Aibu to think that a lot of kids are extremely anxious after lockdown?

[MrsHookey]

I've got one child who seems extremely anxious since lockdown. Anecdotally it seems like a few kids I know are like this. Is this a wider thing? Are mumsnetters finding their children have become anxious since March 2020?

Yes pretty normal here

School full co curricular, theatre tonight, lunches, indoor parties

Only thing is in London so masks on pt and you still have to book to do things like museums

@Oftenithinkaboutit

Because it seems like so many posters are still right in the thick of it

Both normal and in the thick of it here (NE rural Scotland). As in life is pretty normal but cases feel high. Barely any cases in DD’s school during first or second waves but masses at the moment. Lots of friends have been very poorly with covid lately. DD was very ill with it for a while though thankfully fully recovered. At least one family member has needed PCR tests almost weekly for contacts or symptoms for the past month or so. So… normal in that I’m organising normal life and then not normal in that I’m constantly having to cancel normal life!

@MarshaBradyo

Also with pretty much all children having had it transmission in schools won’t be like before when fewer than half did. It wouldn’t make sense to close them

Fwiw I can't see national school closures again either. There's the point you made, but also we have a system where for better or for worse, school has an extremely significant childcare function.

The reason the previous closures somewhat worked, if you ignore the welfare of the kids involved of course, is because enough parents were able to be in positions where they didn't need childcare. Either because of furlough or access to keyworker places. There was a cohort who were still working and whose children were denied education, but it evidently wasn't big enough to prevent a drop in mixing or to cause sufficient political damage to make it unviable.

That would no longer be the case now. Furlough is gone. Goodwill from employers is often in shorter supply than earlier in the pandemic, and parents are more desperate and angry. We'd see even more widespread piss taking of any key worker place scheme, and those parents whose kids were judged unworthy of school would be relying on cobbled together options in greater numbers than last time, because of lack of furlough. Meaning more contacts, which reduces the efficacy of any lockdown anyway. It would also be more politically damaging than previous closures because people are cumulatively more angry.

Also

Death rate not a fraction of what it was!!

Yes, that too. Hugely significant factor. I also think even if it rose we still wouldn't see school closures again though.

Agreed.

I’m very very confident that no school closures at my very sensible children’s school (not closed once and no ridiculous “burst bubble”)

The other problem with closing schools at this point would be that the vaccination and booster programmes have done very well, so it would be somewhat tantamount to saying ‘we are going to close schools every winter when covid rates rise’ (which in all likelihood they will, similar to flu, unless a different type of vaccine is developed). The situation in Austria is very different because they haven’t had the vaccine roll out they wanted.