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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

[Anonymous]

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.

Unless your kids or you have underlying health issues, this is absurd. We’ve been socializing normally since last spring. My youngest is 11. We live in FFX Co., kids vaxxed at first opportunity, as are their friends, and no one I know is restricting their kids at this point.

My advice is lighten up. A lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

My 9yo dd had Covid. It was a fever for two days. That’s it. It is not a serious illness for children with rare exceptions, on par with the flu. We have to stop the fear-mongering that has no basis in reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

I live in NW DC and I don't ANYONE who isn't having indoor playdates Each of my kids has had them with 20+ kids. Sleepovers, playdates, etc. My neighbors are all having them with their kids--I see the kids coming and going most day and every weekend. I've been to many indoor gatherings including indoor parties for sponsored events. My kids have been to many birthday parties. I've been to dinner parties.

I don't know how to break it to you but life is back to normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

I live in NW DC and I don't ANYONE who isn't having indoor playdates Each of my kids has had them with 20+ kids. Sleepovers, playdates, etc. My neighbors are all having them with their kids--I see the kids coming and going most day and every weekend. I've been to many indoor gatherings including indoor parties for sponsored events. My kids have been to many birthday parties. I've been to dinner parties.

I don't know how to break it to you but life is back to normal.

Previous poster again.
Meant to type "school-sponsored" events.

My kid's school is having unmasked, indoor parties for end-of-year school-sports team gatherings.
Life is back to normal. We are all living normal lives.
You are welcome to bunker down until the end of time but I would suggest otherwise for the sake of your children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

My 9yo dd had Covid. It was a fever for two days. That’s it. It is not a serious illness for children with rare exceptions, on par with the flu. We have to stop the fear-mongering that has no basis in reality.

You are very fortunate everyone is healthy in your family and covid was no big deal. That isn't true for everyone. 750K people dying is not fear mongering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

I live in NW DC and I don't ANYONE who isn't having indoor playdates Each of my kids has had them with 20+ kids. Sleepovers, playdates, etc. My neighbors are all having them with their kids--I see the kids coming and going most day and every weekend. I've been to many indoor gatherings including indoor parties for sponsored events. My kids have been to many birthday parties. I've been to dinner parties.

I don't know how to break it to you but life is back to normal.

We know most people are back to normal and most who say they are cautious are not actually cautious which is why we avoid people like you but OP kids are back to normal.

[Anonymous]

OP, the risk for kids has always been low, although of course still there. Just keep bundling them up and have outdoor playdates or ask them to wear a mask indoors and run an air purifier. It doesn't get too cold around here until January.

I am not too worried about my kids, even the one who is too young to be vaccinated. They are mostly still having outdoor playdates but do participate in indoor sports. With the new variant, what I worry about is surges in areas with low vaccination rates and I worry for my adult relatives who are still not vaccinated (they cannot be convinced by now unfortunately).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

By your logic, every parent who puts a child in a car, a swimming pool or on a bike is abusive, then. That’s about how harmful an indoor play date is right now, at max. Please don’t study your children psychologically by justifying that it will somehow control this virus. It won’t. Sorry, but that was never going to happen. I’d love to think we could get rid of this thing, but it’s here to stay. Time to stop letting kids bear the brunt of this virus because adults can’t or won’t do risk calculations.

[Anonymous]

Stunt* not study

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

By your logic, every parent who puts a child in a car, a swimming pool or on a bike is abusive, then. That’s about how harmful an indoor play date is right now, at max. Please don’t study your children psychologically by justifying that it will somehow control this virus. It won’t. Sorry, but that was never going to happen. I’d love to think we could get rid of this thing, but it’s here to stay. Time to stop letting kids bear the brunt of this virus because adults can’t or won’t do risk calculations.

You logic makes zero sense as none of those things have killed as many as Covid has but if that’s how you need to rationalize it, great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

My 9yo dd had Covid. It was a fever for two days. That’s it. It is not a serious illness for children with rare exceptions, on par with the flu. We have to stop the fear-mongering that has no basis in reality.

750k people out of a world population of 7+ billion. The overwhelming majority of those 750k were either elderly or had underlying conditions.
You are very fortunate everyone is healthy in your family and covid was no big deal. That isn't true for everyone. 750K people dying is not fear mongering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

My 9yo dd had Covid. It was a fever for two days. That’s it. It is not a serious illness for children with rare exceptions, on par with the flu. We have to stop the fear-mongering that has no basis in reality.

You are very fortunate everyone is healthy in your family and covid was no big deal. That isn't true for everyone. 750K people dying is not fear mongering.

No, we weren’t “fortunate”. We had an expected course with it. Dh and I are vaccinated, so we didn’t catch it. Dd had a mild case, which is typical for 9 year olds. More children die of the flu in a typical year than have died from Covid. If you wouldn’t have taken extraordinary precautions during flu season pre-Covid, it doesn’t make sense to keep your kids locked down now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

By your logic, every parent who puts a child in a car, a swimming pool or on a bike is abusive, then. That’s about how harmful an indoor play date is right now, at max. Please don’t study your children psychologically by justifying that it will somehow control this virus. It won’t. Sorry, but that was never going to happen. I’d love to think we could get rid of this thing, but it’s here to stay. Time to stop letting kids bear the brunt of this virus because adults can’t or won’t do risk calculations.

You logic makes zero sense as none of those things have killed as many as Covid has but if that’s how you need to rationalize it, great.

NP, but what PP was talking about is clearly risk to otherwise healthy children from Covid, which is on par with car accidents and drowning. Both are not much but not zero. See a therapist for your anxiety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Actually you putting your kids in harmful situations where they can get covid is far more abusive and you need to get to a therapist for your personality disorder. Many kids don't have play dates let alone indoor ones and are fine. Covid is still very serious and no 11 and under are fully vaccinated. People like you are why covid is still here, spreading and mutating. We have you to thank.

By your logic, every parent who puts a child in a car, a swimming pool or on a bike is abusive, then. That’s about how harmful an indoor play date is right now, at max. Please don’t study your children psychologically by justifying that it will somehow control this virus. It won’t. Sorry, but that was never going to happen. I’d love to think we could get rid of this thing, but it’s here to stay. Time to stop letting kids bear the brunt of this virus because adults can’t or won’t do risk calculations.

You logic makes zero sense as none of those things have killed as many as Covid has but if that’s how you need to rationalize it, great.

NP. Swimming and riding in cars kills way more kids ever year than COVID has.