I'm just curious! My DD4 was 1-2 during the main bit of covid and doesn't remember anything. But she's old enough now to chat about things that happened in the past. I've said to her in conversation before things like we didn't see anyone for your 2nd birthday and we just stayed at home. And like, that's a really special picture of you with Nanny, she hadn't seen you in months. And we've been watching Andy's Dino Toybox on iPlayer and I've said didn't Andy do a good job making this programme all by himself in his house? But I haven't actually explained anything to her yet! Has anyone else reached that point yet and how did you explain it?
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Anyone explained lockdown to younger kids yet?
willywallaby · 04/06/2023 13:56
CornishGem1975 · 04/06/2023 14:07
My DS was a lockdown baby, I have no desire to ever talk about it again. It's in the past.
willywallaby · 04/06/2023 14:06
Yeah I suppose nobody has a kid yet who doesn't remember it but is also old enough to be curious enough to ask detailed questions or find it really outlandish when you explain! That's what I was wondering really.
Whinge · 04/06/2023 14:14
I think it's really odd you keep trying to steer the coversation towards Lockdown. She will learn about it at some point, but that could be years away, right now she's 4 and doesn't need the constant reminders about something she has no memory of.
MrsBennetsPoorNerves · 04/06/2023 13:58
Not sure what you would need to explain tbh.
If you need to say anything at all, surely you would just say something along the lines of "there was a nasty bug going round when you were very little so we couldn't see people much, luckily everything is back to normal now."
willywallaby · 04/06/2023 14:23
Not really? It just comes up when we look at old pictures and stuff. Obviously I don't steer the conversation towards lockdown because I've never actually mentioned or explained lockdown to her before. There's just a lot of evidence of it around still.
And no I don't have any trauma. I'm literally just curious about what it would be like to explain lockdown to someone who has no concept of it and the only people around in that category are children right now.
willywallaby · 04/06/2023 14:23
Not really? It just comes up when we look at old pictures and stuff. Obviously I don't steer the conversation towards lockdown because I've never actually mentioned or explained lockdown to her before. There's just a lot of evidence of it around still.
And no I don't have any trauma. I'm literally just curious about what it would be like to explain lockdown to someone who has no concept of it and the only people around in that category are children right now.
Whinge · 04/06/2023 14:43
Not really? It just comes up when we look at old pictures and stuff. Obviously I don't steer the conversation towards lockdown because I've never actually mentioned or explained lockdown to her before.
You're trying to steer the coversation towards lockdown, and you don't even realise you're doing it. There's no need to mention it at all, and yet you seem to being going out of your way to try and get her to ask about it.
we didn't see anyone for your 2nd birthday and we just stayed at home.
No need to mention it in this way. You could say your second birthday was special, you got XYZ presents, and you ate the biggest piece of cake.
And like, that's a really special picture of you with Nanny, she hadn't seen you in months.
She doesn't remember she hadn't seen her Nanny for months, why not just say it's a lovely picture, I love the outfit you're wearing, and Nanny has a lovely smile
And we've been watching Andy's Dino Toybox on iPlayer and I've said didn't Andy do a good job making this programme all by himself in his house?
Again there's no need to mention him making it home, she doesn't need to know that and I suspect 99% of those watching won't know that. Why not talk about the different dinosaurs and various facts about them?
There's just a lot of evidence of it around still.
What evidence?
mynameiscalypso · 04/06/2023 14:50
I think it's a valid question. If I'd been a small child when there was a lockdown, I'm sure I'd have loads of questions for my parents about it because it was such a hugely significant global event and, if nothing else, it's interesting to know you lived through history. Admittedly, for me it is quite boring history because when DS (4) asks, I'll have to tell him that my days mainly involved watching Tiger King and online shopping but I absolutely expect children to be interested in due course in the same way that I, for example, asked my parents a lot of questions about NI being a child of the 80s.
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NowZeusHasLainWithLeda · 04/06/2023 14:43
How does it come up in "old" pictures unless you bring it up?
You have to compare it to say, parents sitting a 4 year old down in New York in 2005 and saying, now you were only a baby and can't remember any of it but this really bad thing happened.
She'll learn about it in time.
willywallaby · 04/06/2023 14:23
Not really? It just comes up when we look at old pictures and stuff. Obviously I don't steer the conversation towards lockdown because I've never actually mentioned or explained lockdown to her before. There's just a lot of evidence of it around still.
And no I don't have any trauma. I'm literally just curious about what it would be like to explain lockdown to someone who has no concept of it and the only people around in that category are children right now.
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