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I can't help but assume all the people who're in a panic about how kids will lose the ability to socialize and who equate lockdowns with "child abuse" just really, really don't want to be around their kids more often than usual for a while. Like, they must *really* hate it.Permalink On twitter.com
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I mean, I get that it's exhausting: my wife and I are with our son full-time, both worked for part of the pandemic, and I'm still working. It's exhausting. But it's not "child abuse." He'd stressed by it, but less stressed than daycare made him. He's happy.Permalink On twitter.com
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(His biggest complaint is, in fact, that I have to go into the home office and work. "I wish papa could miss work so we can play all day!") Meanwhile, we've gotten to know him better, come to understand things we didn't before, and feel closer to him than we did before.Permalink On twitter.com
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Maybe these folks should try to learn to hate their time with your kids less, embrace that the current normal is temporary and there are good reasons to stay home, and make the best of it as much as they can? (Even on the rough days.)Permalink On twitter.com
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I get it that it's not easy. That badly implemented school transitions online has made life difficult/complicated for many parents, and Zoom classes suck, and kids and grandparents miss each other. But calling it "child abuse" is so insanely disingenuous as to beggar belief.Permalink On twitter.com
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A parent's job is to protect your kid from danger as much as possible. One's ability will vary, unfortunately, as we live in ridiculously unequal societies. But devouring internet garbage and deciding it's all a conspiracy is a dereliction of that duty.Permalink On twitter.com
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On protection: we know very little about this illness. It *could* have long term effects beyond the ones we already know some people suffer. It might not. But ranting about how keeping your kids home for a year or 18 months is "child abuse" is insane given the unknowns.On twitter.com
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And all the stuff about kids "needing" to socialize with their peers: you know, for most of human history, we did not corral children away with exact peers day after day for their parents' convenience. Kids spent most of their time with... one or both parents or adult relatives.Permalink On twitter.com
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None of this is to discount that lockdowns do have their own problems, like increases in child abuse, spousal abuse, economic problems, heightened divorce rate, and so on. But these folks didn't care about such issues in 2019, so... I'm pretty sure they still don't—not *really*.Permalink On twitter.com
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Two massive ironies: a) 200 years ago, most of the "kids need school!" people would have felt the opposite, and screamed it just as loudly. b) 200 years ago, they've have known pandemics were real, deadly, and not something to mess around with.Permalink On twitter.com