To ask how your DCs have been coping in quarantine?

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Just curious honestly. Think my DD1 quite likes it, she's been watching TV in her pyjamas all day (aside from school, of course).

DD2 on the other hand is getting impatient and keeps telling me misses her friends. I feel bad for her - I haven't got her a phone yet and she spent the majority of her time outside before this. Might order her some good books online, anyone know of anything good? She's 11.

DS has been a nightmare TBH, always following me around and talking at me. I do feel a bit sorry for him too though, this hasn't been easy on the kids.

Mine are doing ok.. two smallest are fine. Too young to know any different. My eldest (9) misses her friends and is getting a bit fed up with it but mostly coping ok. I'm worried for dd2 she's nearly 6 usually very outgoing and a socialite so this has been hard on her. She keeps asking questions that I don't have the answers to and she seems a bit withdrawn at times has told me multiple times that she "hates the stupid virus" she seems anxious about one of us getting it and dying! We don't talk about it much in front of her but she's a clever kid and picks up on Alot she knows things have changed.ive reassured her best I can and Alot of the time she seems happy but then she will go all quiet and introverted again. I do really worry about the effect this is all having on kids.

Mine are aged 6, 4 and 2. They are very happy at home with each other. They don't ask to go to the shops, park or school. I asked if they miss anyone and they said no. It's weird.
Also, we have cracked bedtimes, potty training, overnight bed wetting...
They are much calmer and happier.
I worry the 6 year old doesn't do much school work as he is so happy playing with his sisters.
And that they have no relationship with extended family as they don't miss them.
But I'm glad they are happy.

Two boys 3.5 and 5.5 are both happy as Larry and not really noticed a difference. Older one is delighted not to be at school and both pretty much just play outside in garden all day and we sit there with them. No issues here at all, I think we have been very lucky.

Mine are fine 🤞9, 8 and 2.

Littlest knows no different, is very much enjoying having big kids around all day. He loves nursery but doesn't seem to miss it.

Big kids miss their friends, and we have the odd moment of 'I'm bored, I haaaate lockdown' etc but they normally snap out of it. They're getting on better on the whole as they are on the same team, and not big sister/little brother, different year groups etc.

We haven't done a lot of school work, some of the basics each day. Lots of playing in the garden and just hanging out. Middle child had his birthday yesterday, said the only difference was not having a party and wasn't fussed by that.

We are very lucky though, we live quite rurally with lots of walks around, beaches a very short distance away (we have steered clear on the whole but been twice for exercise) and have a big garden with lots of scope for fun for the kids.

I'm a key worker doing one week in 3, and DH is still providing emergency response so has had days of no work, but then last week was out every day. So the only difference for the kids is not going to school really.

DS1 is 14 and he's happy, enjoys having a lie in and spending all day in his pyjamas.

DS2 is 10, he's more of an extrovert and is really missing seeing his friends, playing football etc.

DD is 12, she's somewhere in the middle. Basically fine but some tearful moments.

Dd7 is still going to school part of the week as me and Dh are both key workers. It’s not normal school but it’s still some interaction with other children. She does a couple of half days and a couple of full days then off Fridays. Each Friday she has had an almighty meltdown over the smallest things so I know she is struggling.

Dd3’s nursery shut altogether even for key workers and I didn’t feel comfortable trying to settle her in to our towns hub in a setting she doesn’t know with people she doesn’t know so she has stayed home with me and Dh trying (and failing) to work around her. Every now and again she asks about her nursery friends or the workers and I know she is missing them. She is such a sociable little thing so I worry how it’s affecting her only seeing the three of us. She is having more tantrums but as she has only recently turned 3 I’m not sure if they would have happened anyway!