Anonymous wrote:Yes. My three-year-old gets very bummed out after them.

My 4yo is like this. We've done zoom calls with her daycare friends and FaceTime with my parents (who she is used to seeing on a weekly basis). She's cried several times immediately after, because it makes her sad. We are limiting them to just family for now, and only once a week or so.

I lied to some of my favorite people yesterday that I was on a bike ride and couldn't make it.

We had just done one 7 days prior and I had nothing new to say and just wasn't up for it.

I don’t like video chatting, or phones unless for work. Just text me!

My 4 yo hates the video interfaces. Can’t stick to her zoom class and won’t even Skype with her grandparents. It’s not for everyone.

Agreed. Especially where child participation is expected. My kids don't interact well through the video chat interface.

Yes. My three-year-old gets very bummed out after them.

My daughter is preschool has set up so many zoom chats like three or four day I'm not even exaggerating. My daughter is completely over it and doesn't want to participate at all.

Agreed. Novel at first. Now a hassle.

Thank you for saying this! I thought I was the only one. Managing work from home plus kids is about all I can handle. I am busier than I've ever been... definitely in a different stage of my life than those family and friends who are "bored". This whole situation is crazy, but one thing it has not been for me is boring. Managing additional obligations such as scheduled zoom calls is making me crazy. Plus, as someone else stated here, I think, the kids lose interest in the call after about 2 minutes and then I'm trying to manage them and carry a video chat? No thanks.

I am. We spent an hour on zoom Easter brunch with my family and then a another 30 mins with MIL. And my overly needy mother still FaceTimes me this evening. I’ve already talked to you today. Nothing has changed in 6 hours. I am done.

We are so much busier than before, trying to manage 2 adults working from home full time with the needs of a 3 year old and a puppy. As I told my parents, somebody always needs something. I have been trying to check in with them periodically, and I've been doing grocery shopping for them when I do ours, but the idea that we have enough time to be bored is crazy. I get that retired people and super social people are lonely and isolated, and so are we to a degree, but we just have less time to think about it.

Anonymous wrote:We don’t do them. I have young kids and they are my priority. Our social life before this consisted of whole-family get-togethers, not girls/guys night outs where they can complain about their spouses and kids. We do FT as a family about 2x/week and that’s it. I communicate via text a lot with friends and family.

Yeah, no one wants to zoom with you, smuggie mcsmug, so don’t worry about having to turn down invitations.

I never used to turn my phone off. Now I turn it off every day by 5pm, just to avoid the constant ringing.