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[ilovewalks]

Next door neighbour had visitors yesterday who stayed over. Before anyone asks I wasn't nosing out my window all day but could here children running up and down the stairs etc very later last night and then again this morning.
This afternoon children all playing out in the street.
I've stopped ours playing out and they have not had a friend in for months.
They both got upset today listening to the fun from next door and outside and the eldest is in a mood with me because I'm mean.
Also the eldest is in a couple of whatsapp groups and tell me others are all having friends round.

You are indeed mean. Why the hell have you stopped your children playing out?

Playing outside or seeing children that you share a classroom with is minimal additional risk.

What? Why can't your children play in the street? That is mean. And when rule of 6. Surely they could have had a school friend round being as with them anyway.
The rules are crap enough withiut making them harder for the kids.

I really can't see an issue with them being outside with kids they're in a bubble at school with.

But we aren't supposed to have anyone else in our homes! Those of us who aren't seeing elderly relatives would be pretty pissed off if everyone else is mixing normally.

And the children playing out aren't children bubbled with OP's children. They are the neighbours' children and visitors' children.

Children have to socially distance outside of school and the current lockdown doesn’t allow for groups to meet outdoors so the OP is following the rules.

Everythings just normal where I live. No signs of any lockdown and absolutely no one I know is following any rules and no one they know is either. So yeah I reckon you're probably pretty mean for not even letting your kids play outside !

You can meet with another adult and their children outside, I think you are being mean- unless shielding?

We are not meant to be mixing I thought? (So did a couple of school mums who haven't let theirs play out at home)
They do not share a classroom with any of the "street" children. Also the children playing in the street with the "street" children are friends of their families so children from other areas.
Prior to current lockdown our area wasn't allowed to mix outside. They have both been to the park before this current local lock down with school friends.
Myself and the mums from school I talk to (they live in other streets) haven't been letting them play out on the streets they live on because of mixing with different school children.
Our borough is one of the highest in the UK and has been throughout the pandemic so I/we thought we were doing the right thing.
If a child from school lived nearby then I would allow them to play with that child because they would be with them all day.
I assume from a couple of replies that it is not just my area then and that children from different schools are playing outside with other children.

OverTheRainbow88 I thought it was meet with one person outside.
So I couldn't meet with youngest friend and their parent could I?

You are doing the right thing.

Can you arrange to meet school bubble outside? As a bit of a sweetener to get your DC through? Also, perhaps ask your D.C. is they'd really want to break the rules even if other people are. They may well be just letting steam off blaming you.

Sorry I was talking about pre Schoolers

So your DD could meet outside with one other friend and go for a walk together (if they are old enough to do that safely I guess)

@OverTheRainbow88

You can meet with another adult and their children outside, I think you are being mean- unless shielding?

No you can't @overtherainbow88

You can meet another adult outside for exercise, but a child can only join them if they are under school age.

You are doing the right thing OP neighbour are taking the Mickey. You should only be leaving your house to go to work, school, essential shopping, exercise, to attend medical appointments.
Children playing in the street, meeting indoors/having sleepovers or having people in your house unless they are trades people, carers or medical professionals isn’t allowed.

Think I will suggest meeting a school friend at the park next weekend to the eldest (Y6) and I can keep an eye on them whilst meeting a school friend of youngest with their parent.
I just don't know what I should be doing for the best anymore and hearing several children running up and down and around next doors house isn't helping.

There is a vanishingly small chance of children with no symptoms playing outside transferring virus between each other. No grannies will die from you letting the children play in the park.

Our neighbours on both sides have been living as normal through the whole thing. A lot of people seem to be doing the same - though I do know lots of people who are doing things properly, too.

It is frustrating to me - particularly as I feel pressure from family to break the rules when I just don't want to. But hopefully it will all be over soon.

Where are you? Why haven't they had a friend round for 'months'? Before this lockdown we were having playdates and following the rule of 6. There is no glory to be had in making up extra rules for yourself and your kids.

If you were in the highest tier before this lockdown then fair play.

@OpheliasCrayon

Everythings just normal where I live. No signs of any lockdown and absolutely no one I know is following any rules and no one they know is either. So yeah I reckon you're probably pretty mean for not even letting your kids play outside !

And there we have it .. EXACTLY why we will be in another lockdown or have thousands more unnecessary deaths/very sick people.

Are people really this stupid. ?

StrippedFridge, I'm not talking about not talking mine to the park to play at a distance.
upthewolves, I don't want to say which area I am from incase the neighbours or anyone are on here but there are a few areas that have been on/in the news a few times during the pandemic for there high cases and we are one of them. Our actual ward was low until October but wards within the borough 3, 4 miles away were very high.
We have had restrictions before the tiers came into place and I think outside meeting up was banned at some point as well but can't remember with all the changes. We were tier 3 and assume even though cases have fallen here we will still be in tier 3 with possible tougher restrictions so numbers don't go back up.

Asymptomatic transfer between primary aged children is not how the virus is being spread. You meeting the other parents to enable the playdate might if you don't take proper precautions.

Round here people go to the park, the adults keep their distance and the little kids run riot in the playground happy as anything. Well, some adults get close but obviously only if both are happy to stand closer than 2m without masks. If somebody wants to hang back nobody else would complain. If it is like that for you, you can keep your distance easily.

You are doing the right thing, OP. Some of the responses on here are really nasty.

Those who were having play dates were the children social distancing as that was part of the rule of 6

@OpheliasCrayon

Everythings just normal where I live. No signs of any lockdown and absolutely no one I know is following any rules and no one they know is either. So yeah I reckon you're probably pretty mean for not even letting your kids play outside !

Well, that's helpful - and probably part of the reason lockdown has been instituted in the first place.