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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand why the kids are behind academically. But why behaviorally? (Barring a special need) Did their parents not have any behavior expectations for a year and a half?[/quote]
Lots of anxiety and trauma.  It's been a really hard year. [b] I know several 8 yos who have melted down this year about other kids not wearing masks or who panicked being in a crowded situation.  [/b]

Behavior expectations in a group setting are also entirely different than at home.  [/quote]

This sounds like kids whose parents way overdid the lockdown thing and kept their kids isolated indoors for their supposed own good. It was possible to be cautious and sensible without going to extremes. Poor kids.[/quote]

NP. We let my now kindergartener play with her local cousins and did a pod with her best friend and friend's sister. By summer we let her play outdoors with neighbor kids and on the playground. We started out about in the middle in terms of cautiousness, and ended up looser than most. She still developed anxiety and is struggling this year with re-learning how to handle group social situations. In class she's great, but she's having lunchtime and playground social struggles that are very unlike her. Nothing terrible, but she definitely lost some socioemotional skills from being around the same few kids day in and day out. I know there are many kids that were home with parents or a nanny until kindergarten, but I SEE how the pandemic changed her and how her head goes to much darker places when she's stressed than it used to. We adjusted and took more risks when we saw the behavior developing, but she needed to be in school and her school was closed. [/quote]

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