To think language is important and traumatised / devastated / ruined are hyperbole

[GeraldtheGorilla]

Yes, it’s okay to be deeply disappointed when you or your children are missing out on important events, holidays and milestones. We’re all having to make adjustments and life has changed.

But let’s not overdo i?

The reason I clicked on the thread title, in the first place, was because I thought to myself "oh, yes lasagna really is very important. Glad Someone has started a thread in appreciation of it"

That was the first thing I noticed when I joined Mumsnet years ago.

Everyone seemed 'horrified', 'terrified' and 'devestated'

MILs never asked to see school photos, they 'demanded'.

And drunk husbands never came in late, they 'waltzed' through the door

Nothing seems to have changed.

Oh and no-one ever sat there crying about anything

They were always 'weeping'?

Which makes me think of an infected scab

I sense a midnight lasagne online flash mob.

Of course yanbu, OP. The hyper-dramatic handwringing and adjectives that suggest the end of days being thrown about are really unhelpful.

I have already tried to calm down devastated parents on other threads who think their 3 year olds will be harmed forever by not being able to go to nursery to socialise. The fact that nurseries barely existed 60 years ago and dc managed ok is forgotten. That’s what we have to do: manage. Stay positive for the children.