How do you think you'll manage the 'summer holidays'?

[Echobelly]

I'm presuming the kids won't have gone back to school, and that there won't be any summer camps or anywhere open to visit by end of July but there might be a bit more freedom to travel for outdoor exercise or maybe even to get together in small groups. But dreading 'the holidays' a bit.

I'm assuming there will be video tutoring courses (if people are smart they'll be working on them now) and I might just alternate between taking weeks off work and having the kids do something like that. If you're able to have people over to visit, might even spend money on a 1:1 tutor for son for some weeks - he is in the process of being assessed for ADHD, the thinking is it's likely he has it, so some extra help might not go amiss.

I think I'll still have my job by then, DH's contract is likely ending this week, more or less as planned.

I'm thinking/hoping they might have been back to school for a bit before the summer holidays.

I'm also thinking/hoping that the lockdown will have eased off a bit by then so that some summer schemes will be able to open, playgrounds and outdoor spaces will be open, meeting with friends/family is ok etc.

I suppose we'll just have to wait and see!

Yeah, it's all so up in the air. I can't imagine (talking of up in the air) there will be any foreign travel - when you look at the fact that most of China's new cases are imported, stopping discretionary travel is an obvious way to control things.

Some summer schemes the kids have been to have been small and almost entirely outdoors, so maybe they can do those. DD is at trickey age (she'll have just turned 12) when she's too old for the same summer schemes as her younger brother but not quite old enough to take hself off to places, but maybe if we can have visitors by then she can see friends and amuse herself.

I have no idea. I can't think that far ahead, because we have no idea what the world will be like by then. I am a keyworker, who is still going to work now, so I will be working. DH might be back at work by then or will still be working from home. I only have one week annual leave booked. I don't know if we will be able to send DC to grandparents by then or not (that would usually sort out a bit of childcare).

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If lockdown has eased up a bit and public spaces (parks for example - we live near several and can't really use any of them) then it will be more manageable than it currently is.

With courage, faith and chocolate fudge cake.

All of these sound like good plans!

I guess I'll reasses at 'half term'. It would be nice to think they might get another few weeks at school, but the main issue, as has been pointed out ad infinitum by now, is not the kids' vulnerability (because there isn't much) but the vulnerability of teachers and staff.

TSSDNCOP I love your answer. That might be my new response to everything.