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[quote=Anonymous]I get it OP.  Whenever I start to think about the things my kids lost and won't get back because of the pandemic, I get very sad.  And some of it is very frivolous, so it feels silly to talk to others about them, but they still make me sad.

-- My second grader losing out on a year of social connections last year.  I feel like all the families in his grade are strangers, whereas I know a lot of families in my older kids year.  
-- My 6th grader basically transitioned from kid to teen during the pandemic.  She went from kid who was on no screens (and just played in person with friends) before to kid who is on a lot because she had no other way to connect with her friends.  I felt like we lost a year of childhood.  Now that they are in the routine of connecting via chat, it's hard to get them to connect other ways.
-- My 6th grader losing out on performance opportunities in the Nutcracker, which she really wanted to do.  She's basically too tall now.  This is something's that's really frivolous, yet it still makes me sad.

It's ok to mourn what we lost and what we won't get back.  [/quote]

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