Sad kids have to live through this pandemic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Covid sucks for all of us, but I'm really struggling with what it is taking away from kids. My kids have given up more than a year of early elementary school and all of the learning and socialization and guided activities and play. Their parents have been super stressed out having them home while working full-time to make ends meet, and it has changed our relationship. We have good times together, but a lot of the time we are just maxed out and don't parent well. They have to deal with so much worry about illness. One parent got asymptomatic covid and they worried the parent was going to die... but they also covered their mouths and held their breath when they were safely inside and saw the parent outside the back door (masked) coming up to get food left outside for them during a 10-day isolation. They have had to miss camp due to covid exposure. Through all of this, they have lost their sense of safety and a carefree childhood. And this is just the kids who haven't lost a loved one.

I'm really sad and scared because we don't know when this is going to be over. I was relieved when thought this school year might be semi-normal for them, but now we have delta. I don't know how to make this better for my kids when I'm overtaxed from work + parenting (quarantine) and burned out physically and emotionally from the last year plus. How do you work through these emotions and make the best of the situation?

Well, your grandkids will have it much worse because they'll deal with war, civilization collapses, and possible food collapse due to global warming, so they will see their lives as luxurious in comparison.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Covid sucks for all of us, but I'm really struggling with what it is taking away from kids. My kids have given up more than a year of early elementary school and all of the learning and socialization and guided activities and play. Their parents have been super stressed out having them home while working full-time to make ends meet, and it has changed our relationship. We have good times together, but a lot of the time we are just maxed out and don't parent well. They have to deal with so much worry about illness. One parent got asymptomatic covid and they worried the parent was going to die... but they also covered their mouths and held their breath when they were safely inside and saw the parent outside the back door (masked) coming up to get food left outside for them during a 10-day isolation. They have had to miss camp due to covid exposure. Through all of this, they have lost their sense of safety and a carefree childhood. And this is just the kids who haven't lost a loved one.

I'm really sad and scared because we don't know when this is going to be over. I was relieved when thought this school year might be semi-normal for them, but now we have delta. I don't know how to make this better for my kids when I'm overtaxed from work + parenting (quarantine) and burned out physically and emotionally from the last year plus. How do you work through these emotions and make the best of the situation?

Well, your grandkids will have it much worse because they'll deal with war, civilization collapses, and possible food collapse due to global warming, so they will see their lives as luxurious in comparison.

To clarify, I mean your kids will see their childhoods as luxurious in comparison to their own children's childhoods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It pisses me off that adults are refusing the vaccine and because of them Delta is spreading. We could have been through the Worst of it by now.

It pisses me off people cannot cool it with their behavior to help keep our kids health and those who are vaccinated healthy. Unvaccinated in this area are not the issue and there are plenty of vaccinated cases so we need those not vaccinated to get vaccinated and everyone to cool it for a few months so we can try to beat this. AND, we need to get vaccines to other countries given US citizens feel the need to travel abroad and bring it back. Its not as simple as just getting unvaccinated vaccinated anymore.

It truly sucks. Some of us have kept our kids home for over a year and are easily looking at another year. At this point, we are not sending our kids back and have zero plan since we are not prepared to homeschool. Never in a million years would I have considered covid.

So, I blame all those traveling, dining out, having large parties, indoor activities, etc.

I suggest you look at the data.

I am looking at the data and news.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It pisses me off that adults are refusing the vaccine and because of them Delta is spreading. We could have been through the Worst of it by now.

It pisses me off people cannot cool it with their behavior to help keep our kids health and those who are vaccinated healthy. Unvaccinated in this area are not the issue and there are plenty of vaccinated cases so we need those not vaccinated to get vaccinated and everyone to cool it for a few months so we can try to beat this. AND, we need to get vaccines to other countries given US citizens feel the need to travel abroad and bring it back. Its not as simple as just getting unvaccinated vaccinated anymore.

It truly sucks. Some of us have kept our kids home for over a year and are easily looking at another year. At this point, we are not sending our kids back and have zero plan since we are not prepared to homeschool. Never in a million years would I have considered covid.

So, I blame all those traveling, dining out, having large parties, indoor activities, etc.

I suggest you look at the data.

I am looking at the data and news.

And what part of the data and news even remotely suggests this is the fault of vaccinated people?

[Anonymous]

Children are the ones who are truly getting robbed by this virus.

It is so unfair.
But then again…..when is life ever truly fair??!

[Anonymous]

I am worried about covid as well, but we raised white flag after a few months with kid staying at home while wfh last year. We send kids back to daycare in person once they were reopened, and so far as of today, none of them got covid as far as I know. One kid is going to public K, and the other one stays in daycare. We have told grandparents that we are not going to see them till after kids are vaccinated & they got 3rd booster shot because I am super worried about public school covid spread. If my kids get covid, we (vaccinated parents) will take it, but we limit spreading it to vaccinated grandparents.

We parents are wfh, vaccinated, and no dine in/dine out, no social life, and kids almost stay home except going to daycare. I see my friends take their unvaccinated kid traveling and going everywhere, I admit I am jealous but I am not going to copy them because you never know what could happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Children are the ones who are truly getting robbed by this virus.

It is so unfair.
But then again…..when is life ever truly fair??!

There is no promise or guarantee that life will be fair and our lifestyles as we know them uninterrupted, even for children. To believe otherwise (again, even for children) is setting a false expectation.

[Anonymous]

Totally agree with you OP. It sucks!

[Anonymous]

I agree with you OP.

It does suck!

People no longer care about the greater good. Only the annoyance of wearing a mask or the low risk of side effects of a vaccine.

