel like keeping him home would be an overreaction to the current state of affairs. I know there are people who disagree with me on this, and I don't think we need to use this particular thread to hash it out...

Anyway OP, I feel like the science is indicating that Covid doesn't spread the way you're indicating, and that a hug and a kiss is fine. If there is a covid droplet on your child's face and you kiss it, would that do anything? From what I have read, it won't.

Stay at home moms don't need to send their 3 year olds to part time preschool for socialization during a pandemic. OP knows its ridiculous to do so, but really needs her own personal time back.

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Anonymous wrote:OP again. Thanks everyone. I think I just needed to hear other people say “I felt that way too” or at least I understand. It was a passing thought and not keeping me up at night. Just something that came up as DH and I talked about her return to school and surprised me because I had not realized I had been anxious about it.

You’re an idiot. If your child is exposed, you will be exposed because she is a part of your household and breathes. Your fear of hugging or kissing is ignorant, ridiculous, and irrational.

How is that helpful? OP is clearly stressed and was looking for some support. Sheesh

You’re not helping her by giving oxygen to her theory and telling her to change clothes. She’s flat out wrong and frankly if I had an idiotic concern like hers I’d feel reassured if someone told me it was a stupid concern.

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Anonymous wrote:OP again. Thanks everyone. I think I just needed to hear other people say “I felt that way too” or at least I understand. It was a passing thought and not keeping me up at night. Just something that came up as DH and I talked about her return to school and surprised me because I had not realized I had been anxious about it.

You’re an idiot. If your child is exposed, you will be exposed because she is a part of your household and breathes. Your fear of hugging or kissing is ignorant, ridiculous, and irrational.

You’re a bombastic asshole.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s just safer all around to keep her home. A three-year-old does not need “socialization”. You’re bringing on anxiety and risking her health for nothing.

The money I need to feed my family is “nothing”? Good to know.

OP said she doesn’t really need the childcare.

Anonymous wrote:It’s just safer all around to keep her home. A three-year-old does not need “socialization”. You’re bringing on anxiety and risking her health for nothing.

The money I need to feed my family is “nothing”? Good to know.

My kids are in school. I don’t think twice about hugging them.

You need therapy or drugs.

It’s just safer all around to keep her home. A three-year-old does not need “socialization”. You’re bringing on anxiety and risking her health for nothing.

OP, I hear you! It's a tough call. If there were easy answers, everyone would know exactly what to do. It's incredibly hard thinking that using childcare could be endangering our family's health in a serious way. I don't need the childcare more than I need my DH (or me) to not die of Covid.

Just sympathizing with you. I know it's hard. But try to realize you are making the best choice you can with the information you have. We can't control everything.

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Anonymous wrote:OP again. Thanks everyone. I think I just needed to hear other people say “I felt that way too” or at least I understand. It was a passing thought and not keeping me up at night. Just something that came up as DH and I talked about her return to school and surprised me because I had not realized I had been anxious about it.

You’re an idiot. If your child is exposed, you will be exposed because she is a part of your household and breathes. Your fear of hugging or kissing is ignorant, ridiculous, and irrational.

How is that helpful? OP is clearly stressed and was looking for some support. Sheesh

Anonymous wrote:OP again. Thanks everyone. I think I just needed to hear other people say “I felt that way too” or at least I understand. It was a passing thought and not keeping me up at night. Just something that came up as DH and I talked about her return to school and surprised me because I had not realized I had been anxious about it.

You’re an idiot. If your child is exposed, you will be exposed because she is a part of your household and breathes. Your fear of hugging or kissing is ignorant, ridiculous, and irrational.

OP again. Thanks everyone. I think I just needed to hear other people say “I felt that way too” or at least I understand. It was a passing thought and not keeping me up at night. Just something that came up as DH and I talked about her return to school and surprised me because I had not realized I had been anxious about it.

If you're that worried keep her home. Socialize her a different way. Let the daycare spot go to someone who needs it, maybe a teacher with a toddler at home interrupting DL.