Anonymous
05/31/2021 23:33
Subject: Cicadas and playing outside
Smithsonian is opening. If you're a stay at home mom, reserve off peak hours tix and take your little one indoors. Also look into wide open spaces, like school tracks. At 15 mo they don't need to be specifically in a kids playground. Any open area will do.
Anonymous
05/31/2021 14:52
Subject: Cicadas and playing outside
CBT for yourself, and you should do it for your kid too
jsmith123
05/31/2021 14:50
Subject: Re:Cicadas and playing outside
OP I just want to say I sympathize. I have an irrational phobia too (not of bugs -- of something else), and it's very difficult for people to understand what that feels like if they've never experienced it before.
Have you tried the GDS playground? It's pretty new and very close to you so probably worth checking out.
Hang in there!
Have you tried the GDS playground? It's pretty new and very close to you so probably worth checking out.
Hang in there!
Anonymous
05/30/2021 14:56
Subject: Cicadas and playing outside
Anonymous wrote:Then get someone else to take your kid outside - DH, babysitter? You're going to quarantine yourself and your poor kid??
Are you seeking therapy or on meds for this debilitating anxiety?
Not OP but there’s absolutely no reason to seek therapy or meds for something that happens once every 17 years. Unless OP wants to of course. That anxiety can be managed by not going outside or sending kid with someone else. That’s what I do.
Anonymous
05/30/2021 13:16
Subject: Cicadas and playing outside
We are in Dupont, there are hardly any.
Anonymous
05/30/2021 08:18
Subject: Re:Cicadas and playing outside
Anonymous wrote:As a resident of the SW Waterfront neighborhood, I can confirm that for whatever reason, we don't seem to have as many here. So I second the Yards Park recommendation--the pool/fountains just opened anyway, so once we get through this rainy weekend, you should definitely check it out in any case.
This is not in SW and, full disclosure, I haven't been in the past two months, but you might try the playground at RFK. It's relatively new and there aren't many big trees around, so I bet it's pretty clear of cicadas.
There are some blocks (extremely tree covered) in SW Waterfront that are covered in bugs. Completely covered, go two blocks over, no bugs. It’s really weird. The playground at Amidon and Randall Park have been fine. But blocks around Amidon have been horrible so it will depend on we’re you find parking.
Anonymous
05/29/2021 21:59
Subject: Cicadas and playing outside
Then get someone else to take your kid outside - DH, babysitter? You're going to quarantine yourself and your poor kid??
Are you seeking therapy or on meds for this debilitating anxiety?
Are you seeking therapy or on meds for this debilitating anxiety?