Community Chat

[pitdakota]

Our governor started asking day cares to come up with a plan to be able to close within 72 hours after being given notice toward the end of last week.  This morning he also mentioned it and said it may become a reality sometime this week.

Since this has been covered extensively, I have seen many young girls posting suggestions and getting together as groups to help come up with ideas and offers to help others.  Our next door neighbor app is also full of thoughts and ideas.  Some women that already home school their children are offering to do quick check ins on some of the older school age children during the day.

Others are talking about situations in which there is an older child that can help with a younger child and setting up in house cameras or the Amazon show so that parents can check in or monitor the kids during the day.

Lots of things being discussed out there.  Doesn't mean it will be easy if it comes to that, or that it will work for everyone, but it is heartening to see how so many are coming together to try and have a plan to work the problem. 

[homedecor1]

They are at our pool!!!😉

I think every kid was at our over 55 community pool today🙈😡 with their grandparents, families and whoever else tagged along!

By 10:30 there was not a chair, chaise available and kids everywhere!

Of course, it is Spring Break for our school system and we are used to "outsiders" this time of year but boy this was surprising!

I know many of the residents here (most over 70) lodged complaint to management & others at pool -- I'm sure the complaints will fall on "deaf ears"! 

our clubhouse activities are cancelled including limited bar hours -- yet, let anyone and everyone into the pool area -- doesn't make sense to me!!!

[Carmie]

Unless the kids are babies, many will be home alone all day...just like they are in the summertime.

If the weather is nice, they will be running outside and playing.  

Our news has been showing parents complaining that they will now have to feed their kids at home. And some stay at home mothers are complaining that their kids have been sent home with school work to do and since they are not teachers, they don't think it is fair that they will have to teach their kids.

This should be interesting.

[RetRN]

I foresee a nightmare.

[suzyQ3]

Here in California they are opening something like 40 daycare centers to address the problem. I think that's great, but I don't think that is enough.

I do hope that parents are VERY careful about choosing some apparently very nice person offering to help.

[tansy]

I'm concerned for my neighbors.  They are well into their 60s, maybe more, but are planning to fly East to watch their grand-kids for two weeks.  What could go wrong? 😳😬

[RetRN]

What couldn't go wrong. Yikes.

[willomenia]

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@Anonymous032819 wrote:

Well, according to some people, the parents should have foreseen something like this could happen, and made plans for it, or they should have never have had the kids in the first place.

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Not foreseen the virus, but anything that could happen where your kids might have to stay home. Maybe its time for family time. On the news just now, a little girl interviewed about missing school said, I'm sad to be missing school, but looking forward to being able to spend time with my family. How sad. They are your children, you say they come first, act like it.

[Mz iMac]

On the local news it was announced if you are unable to work because of the virus ie, taking care of someone, no daycare, yourself is sick, your business shut down or went out of business, etc.........

You are elegible for Unemployment and/or Workmen's Comp effective "immediately."   Sign up online to get your $$$$ ASAP.

The above is for folks living in PA.

In N.J. the governor is leaving it up to each county weither to keep daycare open or not.  In my county, all "licensed" daycare centers are closed.  Reading between the lines, take your kids to the "unlicensed" daycare centers which every neighborhood has in my neck of the woods.

It was also stressed that groups should be 10 people, no more.  Down from the previous 250 then down to 50.

[Sooner]

It would be a good way for churches to step in.  Some already have day care too.  But they could expand camps and programs for older kids.  

Help with lessons they are studying, have fun things for them to do.