Pretty sure my kids will not have a semblance of normal childhood socializing again

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Anonymous wrote:Time to do something about it! You know it’s not healthy and ok to keep your kids from socializing. Seek the help you need to cope with covid anxiety. In 15 yrs you do not want to have adults on your hands who still can’t cope all because you traded their social well being away to lessen the risk of this virus. You’re realizing it, so now it’s time to act.

It’s not healthy for a child to lose a parent either.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s better that way. They won’t know what they’re missing. Try having a kid on their third covid-affected year at college. Imagine finally reaching freedom only to encounter more restrictions than anyone could ever imagine. The whole thing has been a nightmare and a waste of money and time that they can never repeat.

My kid had a pretty normal year at Bama. I was initially resistant to the south but it was the best decision for these times although we couldn’t have predicted it.

This made me laugh out loud. There is absolutely nothing normal at Bama. Most people would choose covid restrictions over a place that accepts racism, The Machine, and zero sense of social responsibility as normal.

That poster does not want to pay for college so it is normal as they send their kids there as they are cheap.

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Anonymous wrote:I was just getting to the point where I was thinking about allowing indoor play dates again. Maybe a small birthday party for my winter birthday kids. My oldest is 12 and fully vaccinated, my younger two have had the first dose. I was thinking after they were fully vaccinated we would try to return to more normalcy with friends. Now this news of a new variant and possible restrictions coming. I am so down and feeling a little hopeless. They miss their friends, normal childhood play, sleepovers. We are cautious and want to protect them and also prevent spread. But I feel like this will consume our lives for a long time and it is so depressing.

This is your doing. The rest of us are back to normal. Maybe that will have to change with a variant. But for now, we are doing parties, movies, trips, the whole shebang

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Our pediatrician is hopeful we will reach a new normal by next summer. Hopefully COVID will be more like flu by then. Most of us will be vaccinated, which helps with not getting really sick.

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Even being as charitable as possible to OP—meaning, she’s not just virtue signaling and genuinely feels a moral obligation to lock down for the benefit of others—she is by her own admission placing that generic sense of duty to “society” over the welfare of her own children.

I think that is really bad parenting. And morally questionable as well.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s better that way. They won’t know what they’re missing. Try having a kid on their third covid-affected year at college. Imagine finally reaching freedom only to encounter more restrictions than anyone could ever imagine. The whole thing has been a nightmare and a waste of money and time that they can never repeat.

My kid had a pretty normal year at Bama. I was initially resistant to the south but it was the best decision for these times although we couldn’t have predicted it.

This made me laugh out loud. There is absolutely nothing normal at Bama. Most people would choose covid restrictions over a place that accepts racism, The Machine, and zero sense of social responsibility as normal.

I know you feel morally superior but she is happy and forgets covid is even happening. Parties, she got a great internship through her sorority for last summer which was even in person and dated a biracial guy for a spell. I’m sorry your kids are doing hybrid classes at Columbia and masking in the form laundry room. Sad for them.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s better that way. They won’t know what they’re missing. Try having a kid on their third covid-affected year at college. Imagine finally reaching freedom only to encounter more restrictions than anyone could ever imagine. The whole thing has been a nightmare and a waste of money and time that they can never repeat.

My kid had a pretty normal year at Bama. I was initially resistant to the south but it was the best decision for these times although we couldn’t have predicted it.

This made me laugh out loud. There is absolutely nothing normal at Bama. Most people would choose covid restrictions over a place that accepts racism, The Machine, and zero sense of social responsibility as normal.

I know you feel morally superior but she is happy and forgets covid is even happening. Parties, she got a great internship through her sorority for last summer which was even in person and dated a biracial guy for a spell. I’m sorry your kids are doing hybrid classes at Columbia and masking in the form laundry room. Sad for them.

So, while you live in your mansion refusing to spend money on your kid, you brag about that school. And you brag who she dated by race. Oh my.

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Anonymous wrote:Even being as charitable as possible to OP—meaning, she’s not just virtue signaling and genuinely feels a moral obligation to lock down for the benefit of others—she is by her own admission placing that generic sense of duty to “society” over the welfare of her own children.

I think that is really bad parenting. And morally questionable as well.

Op is looking for attention and probably back to normal.

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People in DC are pretty extreme about this stuff. My kid is at a sleepover with like 8 other kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Time to do something about it! You know it’s not healthy and ok to keep your kids from socializing. Seek the help you need to cope with covid anxiety. In 15 yrs you do not want to have adults on your hands who still can’t cope all because you traded their social well being away to lessen the risk of this virus. You’re realizing it, so now it’s time to act.

It’s not healthy for a child to lose a parent either.

What does that have to do with anything??

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Anonymous wrote:Time to do something about it! You know it’s not healthy and ok to keep your kids from socializing. Seek the help you need to cope with covid anxiety. In 15 yrs you do not want to have adults on your hands who still can’t cope all because you traded their social well being away to lessen the risk of this virus. You’re realizing it, so now it’s time to act.

It’s not healthy for a child to lose a parent either.

What does that have to do with anything??

It has to do with Covid. Many kids lost a parent.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose Covid kid has never had a birthday party or celebration with anyone but their parents. And I doubt they will before they turn 3/4 because vaccinations are going to take a long time for authorization for the youngest of the youngest.

At least your kids know what normal is.

Wait, the kid is 2 - they’ve only HAD 2 birthdays. Why is it so extraordinary that those first two birthdays were celebrated only with the parents? Not everyone always does it up for birthdays even pre-pandemic. Not everyone lives in the same town as their extended family.

My pre-covid kids did not have birthday parties until they were 3 or 4. For the first few birthdays, we had MIL and FIL over for a meal and had birthday cake and presents (from DH and me and the ILs) after. They are 18 and 22 now and somehow escaped being irrevocably scarred by this experience

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Anonymous wrote:This is crazy. I live in Texas. I am pro vaccine and anti all of our state leadership.

But our kids are back to normal. School is normal. Sports are normal. Playdates are normal. It's all normal.

You have no idea how fortunate you are. I have family in Florida and they are the same way.

Honestly, be thankful for your state leadership. Truly. You have no idea how bad it is here in the DMV. Especially for the kids.

WTF are you talking about? Are your kids not in school? Playing sports? What exactly is your state leadership preventing your kids from doing?

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Anonymous wrote:Time to do something about it! You know it’s not healthy and ok to keep your kids from socializing. Seek the help you need to cope with covid anxiety. In 15 yrs you do not want to have adults on your hands who still can’t cope all because you traded their social well being away to lessen the risk of this virus. You’re realizing it, so now it’s time to act.

It’s not healthy for a child to lose a parent either.

What does that have to do with anything??

It has to do with Covid. Many kids lost a parent.

The chances of dying from Covid if you’re fully vaccinated are extremely low. Kids are already low risk to begin with. Time to let your children out of the cave…

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Anonymous wrote:Time to do something about it! You know it’s not healthy and ok to keep your kids from socializing. Seek the help you need to cope with covid anxiety. In 15 yrs you do not want to have adults on your hands who still can’t cope all because you traded their social well being away to lessen the risk of this virus. You’re realizing it, so now it’s time to act.

This. OP, on Monday morning, you need to call your PCP, make an appointment and get some medication for your anxiety. Your fear of covid is not based in reality and it's harming your kids. There is no (zero) reason your kids could not be doing indoor playdates for months.
This is honestly bordering on abuse. Kids need socialization.