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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a mom of older kids, I'm confused why everyone things the pandemic told them something new. Yes the pandemic sucked but we weren't supported before the pandemic either. [/quote]

Yes, thank you, I was coming to post this. All of these things were issues before the pandemic and they are issues after.

I'm not sure why everyone blames the pandemic for everything that's wrong with life. [/quote]

Is "everyone" blaming the pandemic for "everything" that is wrong with life? Is that something people are doing in this thread? Examples please.[/quote]

Btw, this is OP and I'm not really even blaming the pandemic for anything. It's more like, during the height of Covid, I fell into a bit of a funk, and I am currently frustrated because although tine has passed and the pandemic is over, I'm still in the funk.

It's frustrating. I could also have written "Anyone else lose their groove when their kid was a toddler and still not have it back by the time they started elementary?" Sounds like people would relate to that as well. But I also think there was something particularly paralyzing about Covid that is still impacting me, so I framed it that way.

The incessant criticism on this thread is honestly weird. We get it, you are over Covid. Maybe this thread isn't for you then.[/quote]

You’re not getting what people are saying. Your complaints, many valid, are about being a parent of young kids. Period. What you are “not over” is being a parent of young kids. You are blaming your problem on COVID when they’re really just about the difficulty of being a parent of young kids. Talk about that, not COVID.

Being a mom in America sucks in many ways, regardless of COVID [/quote]

YOU aren't getting it.  Parenting during COVID makes parenting harder now.  There are small ways- my kid didn't have a birthday party until she was 4.  The first time we took her to a restaurant at like 2 years old we forgot to ask for a high chair.  We are STILL clawing together a village after the isolation.  I don't know about normal things like the best toys, getting a bike, etc. Because we were isolated for two years.

The sheer number of hours spent entertaining and watching DD at home with NO reprieve other than my job- what a break.  No parties, no parks, no playdates, no playgrounds, no visits, no trips, nothing for two years.  Part of that was the fact DD was 11 months when it started and couldn't even walk, part of that was closures, part of that was not wanting to risk exposure or getting COVID to miss daycare, part of that was the insane heightened illness policy at daycare (at best she was in 2 weeks a month), part of that was our choice out of a bunch of awful choices.

Above all, the fact I only have one because of the pandemic.

I'm sure you will dismiss all of that.  But that says more about you then it does me.

We will always be COVID parents.  Can't unring that bell fully.  We've tried.[/quote]

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