Anyone else taking strict Covid precautions with their kid(s) and worried about them not having kid to kid interaction for so long?

We use my parents for daycare but they're at risk so that means no other people outside of the bubble. Curious how common this is and what strategies people have

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Yes and yes. Starting in July, we expanded our bubble to include 2 other families with similar aged kids. All similarly cautious: wfh, virtual school, etc. We do weekend play dates etc. If any familiar breaks the bubble, they sit out for 10 days. Its great.

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It’s actually been a challenge as we moved across the country in Feb. and had about 6 weeks to make friends before the world went sideways. If we hadn’t moved, finding similarly cautious friends with similar aged kids would have been a snap - many of our existing friends would have fit the bill.

As it is, we found people mostly through school. One family has 3 kids that are staggered 1 kid younger than ours. Their oldest and our middle were in pre-K and soccer together. The other lives on our block and happens to have 1 kid in same the virtual 1st grade (of 14 kids) as our oldest. They’re actually going to each other’s house 1-2 day’s/wk to do virtual class together to spread the load.

We met/interviewed 3 other families but they had different enough approaches to bubbling or schooling that it wasn’t a good fit.

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