You do you. From my POV, it's finally over. |
NP. The PP did not say that their kids experienced the death of a parent. She said one of the the parents was "not extremely low risk due to health issues", so it sounds like she was talking about the fear of a parent dying. Here is a great article by a mother whose spouse actually did die (not from Covid) about parents' responsibility of not letting fear overshadow the lives of their children: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/protect-kids-faulty-risk-assessments-covid-resilience/621353/ “'Kids are resilient' has been a refrain of the pandemic, used to justify the removal of regular school, birthday parties, and talking with friends at lunch. But it’s not a kid’s job to be resilient. It’s a parent’s job to be resilient for them, to spare them from our fears and worries. The longer we abdicate, the more damage we will do." |
They had a parent die. And, have a high risk parent. An Illness for me lasts weeks. You can post all the articles you want to hide behind why you stopped caring but some of us live in the real world. You worry about your kids and I’ll worry about mine. |
It’s far from over. |
For you I suppose. For me, it's been over for quite a while, and it's great seeing other parts of society (schools, planes, etc.) getting on board with that. |
We all live in the real world, even if our circumstances differ widely. If you are a widowed single-parent who is truly at high risk from dying of Covid, you are obviously in a particularly difficult situation and need to take special precautions. That doesn't give you the right to morally shame others who don't share your exceptional situation for living life without fear and returning to normalcy at this point. They are doing the right thing for their families. They don't need to "hide" behind anything, and the article posted above gives some excellent advice that is much needed by a large number of parents whose circumstances are less tragic than yours perhaps are, but who are still burdening their children with unnecessary fear. |
So you don't are at all if large numbers of people become sick at the same time? |
NP. Define "sick". Relatively few people are getting hospitalized these days. |
100% this. Parents can die any time. Car crash, heart attack, stroke, etc. why are earth are you instilling this kind of anxiety in your kids? |
Utterly tone deaf. |
+1 We need a middle ground and more awareness of how disruptive even minor surges can be to "normal" life. |
Why are you contributing to the anxiety? |
It will never be over for you. |
NP Not even close to tone deaf. |
She's right. The best thing we can do for our kids is to live life and to teach them, by example, to live life. Whatever our physical and mental health issues (DH and I have them, as do our kids). |