JFDIS
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 28, 2020
You’ve got this! Don’t be discouraged. Things are very different right now and it seems you’re prepared for that. My daughters are 3 and 1 (almost 2) and we’ve been to the parks four time since reopening. My 3 yo would not wear a mask at home for more than two minutes and she definitely wouldn’t wear one if I tried to make her. We stayed at Poly for three days in August and I thought the same as you, if we can’t go into the parks we’ll just make the best of it. I started wearing a mask around the house so she could get used to seeing me in it and I put on YouTube videos of people wearing masks and riding rides at the parks. Very simply I would repeat, ‘You have to wear a mask if you want to go to Disney’. I would say it a few times a day leading up to the trip, then she started to say it too. When we got to Disney she was wearing the mask no problem. She would get tried and hot and take it off. If she refused to wear it I put her in the stroller with the top down and we left the park. Then we’d go back to the resort and hang by the pool. By evening time she was willing to put it on again. As someone who has recently taken toddlers, I can tell you the CM’s and MOST guests understand that at some point they are going to take their masks off when they shouldn’t. When it was too much we’d put her in the stroller for a break and go over to a quite spot or use it as an opportunity to get a snack in the ac somewhere. All in all, a few months is a lot as far as mental development for a toddler. He might surprise you by that time.