How many parents still have children in lockdown?

[Alex50]

Just wondering if your children are still only staying at home and only going out for walks, if so why? Will you send them back to school? Are you worried your children could be severely ill from the virus?

If you think you are going to catch COVID in your own garden then you are clearly suffering from an inability to make any rational decisions. That needs to be dealt with

It's all the fault of that ridiculous Facebook meme which depicted the virus like radioactivity, floating around in the atmosphere. Plenty of people on MN think it's airborne and keep starting threads about studies "proving" it.

I belong to a few groups for people who were / are shielding. I am shocked that so many people still are not going out and obviously suffering with their mental health. I worry about the children in these families.

I blame the media for over hyping everything at the beginning, people stuck at home just listening to the deaths over and over, then there was the rare syndrome that could kill your children. 🙄 Now some people have taken everything literally and they have not been anywhere, they think if they step outside the front door they are going to die.

Back to normal (ish) I'm encouraging the older ones to go out and play with friends and I take the youngest to the park or for walks every day. We've been to a theme park and to trampoline parks been out for a few meals thanks to the eat out help out scheme. The younger 2 went back to school in June and all 3 will be back in September. The only thing I haven't done is the sleepovers , friends over and play dates but to be honest thats not because of covid more to with i dont enjoy having a house full of kids especially when they aren't my own, I'll keep that restriction going for as long as I can

I do worry about children who haven't been past the garden gate or seen another human since March unless there's some extreme vulnerability in the household surely that's causing more harm than good.

No, I have been very cautious about the virus as I'm in a vulnerable group, and I'm still avoiding shops/working from home as much as possible, but I am not stopping my dc from having a normal life as it wouldn't be fair.

Teenage dc is going out to meet friends quite a bit, and has been to some of their houses. I do remind her to social distance and encourage her to meet people outside wherever possible, as well as maintaining good hand hygiene etc. She went back to school for a few days in July and will be returning full time in September. I can't pretend I'm not worried about it all, but life must go on and I cannot ask her to live in fear because of my anxieties.

My friend is refusing to leave the house and then blocked me on Facebook as I’ve been going out to eat, to the shops etc.

Can’t save everybody 🤷🏻‍♀️ Her poor children though.

We sort of went back into lockdown a few days ago (after months of doing everything that was allowed) because I'm so scared of being 'caught' by track and trace and having to miss the start of term. I've been desperate to get back to proper teaching for so long and I'm not going to miss it for the sake of a pub lunch etc! Kids want to be able to go back on the 1st day too so they're not moaning at me (too much!)

My daughter (11) was in keyworker classes until the end of July and over the summer holidays she has been playing in the park daily with her friends.

She doesn't go to the shops, we've only been into town for school supplies and haven't gone out for dinner. Her life has changed so much that I'm not taking her friends away too.

No, mine went back to school before the summer and the school told us to try and get them some sort of holiday, recommending things where they could take some kind of risk / gain confidence, such as walking in mountains or sailing / watersports over the summer

So we have done that and had fun, they are looking forward to school next week.

Still isolating but we do have a vunerable DC as far as we have been is a few hospital admissions with DC
Children not going back to school, Partner WFH
Kids play out in the garden and they can play on our street when we are able to sit out with them as there is no one else around but it is on a busy road.
We will go out for more walks and stuff when the schools are back and everywhere is less busy because no one around our way is even following SD anymore so it hasnt felt safe for us

Kind of. We've met with family and friends. Been to playgrounds, had takeaway, and had a meal in beer garden. Also popped into shops.

However we've not been in a pub, not done non-essential shops or cinema, swimming, ice skating etc. We're trying to stick to outside.

The children are happy. We're meeting with friends 3 times this week. They've been wild swimming, bike rides, walks, den building in woods etc.

They are off back to school. DH has type 1 diabetes. We have agreed if cases rise in our area he'll move in with his parents. He works from home and they can all self isolate together. We can chat in the garden. His parents live ten minutes away. We're hoping we don't need to separate for covid, but would rather do this than keep kids off school or risk DH getting the virus.

The lockdown is not that bad in Manchester is it @Devlesko ?! I’m in Kirklees local lockdown & the only thing we can’t do is see family/friends in the garden or house. Parks are open. Ticketed country parks etc. You can travel to anywhere you like. The beach, the countryside, the zoo. Nurseries are open. Pubs, restaurants, cafes .. you can see anyone you like outdoors. Local lockdown hasn’t affected me at all. I’m annoyed I can’t see my mum in the garden but we still see each other all the time. She picked my DD up from nursery with me today & we went to the park 😊 Off to blackpool pleasure beach this weekend with some friends.. life goes on. I think the local lockdown is pointless. No pubs or restaurants are paying any attention to the single household rules. And no-ones policing it 🤷🏼‍♀️ Police are busy telling people off for gathering in gardens but pubs, people are spending money so who cares 🙄😤

I would be very worried if I knew someone who was still in lockdown with their children I would have a word with a professional in those circumstances.

