Haven't seen a thread yet - how are your kids holding up??

My grandkids left a beautiful pot of flowers outside the lobby of my condo building.  The greenhouse growers in Niagara have so many pots of flowers for Easter and then Mother's Day and are not able to bring to markets, so they are encouraging people to come to their farms and buy flowers from them there. 

Then, the were headed to Lake Ontario for a field trip on the water - fishing.  This is a sport/hobby that they all love to do.  I had just baked chocolate chip cookies and had a few juiceboxes, so they have a treat while on the water.  I'm sure that Lake Ontario will be isolated and will provide the 6 ft distance between boats.  They are all healthy and LOVE being outside.

I have a pretty steady 18 year old. Her school started online learning last Wednesday and she is at her desk working most of the hours of her normal school day. Some of her classes are meeting on Zoom so it's fun to see her classmates faces and hear their voices. She made a schedule the first day home and she wakes up at her normal school time. She scheduled in school, breakfast, lunch, dinner, exercise, and fun! She's pretty much stuck to it.

My husband and I are both working at home during our regularly scheduled hours as well, so outside of location, we're all business as usual.

My daughter will be missing prom and likely graduation and all the traditions of ending senior year. She pretty much takes things in stride though. I know she's missing her friends. We played Boggle over facetime with her two best friends and their moms last night. And we're cutting fabric to sew masks as soon as my order for the material to make the ties comes in today.

Mine are 3, 7, 9, and 10. They are all handling this a lot better than I am. The : year old is THRILLED that her siblings are here all day every day, and will happily play with her when she asks. 😂

The 7 and 9 year olds are happy as long as they get to watch some shows/movies and play video games and go outside.

The 10 year old is doing surprisingly well. She gets like 6-8 hrs of work from her teacher a day to do online. It’s a lot. But she likes doing it. She misses her friends like crazy. But she has FaceTime and messenger kids on there and a lot of them also have that. So she gets to talk with them and sometimes see them. I think that access to friends, plus lots of good books and crafts and some outside time make for a pretty happy kiddo.

Meh. DS9 is playing wayyyy too many video games and watching way too much youtube He's not required to do any schooling so we're just making him read some and the few worksheets he was sent home with. I got him hooked up with Facebook Messenger kids so he can chat with some of his classmates. He's finally stopped asking me for a friend to come over so either he gave up or he finally gets it, not sure which.

It's finally nice out today so DS18 is planning to go fishing.....probably not technically "exercise" (since we're on a stay at home order) but more isolated than say running or biking thru town. The idea of it lifted his spirits a bit. He's also been playing too many video games and staying up too late/sleeping too late. I asked him yesterday how he was handling his senior year ending like this and he said it sucks but he's not as upset as I expected. He's bummed about missing out on stuff, the one thing he is really bummed about missing is their senior prank....they've thinking about a senior prank since they were freshman! They had a great idea and now, even if they go back to school, they won't be able to do it b/c it'll be "too soon" (they were going to wrap the school in caution tape as if it were "closed"). Right now decisions haven't been made about a return date/prom/graduation/etc so as those decisions are made his mood will obviously change.

My oldest was on spring break last week, but his semester continued as of today. He's bored, but I'm hoping his workload will keep him busy. He can go back to campus. He lives off campus, but no one is around. As long as he can handle on-line classes and maintain his grades he is welcome here. I just hope he doesn't go too stir crazy.

My youngest is on spring break this week, so he's catching up on his much needed chillax. Next week he'll be back it from home. Once the quarantine is over he still has to wait until the end of the quarter to go back to his apartment. He'll likely spend time there this summer doing lab work.

Mine are 15 and 18. They are doing okay. A little bored, but not bad.

They miss sports both watching and playing

DD(22) is a social butterfly and really struggling with no work, no gym and no friends. She is walking the dog 600 times a day and has taken on the long overdue task of deep cleaning her bedroom. I had to laugh when she asked yesterday if there was anywhere she could donate the three pairs of old glasses she uncovered. She is having virtual lunch dates and happy hours and revisiting all her childhood favorites on Disney streaming (Hanna Montanna, That's So Raven, etc.).

DS(21) was doing okay last week, but struggling a bit now and even voluntarily went out to weed the garden. He still has college classes to keep him busy but his BFF is in town and believes social distancing means you hang out with everyone at your house instead of going to a bar, restaurant, movie, etc., so it is a struggle.

My 22 y.o. DD is having a really tough time. She was supposed to graduate in May and that has been cancelled, along with her senior art show and all other activities. She was planning to go to NY for spring break to network and meet up with her contacts for job prospects and that got canned. And now she’ll be finishing up school in probably the worst economy we’ve ever seen.

I really feel terrible for all the high school and college seniors that have had all their special moments taken away.

My 18 y.o. twins are doing ok. One is very social and really missing the interaction with friends, but they’re FaceTiming every available moment.

My 2yr old is having serious Nana and Pops withdrawal. Other than his daddy, they are his favorite people. He is used to seeing them a few times a week, other than they watch him every Wednesday.

We have been facetiming his school friends as well as family fairly often. That seems to help a bit.

I let my boys do whatever they wanted last week because it was their official spring break (we just couldn't go anywhere fun and they did have some chores to do). They are happy to play XBox all day, but don't protest too much when I force them outside or into the car for a ride.

14yo--He's doing ok, but I think he misses doing weights and other preseason activities for baseball. He really misses having any sports to watch on tv. His public school district isn't prepared to do any sort of online learning because so many kids probably don't have any access or consistent access. The state also says districts can't mandate online learning so they aren't even trying. The district offered a few ideas to keep kids occupied, but as a very smart 9th grader nothing is a good fit for him (just finished Geometry, is in year 1 of German, Chemistry, etc.) He was in the middle of a PE class where he was learning to umpire and referee, so I'll be sad if he can't finish that. He was also halfway through Drivers Ed--and I really need him to finish that ASAP! Thankfully its through a private company so they don't have to follow the rules for the schools, but they are for now (which is fine). I'm not sure what to do for him both physically and mentally for at least the next 3 weeks.

12yo--yah...fun. His private school started online learning on Tuesday. They can do it easily because the kids already had school-issued laptops and were already using Google Classrooms (Zoom is new for them though). The worst part is I'm still working about 13 hours a week and most of those are when his classes are scheduled. He's fine with the Zoom lessons and most of the homework, but that's only if he remembers. I set a reminder on his phone for each class, but the one for this afternoon didn't go off so he forgot to log on for a class. He's also ADHD and does not like to take his meds if he's not going to school--I can't convince him he needs to take them, even if he isn't physically going to school. I'm afraid one of his teachers is going to have them do a lot of work that is not what he likes to do (I can just envision her saying "oh, this looks like it will be fun for the kids to do"...and those are the ones he struggles with the most!)

So needless to say it's going to be hard with one son doing classes and the other not having anything official to do.