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[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]

Mmm, pretty sure my young school-aged kids could attend school before the pandemic.  Suddenly, school became not only optional, but something no decent parent had a right to expect.  As PPs have said, you weren't dealing with young kids during the pandemic - just as I don't know what it was like to parent teens during that time period, you don't know what it was like to parent toddlers or preschoolers or kindergartners.
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They were in elementary. But I just find this whole younger generation of parents SO effing whiny. Everything is unfair and harder for them than everyone else. Blah blah blah. Deal with it.[/quote]

NP. If it helps, I'm old. Had my kids in my 40s and they were 4 and 7 when the pandemic hit. Agree with the PPs, it's one thing not to have family support, which we've never had, but it's quite another when all the societal supports (e.g,. playgrounds, daycares, schools, neighbors, etc.) disappear as well. Trying to work while parenting young children was one of the hardest times of my life (and I've had some really hard times! including multiple emergency surgeries). I immediately gained -- and have kept --  50 lbs on my already overweight body. As the subject line says, I have not gotten my groove back. [/quote]

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