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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think the pandemic really hurt my kids. I was so worried about their mental health I became a lot less strict and started doing much more for them. Despite being great students, they are not as independent as they should be, and rely on me WAY too much. It's stressful and not something I'd like to continue, but the stakes feel so high.[/quote]

I think you can acknowledge that the pandemic hurt kids, and that it did contribute to some kids  experiencing the kind of trauma that leads to higher ACE scores, while still acknowledging that the pandemic, if not combined with other crises, was not in itself on the same level of trauma as the kinds of things that the ACE score measures.

To be clear, the ACE score asks questions like whether you saw your father threaten your mother with a gun, or whether you experienced sexual abuse, or whether you experienced extended periods of time without food.  Lockdown may have made those events more common for some kids, but lockdown itself was not en par with those experiences.  [/quote]

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