When does it get easier for parents?
If you're keeping up, masks will no longer be required in schools as of March 7, but kids will still to wear them on the bus, another of the myriad quirks of life with COVID today.Hello Valentines,
I find myself with a lot of colleagues right now who have little kids at home. And since I know some of the readers here may not be first-time parents, I think it’s important for us to acknowledge something: These parents are struggling. What’s that, you say you struggled too? Maybe it was years ago as a young Mom marooned at home with babies while your husband went out to work, maybe your spouse was deployed in the aughts, or maybe you spent the ‘90s dropping the kids off at full-time daycare every day. Maybe you were a single parent and never had a partner to at least try to split the work with.
None of that compares with what parents have gone through in the last two years. The lack of vaccines for the youngest, the day care struggles, the constant fear of illness, or even death. And oh yeah, holding down a job and avoiding COVID. The mask issue, maybe because it’s a jarring thing to see your sweet baby’s face covered, became a political flash point. But it wasn’t the kids who made it political. It hasn’t been them showing up to yell at school boards, or make dumb Gestapo references to public health measures, or Tweeting their discontent.
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