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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly.  My parents were born during the Great Depression. My mother's family lost their home. They had to ask their church for food. My mother received supplemental food at school because she was so thin the school was pretty certain she was starving.  My mother still talks of the shame of "accepting relief" and she is nearly 90 now.

My father and his family of 5 lived in a one-bedroom apartment their entire lives until he left to serve in  the Army in the Korean Conflict (war).  His mother had emigrated from Ireland and his father was raised in an orphanage because his parents died in the influenza pandemic in 1918. His father refused til the day he died to ever talk about life in the orphanage.

These circumstances were not relieved until the economic opportunities of WW2 came about.

*We were raised middle class and we were raised to respect these circumstances*.  In other words, *Put things in perspective.*  Having to stay home -- hey! you have a home! -- with your parents  is actually a privilege. That  means you have food on the table -- or are you standing in line at the food bank?

This.is.not.hardship. [/quote]

Yep, exactly. I hear so much complaining from other parents and it’s like, get some perspective. If you have a roof over your head, food, clean water, and no one in your family has been affected by covid you should be grateful. Your children are fine. [/quote]

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