Is anyone avoiding Home Ed groups due to swine flu?

[ChumbleBum]

I know it sounds odd and I am truly conflicted because I know how important the home ed group is to my DS socialisation but I am TERRIFIED of him getting swine flu, am I the only one ?

I think you need to unwrap him from that cotton wool

BBG Well that was helpful !! Do you go to Home Ed groups then???? What I was wondering was if other home edders are worried about the swine flu in their area but maybe my post was a bit complicated for you? Cannot stand it when people just post spiteful remarks just to make themselves feel better, if I am wrong then I apologise unreservedly. FWIW DS suffers from asthma which makes it doubly worrying.

No I don't mumblechum. My dc go to school which I assume is the same principle as these meetups. You cannot quarantine yourselves in your house when the risk is minimal, it is ludicrous.

you can get flu anywhere, from door handles, sitting on a bus, walking around asda.

Are you all sat inside until it blows over?

Do what you feel happy with and then you will feel you have done your best. My older son is at school, but has asthma so every flu or cold takes him right down. He just has to have lots of days off until he is better.

My younger one is home educated but isn't affected badly by colds, apart from wanting me to tell him it is flu! With him, if only he did want to go to lots of home ed meet ups, but they aren't his thing at all.

Have you had the flu jab yourself to reduce the risk? I got mine in Sainsbury's, it was very easy.

Does your son have a medical condition which puts him at particular risk if he does catch it, ChumbleBum? If not, perhaps you could compare the risk of him catching flu and suffering serious harm from it against other risky activities such as car journeys, which perhaps don't frighten you as much. (I have no idea how they compare, but I'm sure you could dig up some statistics.)

Apparently the risk of catching flu increases as you have direct contact with more people. This can be physical contact or being close enough to have a conversation.

You might be able to reduce the risk tremendously by having just one or two kids over for playdates. My dd used to have playdates with a little girl who was being HEd because of cystic fibrosis. The school environment had subjected her to constant illnesses, each of which landed her in hospital for a couple weeks. Her parents found that she didn't get ill very often if they just had one child at a time over for playdates. She did do large-group activities as well, but only if they were outdoors. That kept the children and their germs farther away from each other.