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Children social distancing

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Sapphiresundays · 21/09/2021 17:49

Are your children still social distancing?
My friend has asked for a playdate but still makes her 6 year old social distance. Just wondered if others are.

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GoodnightGrandma · 21/09/2021 17:49

No. They’re not wearing masks in school so no need.

LegArmpits · 21/09/2021 17:50

Lol

OliveTree75 · 21/09/2021 18:02

God no.

SummerHouse · 21/09/2021 18:03

What a shite play date.

Dghgcotcitc · 21/09/2021 18:04

No

Nettleskeins · 21/09/2021 18:05

Horrifying

TreaslakeandBack · 21/09/2021 18:06

No. He never has, kids can’t social distance! And if they can they shouldn’t. They should play.

thewhatsit · 21/09/2021 18:09

@TreaslakeandBack

No. He never has, kids can’t social distance! And if they can they shouldn’t. They should play.
This.

I can’t think I’ve ever seen children social distancing. How sad.

After the first lockdown when you could start meeting up with people again I always made certain that the people I was seeing wouldn’t be distancing from my DC of expecting my DC to distance from them otherwise we just didn’t see them.

HungryHippo11 · 21/09/2021 18:09

No. My daughter was 3 in lockdown, we never enforced social distancing. If people were insistent on it, we just didn't see them.

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Sapphiresundays · 21/09/2021 18:13

I thought it was ott too. My friend is still very anxious about covid. I want to help her but worried my child will hug her child and freak her out 🙈

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Silverswirl · 21/09/2021 18:14

What on Earth is going on with MN these days and mental covid posts?
No children do not social distance and never have!

Rosesareyellow · 21/09/2021 18:14

How do they play like that?? Confused your friend does realise they haven’t been social distancing at school for the last year?

Rosesareyellow · 21/09/2021 18:16

I can’t think I’ve ever seen children social distancing. How sad.

We had to try an ‘encourage’ it with our key worker children during the first lockdown when all this was still new - it didn’t really work needless to say.

Bobholll · 21/09/2021 18:17

No. They never have.

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Sapphiresundays · 21/09/2021 18:21

@Rosesareyellow

How do they play like that?? Confused your friend does realise they haven’t been social distancing at school for the last year?
They have gone on walks with family or played football but always have to be 2 metres. It's really sad. I don't think I could relax knowing I'd have to keep reminding my children.
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thewhatsit · 21/09/2021 18:24

Yeah I would just be staying clear for now.

Everyone has their own individual risk tolerance and that’s normal and fine. I’m sure others have good reasons to be worried about Covid for instance they might have CEV relatives in the house but I have tried very hard throughout all of this to shield my children from all of the scary Covid stuff. Same goes for me and social distancing really. I’ve distanced in public from strangers of course, but I’ve tended to only meet up with friends who have been fine to meet up without distancing / masks etc.

Profilejacket · 21/09/2021 18:25

We tried first time round but never with much success. Since they went back to school last June we’ve barely mentioned it

Silverswirl · 21/09/2021 18:45

@thewhatsit

Yeah I would just be staying clear for now.

Everyone has their own individual risk tolerance and that’s normal and fine. I’m sure others have good reasons to be worried about Covid for instance they might have CEV relatives in the house but I have tried very hard throughout all of this to shield my children from all of the scary Covid stuff. Same goes for me and social distancing really. I’ve distanced in public from strangers of course, but I’ve tended to only meet up with friends who have been fine to meet up without distancing / masks etc.

It’s neither normal or fine. In fact I would say it’s about as far from normal or fine as you can get.
Nettleskeins · 21/09/2021 19:00

I would be challenging her "risk assessment". Keeping her child "safe" could be harming her child's development.
I would challenge this in the same way as I would challenge a friend who thought it was dangerous to let her child on a climbing frame.

NothingIsWrong · 21/09/2021 19:15

No and mine never did. Awful thing to do to children.

RobinPenguins · 21/09/2021 19:15

No and I never inflicted that on mine.

IcedPurple · 21/09/2021 19:30

They have gone on walks with family or played football but always have to be 2 metres.

It's impossible to play football with 2 metres 'distancing', or indeed with any 'distancing' at all.

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Sapphiresundays · 21/09/2021 19:51

Yes not really 'playing' football just allowed to kick the ball to each other.

My friend is getting help but is still very much acting the same as we did at the beginning of the pandemic and is unable to accept all the new advice, guidelines as she feels its too risky. It's very sad.

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audweb · 21/09/2021 19:53

No. But then children under twelve stopped having to social distance a long time ago in Scotland. And even if it hadn’t I wouldn’t have let my child continue to social distance.

Invasionofthegutsnatchers · 21/09/2021 19:54

I teach in an infant school. Children this age are incapable of social distancing, it is unnatural and frankly damaging to try to enforce it.