Lock down - dogs are allowed exercise but not children?

[Strangerthanstrange]

So it sounds like in countries in lock down people are allowed out to exercise their dogs but children must remain inside? Surely fresh air and exercise is as important as food and water? Is this right? How can we expect elderly people to also manage with no access to fresh air or exercise for 4 months? Especially those who live in flats.

Singlemum32 I'd say no to walking in the woods - I mean, we'd all do it, wouldn't we? And that would defeat the purpose of isolation.

We're also in a flat, 5th floor, not even a balcony. 8 yo ok so far,

The council have just closed the little village playground and football field in our little village miles from anywhere. There are rarely more than perhaps 15 children through the playground in a day, rarely many at once unless they arrive together. There might be an outside chance of germs lingering on swings and climbing frame but Wtf is the point of closing a field?

@anothernotherone where is this?

Bavaria - sorry, should have said I did post this morning saying Im abroad, but obviously we mostly dont look at usernames as we read

I'm quite annoyed as the saving grace of living in the middle of nowhere, 5 miles from a shop or public transport stop, is usually the open space, and I have the kind of kids who need to run off energy!

I'm annoyed with the situation atm - the primary teacher is sending out work which is taking dc3 linger than the normal school day with very hectoring notes heavily emphasising parental responsibility not only to supervise but explain and mark the work, warning that after easter she will be checking that we've properly attended to this! Its quite difficult for me to explain the German gramnar and to mark the creative writing in German, and a lot of the set work has to be found in different places and printed out.

Meanwhile the oldwr children keep being knocked off the server where there work is and not being able to get back on, and I'm receiving incredibly long wordy emails left, right and center from the children's schools, the college I attend to study for professional qualifications (but only on Wednesdays and Thursdays) and my employer all making demands on my time.

I cant get college work done because I'm supervising dc3, but emails telling me my responsibilities and requiring information and confirmation I've read them are raining from all sides.

DH was also told today his company won't be allowing home working - even their branch in Spain aren't. So home is all on me. I don't know how or when I'll get my college work done and the constant emails are reminding me the deadlines stand and we should see school and college closures as a chance to prepare more intensely for our exams...

Argh.

I was quite looking forward to home schooling by going for walks in the woods and researching nature and reading lots of books with the kids, but instead its all supervising and marking very specific and dry core subject work which takes up more time than the normal school day, and closing sparsely used open spaces