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[sorcyress]

So, one of the things you have to get used to when you first start living in a walking-friendly¹ city is that sometimes just walking down the street will be a swarm of toddlers, usually either in The Big Strollers, or holding onto The Leash Of Donuts. It's a bit shocking the first few times, and then pleasant --we can teach wee ones to walk to the park from the daycare! What a great situ!

AND THEN THE PANDEMIC HITS. The twenty or so kids and four adults are the biggest, densest group of people I have seen in, you know, six months or something. I am having a lot of "NOPE NOPE NOPE" feels even though it's probably fine and outside and *SCREAMING*.

My anxiety brain is working *extra* fast today, so that's me.

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Insert your favourite rant on city planning and walk/bike-ability here because we all know Boston area is better than most of the US and that's _actively gross that this is the "better"_.

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

I think we have finally succeeded in enrolling our child in a daycare fancy enough to have one of The Big Strollers. Not that they're doing many field trips right now, but hopefully at some point they will.

[elusiveat]

Our preschool is (at least in theory) *increasing* playground time, to minimize the time that the kids are indoors, breathing each other's air.

[crystalpyramid]

Yeah, having an outdoor playground seems like a huge asset right now. My kid's still under 2, so if the options are "no mask indoors" vs "no mask outdoors", outdoors clearly wins.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm... I might have been a little unclear. These playgrounds aren't part of the school. They're public parks. I'm not sure how the school is getting the littlest kids there, though...