I keep reading about schools reopening and everyone has an opinion (I would prefer to keep the dc away from school for now), but no one is commenting about childcare settings.
all childcare was closed at the same time. Childminders and nurseries were included in the ‘education’ shut down. It would be impossible to socially distance toddlers, and really tricky to distance pre schoolers.
No one is commenting about childcare settings, but I wonder what people think about these settings reopening. Same as schools or a bit longer off due to the difficulty in keeping dc apart and the amount of germ spreading, sneezes, coughing, mouthing of toys that goes on.
I think parents of under 5s have probably generally had it worse through all this, little ones need supervising ALL the time, need entertaining through the day and it’s rare you can put the tv on for half an hour for a bit of peace. I imagine it’s near impossible for parents to have worked from home and been highly productive through that time. I get that parents need Childcare to be open for parents to go back to work, I just wondered what others thoughts are about settings reopening.
For the record, I’m a childminder, so could really do with reopening to be earning again, but I wouldn’t want anyone to be at risk just so I’m earning money again.