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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how 2020 has exposed parents.  :lol:

Its all hugs and rainbows and 'children fill a void' until you actually have to take care of and watch them 24/7, 7 days a week.

Now its 'I'm going to be hospitalized if you don't get them out of here'.

And you wonder why the child-free and single are enjoying the pandemic so much?[/quote]

Yes, you are correct that 2020 and a global pandemic, economic crisis, and political shitshow has, indeed, exposed parents.

100% agree.

Enjoy getting Covid from socializing with all your fellow single, child-free friends while the world burns. Sounds awesome.[/quote]

Hey we're all dealing with the pandemic, economic crisis, and political shitshow. I don't know anyone freaking out like the parents are and have been since week one.

The crazy rants on Twitter in week three of March that schools MUST RE-OPEN were amazing to see. Coast-to-coast, parents were screaming for schools and it hadn't even been 10 days at home.

Now its what...month six or so? Seems they're just zombies running on fumes or actively emotionally abusing their kids. The amount of times I've seen parents on DCUM saying they screamed or slammed the door on their toddler during the pandemic recently doesn't bode well for a winter indoors.[/quote]

Have you ever stopped to wonder WHY it's the parents who are "freaking out" more than anyone else?  It's because we are now expected to do our jobs just as well as before, with just as much focus and intelligence, but now we have our children at home full time as well.  So many parents have had to quit their jobs.  Mostly women.  So now those households are operating at 50% of their income.  And the ones who didn't choose that route are- again- trying to work full time while also watching children full time.  And you think parents are freaking out because they don't like their children?  Screaming for schools because... they don't like their children?  As opposed to, hey, they LOVE their children and want them to receive an education as opposed to watch TV all day while their parents grind out a full work day from the living room.  [/quote]

Its the SAHPs complaining just as much as the WOHPs though. So I'm not sure you can say its 'because of our jobs'. [/quote]

I haven't heard a single SAHM complain about schools being closed except to , understandably, complain that their kids aren't getting a solid education because 6 year olds don't learn crap via Zoom for 5 hours a day.  Or, complain that their kids are acting out and misbehaving due to the stress of the pandemic and they wish their kids lives could gain some semblance of normalcy.  Like when all the restaurants and bars and stores were closed, and amazon wasn't shipping non essentials... remember how high the stress level was for adults?  People were hoarding toilet paper like it was the apocolypse.  But these are little kids, with even fewer emotional and intellectual resources at their disposal.  So yes, some parents regardless of SAH or WOH are begging schools to open (like restaurants, malls, bars, gyms, and literally everything else an adult could want to participate in has) so their kids can start to see their lives return to normal.  Like pretty much all adults have. [/quote]

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