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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s a different take: I think we need to look at the parents.

My sister-in-law and close friend both had babies during Covid. Before Covid, I think parents realized pretty fast parenting alone was miserable and made mom friends. My SIL and friend didn’t. They were just alone.

Babies couldn’t have heard the same kind of pre-pandemic interaction. They didn’t do tummy time next to each other while their moms laughed.

We talk about the mommy wars? One way of noticing a child was delayed was by seeing other kids reach their milestones. [b]My friend’s baby was eight months old before she texted me asking when babies started using sippy cups or straws.[/b] Then she had no idea how to get her baby to use a straw.

Mommies know how to make babies perfectly comfortable. As toddlers these babies didn’t take to other kids the way pre-Covid babies did. It was uncomfortable. One of the kids doesn’t get any screen time. But he would rather have Mommy read him a story than play blocks with a kid who might knock it down.

I think mom social behavior led to the kids’ delayed development.

I believe in science and isolation. I think these moms should have bubbled with other moms.[/quote]

Uh. This isn’t the superiority you think it is. EBF babies don't take sippy cups at eight months and lots of COVID-era mothers EBF’d for antibody protection. This is a weird weird mother shaming post and I hope your “SIL” and “friend” distance themselves from your expertise…[/quote]

Your argument would be better if the baby had been EBF. Formula fed baby.[/quote]

DP. Even for a formula fed baby, this story doesn't matter. Sippy cups are not essential for development. Some people skip them altogether and do open cups even from a very young age because they think sippy cups actually delay certain motor skills including around swallowing. An 8 month old not using sippy cups is a non-story. Now if the anecdote was about an actually important developmental stage for motor skills or speech development, and parents not realizing kids were behind due to lack of peers, that would be compelling. But if your best example is sippy cups, who cares.

It wouldn't explain why a 2nd grader is lagging behind in reading.[/quote]

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