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.

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.

More kids die in accidents than have died of Covid. You are not looking at the numbers for children. Your risk analysis is wrong.

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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.

Get a grip. Life is moving on. Before you damage your kids further, let them have a childhood.

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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.

Your comment is ridiculous. You’ve likely never even been to the state, much less the school. But, why let that get in the way of your crazy, liberal, stereotypes? Love and tolerance, my ass.

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Honestly it’s time to stop the bunker mentality. Kids are hanging out and you are depriving them of social opportunities based on your fears of what I’d. The vaccine and masks work. Let them out. This is moving to endemic and will never be gone..

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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.

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.

Well, you are certainly proving the point that kids are suffering because adults can’t calculate risk. Anyone who has kids should be drilling into their actual risk level rather than just quoting numbers like 750k without understanding how kids factor into that number.

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

There’s a loud minority of people who are determined to remain in the pandemic forever. Most people ignore them and just live their lives however they want.

I’m sure some of our neighbors disapproved of the fact that we never stopped socializing and having friends and family over during the pandemic. I couldn’t care less what the moral scolds think of me.