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[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]

I think if you didn't have the experience during that first year of taking care of a child under age 4 or 5 (or multiple kids under that age) while also trying to manage your own job, and general stress over the pandemic itself, you might not get it. Like yes, we've never had good support for families in this country. But when your kids were small, could you take them to a playground? Because playgrounds near me were closed for 4 months after Covid started. Could you pay a daycare to take care of your kid while you worked? Because our daycare closed during Covid and it took us months to get a spot in another one and when we did, their hours were 10am to 3:30pm due to staffing and social distancing requirements.

You didn't have kids who relied on you for 100% of everything during Covid. That's why you're confused. You probably had to deal with virtual schooling and being stir crazy, I'm sure it wasn't easy. But you weren't trying to hold down a job while figuring out how to care for a 2 or 3 year old 24/7 with no support at all even support you could pay for. It's a totally different thing.

There's not being supported generally and then there's what happened during Covid. [/quote]

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