Am i breaking lockdown rules ?

[1ForAllnAllFor1]

Hi all,
I live in a flat with a 2 year old. We previously used to go out everyday to a playgroup where him and another girl got on and played every day. He asks about her every day.

I have been self isolating for almost a month now due to my DH having flu symptoms earlier in the month whixh he recovered from. My son, is absolutely bored at home.

This morning I decided to take him out on his scooter next to our block of flats, towards a Tesco (which I wasn’t going into). It’s a little forest walkway where there is runners and I was respecting all social distancing.


I happened to bump into his friend who he has been asking for everyday, he pointed her out and ran towards her. She was on her scooter too. So me and the mum kept 2 meters apart and we let them run the scooter alongside each other. They didn’t touch or anything.

Part of me felt irresponsible but I was overwhelmed with emotion as this was his normal and it broke my heart to end his happy moment as he has been so lonely and bored at home, but I wonder whether I wasn’t following guidelines?

A man saw us and was loudly swearing and cussing and saying how people like me are behind lockdown not being effective and stricter rules.

It has put me off taking my son out at all. But then I feel confused as this is part of the guidelines.

Am I unreasonable

[SoloMummy]

@PurpleDaisies
Please remember that underlying conditions do not have to mean a condition that extensively affected their daily life. It could have been well controlled asthma, for example, not necessarily something out of the ordinary. Rather something most households have a sufferer of.

[Whiskersandtwitch]

Don't worry about it OP. You kept 2 m apart and your DC scooted near each other but presumably not on top of each other. They were in the fresh air and hopefully didn't go within 2m. Plenty of people are still going to work and a trip to the supermarket is probably far more risky.

[saraclara]

Are all the posters piling on this poor woman aware that some children are still attending school and childcare? If riding a scooter near a friend is akin to feeding them arsenic, the govt wouldn't be keeping schools open for children of key workers and the vulnerable.