They are issuing fines for kids birthday parties.
I kid you not.

Here, where have you bin?
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-break-up-childrens-birthday-18811284

@Alex50

I blame the media for over hyping everything at the beginning, people stuck at home just listening to the deaths over and over, then there was the rare syndrome that could kill your children. 🙄 Now some people have taken everything literally and they have not been anywhere, they think if they step outside the front door they are going to die.

There's no need for you to eye roll. There is a syndrome related to COVID in Children. It's called MIS-C or PIMD. Lots of studies on it.

I do agree though that if there are people not going into their gardens then that is over the top.

Hi OP- we are still in lockdown of sorts.
Our child has zero grasp of SD, so we have been in recent weeks on the odd park visit and to grandparents gardens. Other than that DC not left our home really and definitely no play dates.

Using our own gardens (communal) daily but at deliberately quiet times.

Aside from this is largely myself who nips out for any essentials it's been tough at times but mostly okay, DH wfh luckily- we haven't had any friends over or anything yet really

We are very torn on school return-lots at stake for us to consider aside from the obvious and Grandparents on one side would be very high risk, I'm not feeling confident at all. Think we will watch numbers closely- I've bought uniform but not the dreaded Clark's shoes yet

I honestly believe this decision should be for parents not the government in these circumstances- not every child responds the same way , I'm deeply worried whatever we choose

It's all the fault of that ridiculous Facebook meme which depicted the virus like radioactivity, floating around in the atmosphere. Plenty of people on MN think it's airborne and keep starting threads about studies "proving" it.

Cologne4711 - ridiculous This level of denial is astonishing. It's SO airborne that if an unmasked infected coughs in an enclosed room, you don't want to go in there for at least 4 hours. Maybe 6. Best leave it a day.

Also, the amount of assumptions about other people being made on this thread is saddening. You don't know what is going on in other people's lives. You don't know their fears and anxieties. Their children and not your children. Instead of sneering, try kindness.

I know two families where the children have not been able to go out apart from their daily allocated walk. One family has a child who is displaying some worrying behavioural problems. The other had a CAMHS referra

...Referral for an anxiety related reason already. I think both sets of children are due back to school but having seen how it took several goes for my children to adjust to something resembling normal, I am very worried for them.

@changeynamechangey yes there is a rare syndrome but it is so rare, it was blown out of proportion. The threads on here at the time were don’t let your children out you are risking their lives were ridiculous

Absolutely no way! For my mental health & theirs we’ve been seeing friends, grandparents, eating out etc. We feel so much better for it and overall I personally think the risk (in my area anyway) is quite low atm if you take precautions.
We all need some normality before winter arrives incase we’re restricted again.
Mental health is as important as physical health!
Feel for those kids still locked in the house. :( I would have lost my mind by now.

We are. I had covid, quite badly so we're all just out of isolation ten days now but staying put but we have been most of the time before it anyway, we live in the country and there's 4 of them. Torn between going back to school and homeschooling, I know most of the parents think everything about covid is ott (apparently me testing positive and having breathing difficulties has confused a lot of people) not thrilled to be sending kids in to an overcrowded room where we're probably in a minority of social distancing etc

@stayathomer how did you catch if you’ve been in lockdown all this time? Did you catch it 2 weeks ago?

Not normal here, but still probably more than most are doing. DS2 went back to school in June. Since it has been allowed we have had one family/friend in the house, including a sleepover. Lots of meals with grandparents. A holiday in Scotland. What's changed is that usually we spend a week or two with family in London over the summer, and we didn't go this time - I didn't fancy navigating public transport and museums with masks and SD so we didn't go. We've done fewer day trips around home too.

I really worry about my teens. DD (16) reached out to touch her friend's arm when she was crying the other day and they both snapped back when they realised physical contact shouldn't be happening. I told them both not to worry, but it's developed into a bit of a phobia for some of them. DS1 (14) has issues with anxiety anyway, but was doing so much better. Lockdown has been disastrous for him. He's locked himself away and retreated back into himself, and I just really hope when he goes back to school he can regain some of the progress he made and be happier again.