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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Covid sucks for all of us, but I'm really struggling with what it is taking away from kids.  My kids have given up more than a year of early elementary school and all of the learning and socialization and guided activities and play.  Their parents have been super stressed out having them home while working full-time to make ends meet, and it has changed our relationship.  We have good times together, but a lot of the time we are just maxed out and don't parent well.  They have to deal with so much worry about illness.  One parent got asymptomatic covid and they worried the parent was going to die... but they also covered their mouths and held their breath when they were safely inside and saw the parent outside the back door (masked) coming up to get food left outside for them during a 10-day isolation.  They have had to miss camp due to covid exposure.  Through all of this, they have lost their sense of safety and a carefree childhood.  And this is just the kids who haven't lost a loved one.

I'm really sad and scared because we don't know when this is going to be over.  I was relieved when thought this school year might be semi-normal for them, but now we have delta.  I don't know how to make this better for my kids when I'm overtaxed from work + parenting (quarantine) and burned out physically and emotionally from the last year plus.  How do you work through these emotions and make the best of the situation?[/quote]

Good God almighty, what a bunch of claptrap!  Children only lost what their idiot parents, like you,  keep telling them they have lost.  Life is not perfect would you rather that they be dead?  Shut up and stop whining and be bloody thankful they are alive and healthy instead of dead![/quote]

My God, you are ignorant.[/quote]

+1 (wow).  It's not true that my children only lost what I have told them they have lost.  Objectively inaccurate.  They missed spring 2020 of school.  There was minimal virtual at their school so they lost hours and hours of interaction and instruction with their beloved teachers and friends that spring. They did not see most of their extended family for more than a year.  My 3-year-old had a hard time maintaining attention on a screen to have a relationship with anyone virtually.  That is a loss for my children to have limited relationships with our family who lives far away, who we otherwise would have seen multiple times over the year.  They didn't get to go out and do trick-or-treating for Halloween.  We had all of our holidays alone because we were trying to do our part and keep everyone safe, which is what public health officials told us to do.

The fact that other people are suffering more does not mean children like mine are not also missing out.  We know we are fortunate to live in the US and have basics like a comfortable home and not in a war zone and we keep that perspective in mind all the time, but my kids and most others have suffered because of the pandemic.  They have cried very real tears that they missed their friends, or when they couldn't do something we were able to do pre-covid because it wasn't safe anymore.  Often those choices were not my choices as the parent, but for example they couldn't go to camp because they had to quarantine from a covid exposure.  That sucks and it was a real loss.  They're kids - it's not right to say, "well little Larlo, tough shit. Be happy you're not dead!"  Kids have feelings and we should have compassion for what they are going through.

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Pure male bovine excrement![/quote]

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