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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew this was coming and I'm still SO ANGRY. The work from school and the connections to the other kids is what is keeping my kid in a routine and alleviating anxiety. This just leaves us all to fend for ourselves and is totally abandoning the kids. [/quote]
Repeat after me: as parents we are 100% responsible for our children 100% of the time. [/quote]

Shut up. Seriously. Of course we are 100% responsible for them. No one is saying that we, as parents, aren't responsible for them. But this isn't 1920. We don't have a full-time stay at home parent who can just spend 100% of their time on childcare and ignore the responsibilities we have to our employers/employees/customers/clients/patients. We don't have a family safety net, because we all scattered away from our home towns. But we still have to do our jobs, too.

Most of us are currently juggling two full time working parents with multiple kids at home. I have a 9 year old and a newly 3 year old. My employer has been understanding, but as this goes on, and becomes a new normal, the expectation will be that I can do my job as well as if I was in my office. There will have to be an answer to "what do we do with our kids" if stay at home continues for weeks and months without school/camp/childcare, because the reality is that most families rely on it in order to be functional workers. [/quote]

See don't you get your anger is miss placed. Our country doesn't value families and health over money. If employers offered paid family leave, more sick time, part-time hours with professional pay. If we had national health care and more social supports all of this would be less.  And of families could live with less stuff, have affordable housing we wouldn't all have to work 40+ hours a week.
Oh, funded schools so we could have smaller class size of 10-15 kids per class that would help too.

I get you are angery but to think this is going to change dramaticly or go back to normal in the next few months is setting your sled up to be more angery.

Sign up for some online learning programs or tutors or babysitter. If you have the money getsome out door toys for your patio or yard. Figure out how to make it work if nothing changes for the next year or more. 
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