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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moms seem to be the easiest target for kids to take out all their fears and frustrations. I am sorry this is happening to you, OP, and hope your daughter works through her COVID trauma soon. It was hard on everyone and it’s not fair that she is using you as the target for all of her feelings.[/quote]
+1 It was easier for me to lash out at my mom (sometimes for good reasons) than my dad. Part of it is that mothers do most of the care giving and setting boundaries, while the dads get to play the good guy by staying silent.

The other part is that dads are just scarier. I know DD has more fear of her dad, not that he would ever hit her.  He is just more intimidating.  I felt the exact same way as a teen. My dad *never* hit me. My mother did, yet I still lashed out at my mother more than my father even though I knew she would hit me (yes I was abused as a kid).

OP did the right thing, even as I hated the schools closing.   IMO, people who did not have elderly or immuno-compromised family members should've been able to go to school the following school year, but if you did have vulnerable people in the house, it made total sense to keep your kids out.[/quote]

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