Are you taking your DCs outside (i.e. leaving your home) for exercise?

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Are you going out at all, for a cycle, walk or whatever? We still are. DD is 6 and we go either on the tag-a-long or occasionally the scooter, sometimes cycle then walk in the park for a short while, keeping well away from everyone else and touching nothing.

I'm getting nervous, though

Are you doing this? Or have you stopped going outside completely?

yes, I do. One of mine had severe learning diffs/autism and is living for the outdoors. We don't have a garden and is she getting very aggressive being indoors all day. It incredibly difficult. We usually take two 1.5 hour walks. It's far more than officially allowed but it not doable otherwise. I am totally on my knees with her in this situation as she doesn't understand it on a cognitive level.

we have nature close to home though and there are barely any other people out here.

Either DH and I go out for a walk with DS (21 months) every day. We only go where he can walk, which isn't far , but it's being able to talk about what we can see and slightly break up our day that I really value - yesterday I taught him the word blossom. We have a tiny garden but I'm as worried about the mental as the physical effects of being cooped up for all of us - no one would normally say it's good for child development for them to be stuck in the same four walls all day every day.

It’s very important that you get enough sun exposure for your vit D needs. Especially for young children who are susceptible to rickets and in times when there are nasty bugs going around (like now). Obviously not everyone has to go out to do that because they have a garden/get enough light inside the house but if you don’t then you need to go out.

Dh has taken 11 yo dd out, not every day. Dog walk / bike ride. We have a garden and trampoline.

We have a large garden but have been walking every day since this. We live close to woods and fields. We see lots of people when we wouldn’t usually but it’s easy to move aside and let them pass with probably more than 2m distance. We are washing hands and if I go to the supermarket I change clothes and shower after but other than that we don’t leave shoes outside they stay in the hallway.

The plan in the UK isn’t to stop people getting the virus, it’s to stop everyone getting it at the same time.

Absolutely. But we live in a quiet area

The mental health fall out of this will be horrific. Don’t not take your kids out just because you have a garden

Yes we do, once a day every day. We live in a 2 bed flat in London with no garden, our daily walk is our sanity and exercise for us all, we have DD(3) who definitely needs it!

Yes we are. Kids mental health is important. One of mine was just about to start autism assessment and I am very wary of how this is affecting them, and that, at the end of this, their future health will be much better if they are emotionally able to leave the house.

Everyone does. Round my way, it’s busy everywhere. People you never normally see are out. It’s like there isn’t a lockdown

This is the problem. People have taken it as an instruction to do something they never did before.

I appreciate we are particularly lucky. Our garden is very large and very secluded (we live in woodland). The DC have been playing cricket and rugby with DH and the dog every day

Yes. We’re lucky in that our housing estate is within easy walking distance from many tracks, nature reserves, country parks and footpaths. We’re exploring loads and finding it really easy to avoid going anywhere near anyone.

Yes. Walk or bike ride for the six year old daily as otherwise he struggles to sleep.
Where we are we can always cross the road when we see someone approaching so are never closer than the full width of a road (what’s that? 5m maybe?).

Of course everybody does. They’ve been told to. Normally we’d all be at work or school getting exercise. You need good lung function to get through any bug and good mental health to get through quarantine. We take our teens so we can be sure they stick to rules. Our garden is not big enough to be used for exercise and they wouldn’t do it. They do a walk a day as instructed.We’ll carry in until told not to by experts.

Yes most days my ds goes for a bike ride around the park. I'm lucky as I have a park just behind my house so I can see when the park has less people in it. We are also in the garden most days.

DS 15 goes on his own walk daily, I take DD8 out most days as otherwise she’d go beserk, OH sometimes takes DS10 for a walk but generally they’re both happy in the garden

Of course.
Going out for exercise is not limited to x1 per day.

Not every day as we have a garden. Sometimes we do need a bit of a longer walk though, which we do from the front door and spend the whole time crossing the roads to avoid people

Going out for exercise is not limited to x1 per day.

It is

Going out for exercise is not limited to x1 per day.

Yes it is.

It’s actually not if you look at the law

it will fuck (a lot) with my mental health if we get ordered to stay on property only for week on end

DS & I went for a 1 hour last night at 9pm. Bright moon so we wandered country paths except for a residential stretch at the end. We found a huge fat hedgehog in the road! DS had a volunteer role in wildlife shelter so knows how to handle hedgies - we moved hedgy to a garden.

A guy carrying can of beer was the only other person we saw on the streets, the drinker seemed scared that we stopped to pet a cat.

When we go out in day time I see more people than usual, but easy to say 2m+ way from each other. The roads are very quiet.

Yes, we are. I do have a garden, but the kids need to move more, so do I. We have a large park across the road and can social distance with no issues.

Yes, almost every day. Exercise is good for vit d levels, lung function and mental health.

I don't see any point in hiding away from this virus to the point of doing other harms to ourselves. The point of the current levels is to slow transmission rates so the nhs can cope. If a vaccine is 12-18 months away, most of us are going to get it at some point.

We don’t have a garden, but we do have a dog - so yes, we’re using that as an excuse for everybody to get their exercise.

Every day. 1 walk. About 3 miles in woods and fields. Kids are climbing trees and love it. I'm happy they are enjoying the fresh air and making some good memories out of this shit show tbh.

We had 2 weeks of isolation. Kids only had our small garden for fresh air. Broke my heart we don't have our own bigger space so we will continue walking outside while we can.

Yes every day (except one when it rained all day and DD suffering from bad period pain). During week it’s mainly round streets or across the park or edge of the common as has to be fitted round work calls and schoolwork, at weekends we walk further over common or to country park. See a few other people but cross road or walk in road to distance ourselves when necessary.

Mine are secondary school age so much less willing to play in garden though has been a bit of basketball or trampoline but they are OK with a walk (a bit of moaning about going but actually enjoy it once we are out). I think it’s vital for our mental health.