Most kids around here will be fine. They have engaged parents and safe outdoor places to play. But, there are many, many children who are losing out on critical years of education that they will never get back.

It’s also all the low wage / hourly workers struggling. It is the industries that have been decimated. Those people have families.

It is walking around and seeing all the empty store fronts and realizing those were peoples livelihoods.

Yes, many people have it worse. I see it everyday when I turn on the TV or read the news. But that doesn’t mean OP can’t grieve her children’s lost childhood.

Many, many children will suffer long term educational and psychological impacts. These are probably not the kidsin your neighborhood, but trust me, they are out there.

[Anonymous]

Typical narcissist DCUM post by OP. Your snowflakes will be just fine. Be glad you’re not trying to flee Afghanistan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It pisses me off that adults are refusing the vaccine and because of them Delta is spreading. We could have been through the Worst of it by now.

It pisses me off people cannot cool it with their behavior to help keep our kids health and those who are vaccinated healthy. Unvaccinated in this area are not the issue and there are plenty of vaccinated cases so we need those not vaccinated to get vaccinated and everyone to cool it for a few months so we can try to beat this. AND, we need to get vaccines to other countries given US citizens feel the need to travel abroad and bring it back. Its not as simple as just getting unvaccinated vaccinated anymore.

It truly sucks. Some of us have kept our kids home for over a year and are easily looking at another year. At this point, we are not sending our kids back and have zero plan since we are not prepared to homeschool. Never in a million years would I have considered covid.

So, I blame all those traveling, dining out, having large parties, indoor activities, etc.

I suggest you look at the data.

There is no reason to keep your kids for another year. Yes we need to get more people vaccinated but closing schools was a decision and keeping them closed for so long was a bad decision. You need to go look at data. Little is going to change about the situation so I suggest you learn to live with it instead of putting your children’s lives on pause forever.

[Anonymous]

Why are they not socializing for so long?
Also, sure it is hard, but come on, my grandma raised three kids through Second World War. Her husband was shot while escaping a smaller concentration camp, and he survived.
My dad was born in 1937 and lost almost all of his hair due to the lack of hygiene, and he and his two brothers went on to become engineers! From a super low-income family, too.
Communists took almost all l the land from both my grandpas and from my paternal grandmother.
My maternal grandpa escaped to the mountains of Bosnia as a 17-year-old to escape the Croatian Ustasha death camps and operated a machine gun during the war.
Why did I post all this? It is, after all, not an Olympics of misery. I posted bcs we are all raising kids who think not seeing Johnny on the weekends is equivalent to a death sentence. But, having said that, why were they not seeing Johny? If you are a reasonable person with risk assessment, you would have realized that seeing Johny is not that dangerous, that most American kids were in schools all last year, and that you could maybe put them in a private, that taking road trips is not dangerous at all if you take proper precautions.

So, sure it would be way better if things were not covid, but somehow I doubt your kids are all that damaged from this If you have limited their social lives past last summer, well I think they are suffering bcs of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Typical narcissist DCUM post by OP. Your snowflakes will be just fine. Be glad you’re not trying to flee Afghanistan.

You can be thankful to not have to flee Afghanistan, or be living in Yemen, or a trailer in West Virginia, and at the same time be sad that Covid has made life for your kids less enjoyable than it would have been otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It pisses me off that adults are refusing the vaccine and because of them Delta is spreading. We could have been through the Worst of it by now.

It pisses me off people cannot cool it with their behavior to help keep our kids health and those who are vaccinated healthy. Unvaccinated in this area are not the issue and there are plenty of vaccinated cases so we need those not vaccinated to get vaccinated and everyone to cool it for a few months so we can try to beat this. AND, we need to get vaccines to other countries given US citizens feel the need to travel abroad and bring it back. Its not as simple as just getting unvaccinated vaccinated anymore.

It truly sucks. Some of us have kept our kids home for over a year and are easily looking at another year. At this point, we are not sending our kids back and have zero plan since we are not prepared to homeschool. Never in a million years would I have considered covid.

So, I blame all those traveling, dining out, having large parties, indoor activities, etc.

I suggest you look at the data.

There is no reason to keep your kids for another year. Yes we need to get more people vaccinated but closing schools was a decision and keeping them closed for so long was a bad decision. You need to go look at data. Little is going to change about the situation so I suggest you learn to live with it instead of putting your children’s lives on pause forever.

Amen! Little has changed, but what has changed is that now no risk is acceptable. How do these people let their kids play soccer or even play in the backyards? Right now, these kids in the DMV are in more danger from ticks! They can end up severely handicapped if not ill for life if they get Lyme disease, and ticks are literally in every piece o grass in the DMV!
What terrible parents expose their kids to a chance that is so high to get Lyme disease?
(Yep, I am being facetious! That has to be added bcs dcum is full of drones.)
You not letting your kids go out and play when most of the kids here are in camps all day long, says a helluva lot about YOU, not about covid! My adult son is working at a camp all summer long, not only did nobody die at the camp, nobody was even sick, not truly, other than your normal summer issues.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Typical narcissist DCUM post by OP. Your snowflakes will be just fine. Be glad you’re not trying to flee Afghanistan.

You can be thankful to not have to flee Afghanistan, or be living in Yemen, or a trailer in West Virginia, and at the same time be sad that Covid has made life for your kids less enjoyable than it would have been otherwise.

Made your kids less enjoyable? What are they? Netflix show for you to enjoy? Jesus Christ! You have kids to take care of, to educate, enjoy your kids, sure, on occasion? How privileged! Most parents barely see their kids due to working 2 jobs, they don't go around thinking how they are ENJOYING their kids less.