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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I have 3 kids with a big gap and can tell you parenting young kids during COVID was an entirely new form of stress and lack of support. Like we were all juggling a lot of balls before but then with COVID we were juggling during a hurricane. So stop telling other moms it’s always been this way when it hasn’t.

In the long term COVID has made some things easier (more workplace flexibility/remote options for instance), and there’s been expanded parental leave in recent years. But no, raising young kids circa the early 2010s vs. early 2020s was a different experience. [/quote]

Still, I would never have allowed it to dictate how many children I had. [/quote]

I agree many people are saying parenting is difficult and has many challenges. What OP is feeling is common and has nothing to do with Covid.

If this was your greatest hardship in life, to have your one child home with you for a year while you worked from home, you should feel lucky.

I was traumatized by not being able to visit my father in the hospital, having no idea what was going on, getting a call saying he fell and broke his arm while at the rehab center that we were not able to visit. I am very grateful my dad is still alive. My dad spent much of Covid being left alone in a bed with horrible care in soiled diapers. Others had loved ones die without being able to say good bye.

OP had one kid. I had to juggle 3. I had to keep my child away from the other two while they were in virtual school while also helping the kids in virtual school.

We knew lots of people who had Covid babies. I know people who suffered from infertility. [b]Lots of people from my child’s preschool class had a sibling born between 2020 and 2023. [/quote][/b]

Great.  So this means anyone with a different experience is a loser right?

And you already had your family complete with school-aged kids, so your experience isn't relevant to OP's post nor your condescension warranted.

Also very presumptuous to assume this was the only hardship in anyone's life over three years.  It certainly wasn't for me (not OP).[/quote]

All I’m saying is that everyone had different struggles during Covid. Everyone also had different levels of comfort with Covid.

I felt comfortable being outside away from people. After the first few months, we socialized with others outside. My kids attended outdoor camps in summer 2020. We went to the beach.

If you isolated yourself for 1-2 years, that was your choice.[/quote]

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