If your child is attending school in person, what precautions are you taking when they get home for the day? Changing clothes? Shower? Are you wiping down their backpack or school supplies?
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My kids are at distance learning care. The only thing I have them do is wash their hands when they get home because that's our coming inside practice. I don't really think it's going to prevent anything since I'm sure they find ways to put their hands in their mouths and be gross all day long even with masks.
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Washing hands.
DH is essential and has been working out of the house the entire time, and he is only washing hands as well. The main driver of infection is respiratory droplets person-person and not via fomites so I don't feel like they need to change clothes or anything when they get home.
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@bees_knees: we’re only doing hands too. I’ve been working the whole time also
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When I was teaching all summer and the kids were in daycare we all came in through the laundry room, stripped into the washer and showered and put on clean clothes.
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Washing their hands. The likelihood they’re going to pass along COVID from clothing or Supplies is so low.
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This honestly hadn’t even occurred to me, but we’ll just be washing hands like we do whenever we leave the house.
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My younger has been in daycare for almost 2 months and I’ve worked out of the house. We do wash hands and change clothes when we both get home. Mostly I do because I like to change into comfy clothes but it makes me feel better to just take it all off for both of us.
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thanks for raising this, we are getting set to start in person so it is useful to think about. i think other than washing hands the only thing i want to be extra careful about is masks, since the kids will be wearing masks all day and i want to make sure we're religious about collecting them on entry and getting them segregated into the wash.
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@nwm: I put a small bucket right next to our door, we all drop our masks in as we walk through the door. DH is the one using it most right now but it has helped stop him from taking them around the house. Every few days I grab them to wash. The clean ones go back in the mud room closet so they are easy to grab as we leave.
We all wash hands as soon as we get home, so DD will do that right away. I think we plan on leaving her backpack and lunch box in the mud room, since they are harder to clean. We’ll just take out what we need when we get home. Not sure about showering and changing. In the beginning we would shower and change right away but have stopped for the most part. DH still does when he gets home from work but that’s because he is around people all day and he just feels better doing it. I don’t think we’ll have DD do it.
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This post is quite timely as we start on Tuesday. We don't have a good drop zone/mudroom yet but will be building one in a month when we convert our 3 season room into a 4 season room with cubbies for all of our stuff. This will change how we enter our house from the garage. While before I was thinking we had time to clean that room out and get it ready for construction, now I"m thinking that we do a lot of the work this weekend and get it staged so that we can start to get used to using it. We can move all of our shoes and stuff out there so that we have a place to keep those plus the backpacks and masks. Then we will just do what we normally do and come straight in and wash our hands.
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We have a full bath coming into the house from the garage. So all bags/shoes will stay in the garage and one of us will go through them later. Clothes off straight into washer drum in the basement, then shower before coming upstairs. That's what I do now coming home from work.
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both of my kids will be attending full time - I just plan on washing hands and facemasks when they get home each day.
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I started working in a school this week - I shower and change as soon as I get home. Probably not necessary from a safety perspective, but it makes me feel less icky. We've got a bin for mask drop by the door.
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