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[quote=Anonymous]I posted upthread in agreement but was discussing this with my husband tonight after a just horrendous day with our 3 year old, and I really agree with PPs that part of this is just that it's so cold and miserable outside and not having anywhere to take kids indoors is so, so hard. It's only a month or two in DC that we have weather like this, but this year it really feels impossible without outlets like the library or a bookstore children's section or a museum or even just sitting in a coffee shop for a bit with a pastry. I'm so sick of the inside of my apartment. I'm trying to convince myself tonight that if we can get through the next six weeks, it will start to look up. The weather will start to get warmer, hopefully vaccine roll-out will be much further along, and with warmer weather Covid numbers should start to drop again (it's already started to happen, even with the newer strains). Not saying everything will be better by mid-March, but I think this pit of despair might be more of a ditch of tolerable frustration at least. It feels bleak now. Personally, I'm going to take the advice of a few PPs and give myself a break tomorrow. We're going to relax screen time rules for the day, look for things we actually enjoy doing, and just be as gentle as possible with ourselves. It's good to see the comments on this thread and to know that I'm not the only one struggling, that it's actually really normal to struggle during a pandemic while trying to raise a young child. I think a lot of people right now are living in denial, and that's what's causing so many to act as though everything is fine and no one has a right to complain. But I think a couple decades from now people will look at this time and think "Wow, that must have been so tough -- those folks must have had a lot of grit to get through that."[/quote]
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