Dear Care and Feeding: My Neighbor Keeps Letting Her Sick Child Play With Ours

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Dear Care and Feeding: My Neighbor Keeps Letting Her Sick Child Play With Ours
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How can I get my neighbor to keep her sick child away from ours?

I live in a small neighborhood and have two kids, 2 and 4. We have been letting our kids play with a few other neighborhood kids during COVID. My kids do not attend day care or preschool and are with me or my spouse for child care. Recently, while the kids were all hanging out in my backyard, my neighbor brought her 2-year-old son over, let him interact with the kids, then told us he wasn’t feeling well. My husband noticed right away that he did not look well and removed our kids from the group.

If someone brings a visibly ill kid over, send them home. If you don’t want your children around kids who you know previously interacted with a sick-looking kid, are you planning on waiting 14 days? Because at that point, I would just give up on playing with the neighborhood kids and be happy you have a 2- and 4-year-olds and a backyard and let them amuse themselves. I just don’t see a way you can relax and also play with the neighborhood kids.

When school went remote last year, it became clear that there was a pretty big discrepancy in what he was doing at school and what he does at home with us. For example, he can do addition with two- or three-digit numbers, simple multiplication, and understands negative numbers. These are things that we taught him from his questions ; we’re not drilling him on math worksheets or something at home. In school, he is doing simple single-digit addition.

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