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@edwina958 I was gonna sign my 1 year old up for some parks and rec programs but in light of omicron, I think we’ll wait until spring. We were hoping for vaccination this spring and then putting her in daycare, but now it’s all up in the air.

@recycledapathy I feel like it would be useful to focus on what elements make a daycare good/provide the best outcomes, and then take those and conclude that we should all be pressuring governments and institutions to implement those standards for all daycares. Like, daycares can be good, but...

@rockdrik Yep. I realize it’s reasonable to expect every every bit of science to be presented with practical application to parenting or with defined policy you can take to a politician and say “do it!”, but I have sometimes had negative reactions from people here who just post the science and...

@rockhopper72 I would like to also emphasize my additional response: I guess what I’m saying is, I worry that the phrasing of this rule will embolden folks who think this place is only for posting research and who try to shut down or belittle comments about feelings/reactions to it) even if...

@guilhermesilva My kiddo was the same. We just made a conscious effort not to just interpret, but to respond like you would with another adult. “Do I want oranges? Not right now, thank you. Would you like oranges?” “You wanna go to the park!” “Please say, ‘I want to go to the park, Mama’ and...

@hancha But part of the problem is that that early data was based on very few kids getting infected, because schools were closed. Transmission in schools also cause community spread. That’s why schools have had vaccine mandates for decades. They also made those decisions based on economic...

@lionheartiv My kid didn’t go into a pool until 2 either and now at 3.5 is finally doing swimming lessons and having fun with it. Maybe your kid just doesn’t love the water. That’s okay. You can try again next year or the following year and it’ll be fine. I sure as hell didn’t have swimming...

@hancha I would also add that where I live, taking away masking policies in schools dramatically increased cases…until the government stopped tracking cases in schools. The lockdowns were necessary because we had no idea what we were dealing with. We now know that it’s airborne. Clean air in...

@lionheartiv Isn’t the underlying problem you described just a lack of (paid) parental leave for parents of babies/young toddlers? You don’t need to mask at home with family. In Canada we can have mat/parental leave up to 18 months. You’re not required to bring them to baby activities etc and...

@hancha https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7102e2.htm https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00115-5/fulltext Is every child infected with measles going to die? No, but we still try to eradicate that virus.

@churchface The other angle is that her questionable opinions and the way she’s funded make it morally irresponsible to support her.

@apor2017 Are there any basic local parks and recreation ballet or dance classes? In my experience they're not as hardcore...

@trandraskell I would not let a stranger watch my baby. Maybe if it was the clinic’s staff. But goddamn I have not lived through this pandemic to have some stranger give my child their germs. In any case, my kid would have thrown a fit at a stranger holding her without me in sight when she was a...

@lookintochat Yep. We have a national $10/day daycare program, but the provinces have to implement it and ours has done a terrible job of it and made it really cumbersome for daycares to apply. Even then, there’s very little standardization so some aren’t as nice as others.

@lookintochat Yeah. I’m in Canada and there’s overlap of issues but it’s obviously different in terms of mat/parental leave, but we also have a lot of daycare struggles and are far from universal.

@brendawwentz What country is this for? And will the subreddit be exclusive to one location/country?

@perrero I think only you can know how your little one will take it, truly. Some kids might be fine but others would absolutely be messed up about it for a while. My kiddo would have been really upset even that that age, I think. Even now a year older and a weekend away is stressful for all...

@churchface But they’re not contrasting that with years of life lost via long term health conditions developed as a result of covid, or from family members dying or having lifelong health complication from covid infections. Like, what do you want to bet the kid with one dead parent and the other...

@churchface The idea that lockdowns did more damage is bonkers, and based on no empirical evidence, especially given how uneven “lockdowns” were. In many cases they were, maximum, a couple months. By like May/June 2020 it seemed like most of the US was back to normal. Children can get long...