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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A note to young moms from an older mom:

Listen guys I know you are under a lot of pressure to do everything just right.  Proper eating habits, exercise, little to no screen time but these are extraordinary times. Don't kill yourself trying to keep everything perfect in the time of the pandemic. All the pinterest moms, DCUM moms and blog moms will make you feel like you are failing if you aren't constructing a model of the coronavirus out of toothpicks and a golf ball with your second grader. You are not. You need to consider the long game. In the total scheme of things this is but a blip. Take them outside and fool around when you can. Let them watch hours of tv and eat some junk food.

Someday before you know it they will be 35 years old like you are and they will talk of the "Great pandemic of 2020" with their kids. Do you want them to say: "Yeah I kept on pace with my online learning and didn't skip a beat, my mom was obsessive": OR would you rather they say: "It was crazy, we didn't have school for like 3 weeks, I ate nothing but chicken fingers and gummy bears, played possibly 60 hours of Minecraft and tried to capture a raccoon with my friends. It was the best!"

I'm not saying providing structure and order isn't important but you can give yourself a break. There are no awards for doing the pandemic 'better' than some other mom. Teach your kids to roll with the punches and live in the now and that sometimes, in extraordinary times, rules can and should be broken. [/quote]

Great post![/quote]

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