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[quote=Anonymous]These articles get under my skin.  My kids, who are teens, are miserable.  They miss their friends, their sports teams, their independence, their special events they were looking forward to (concerts, camps, school events).  It's a lot of disappointment. They also have a clear understanding of what's going on in the world, the health risks, the changes, and it scares them.

It's one thing to be a baby to 10 years old and be super excited for no school, be home with lots of homemade food and have parents not too stressed about money who can play board games, dress up, bike ride, hold hands, cuddle and watch Netflix from dawn to dusk. All parents attention all the time.  Who wouldn't love that.

Then it's another for adolescents who are normally supposed to be going through the stages of individualization, independence and finding peer groups, being held inside 24/7 under their parents rules, even if it's for their own good and health. They have little to no interaction in person with their peers.  They aren't interested in doing puzzles or reading books with their parents, and that doesn't make them bad kids or abnormal.  There are other articles about how older kids are expressing anger and rage.  Then add into that all the unknown, all the cancellations and the consent corona this and that, it's not all unicorn hunting for them.

For us with older kids, it's been very hard.[/quote]

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