Doing this to a child is wrong

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BBC report : His said his 14-year-old daughter had not left her bedroom for four days, with meals being left outside her door, until the family learned the result was void on Thursday

This is so wrong to do to a child

I can't get passed the idea that all 14 year olds have parents in their 40's with no health issues - brilliantly funny

I'm 50 and my youngest is 12 - I've had covid so had to isolate for 10 days - with my youngest crying because she wanted to hug me - but that is life

and no I didn't die but I have been off work since Oct half term suffering from the effects of Covid - do not underestimate it - 'not dying' doesn;t mean you don;t suffer

and yes my teens would happily stay in their room if they had to - they are big enough to understand the pandemic

I don’t believe confining a 14 year old to their room for days at a time without exercise

Where does the report say she couldn't exercise?

@flaviaritt

Apparently they just need to be told “It wasn’t your fault” and they’ll be fine 😂😂

Apparently it’s fine to lock your kids in their bedrooms for days on the off-chance that they’re going to kill everyone they know when they have a bad cold/flu/no actual illness at all. Who knew?

No-one has said locking a child in is fine. But surely you've heard of asymptomatic passing on of infection?

Where does the report say she couldn't exercise?

True. I’m sure she had a little gym set up up there.

No-one has said locking a child in is fine.

😂

But surely you've heard of asymptomatic passing on of infection?

Naturally.

True. I’m sure she had a little gym set up up there.

How could she go to the gym anywhere else if she had to isolate due to Covid?

But what if.
What if it isn't even real child. What if it's a dog. And they all think it's a child because they all lost it after reading threads like this on MN.
"What's that dear?"
"Bark bark"
"Ah you fancy some chicken soup? It will be right up hahahhahahahahahaha eye twitch"

@flaviaritt

You've not answered the question -why are you assuming any coercion?

I am not answering that because it is nonsense.

Ah, excellent. At last you concede that it is nonsense to assume coercion. So what on earth is the point of continually repeating a statement about the undesirability of coercing children to be isolated which no-one has disagreed with?

How could she go to the gym anywhere else if she had to isolate due to Covid?

Obviously she couldn’t. That’s why it’s even more important for her to be up and about the house. How many times is this going to happen during the pandemic? How much sedentary time is okay here?

And you still haven’t answered me. Do you think you have a right to confine your partner to his/her room, or not?

At last you concede that it is nonsense to assume coercion.

I never assumed coercion, and nor was my statement conceding that at all. Your post is double nonsense.

@flaviaritt

But that's exactly what we're all saying as well!

That isn’t the case. What is being said here is that this compulsion is justified. I don’t think that.

So who exactly has said that compulsion is justified?

So who exactly has said that compulsion is justified?

Go and read it. I’m not here to do that for you.

Flaviaritt makes whole thread about herself, relentlessly stoking fire to keep it alive.

Are you at home Flaviaritt? On the sofa? Are you using an ipad or your phone? Just trying to paint a picture here cause when you take a step back and reflect on what your 36 hour me-athons look like from your POV it's all a bit depressing.

This is cause for a referral for child abuse

Timshortforthalia

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Re the husband/partner, I have to say I'd be very sorry (and surprised) to find I'd married an adult who was at all likely to say to himself "I don't care if my children or wife get ill, the only thing that matters is that I don't get bored ".

Then I don't know anyone who would consider spending a few days in your room, with entertainment and refreshment on tap, as such a terrible hardship either.

Obviously, there are people with MH issues who couldn't cope and then you would have to make allowances.

@flaviaritt

Unless you can show me a post I've missed that says otherwise.

The thread isn’t hidden. Just go and read them. I’m not your secretary.

Why on earth should anyone else waste their time looking for non-existent evidence to justify your non-argument? If you won't produce it, the starting point has to be a presumption that it is because you know you can't.

Exercise can take place anywhere there's enough floor space. However, in the case of Cory's kids they were unwell and usually the last thing you want to do when ill is exercise. The body needs rest in order to recover.

corythatwas

Do you have the right to make him, or not? If you think you do, why? And if not, why didn’t you give your teens a bit more respect?

ILoveYou3000

And yet I have clearly asked: what if they did want to?

Why on earth should anyone else waste their time looking for non-existent evidence to justify your non-argument?

Because they want the evidence? I don’t, you see. I know what it says.

People on this thread, get a grip. It’s obscene to lock up a child like this.

So. What's everyone's plans for Saturday night looking like?

I'm going to watch Spiderman Into Spiderverse which is now on Netflix.

Blackadder.

Do you have the right to make him, or not? If you think you do, why? And if not, why didn’t you give your teens a bit more respect?

Only in the sense that I expect him to show consideration to others in other ways. I mean I don't physically force him to wipe his muddy boots when he comes into the kitchen or cover his mouth when he sneezes but I expect him to. Not doing it would be showing the rest of us disrespect.

But obviously I wouldn't have thrown myself at either him or a teen and forcibly covered their face with a handkerchief. I would have reminded them of the fact that not everybody wants their germs though.

My teens knew I respected them and considered them when I had a vomiting bug or whatever- they wouldn't have wanted to see me hanging round the kitchen and would have thought that showed a lack of consideration. So they'd have done the same to me. Communal lurgy isn't a benefit to anyone.