To not understand why people go on about the impact of Covid lockdown on children

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It comes up all the time on MN and I don't get it.

They had several months off school, couldn"t see their friends or grandparents or do clubs. Then lockdown ended, back to school, friends, grandparents and clubs.

How come people say "because Covid" to explain young people's behaviour.

Disclaimer: I'm not talking abouy kids in abusive families.

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As a teacher I liken it to socialising puppies. If key socialisation doesn’t happen at the right times it will forever be an issue
In the classroom behaviour is slowly getting back to pre-Covid standards. However we do still have the “covid babies” to come through and I think these may be some of the trickiest as they really will have missed out

Certainly haven’t missed this type of sneering bullshit which was absolutely rife at the time.

I had zero issues parenting my child during the lockdowns. What I couldn’t do was replace all the vital social interaction she missed out on for months on end. I could have been the best parent in the world and she would still have struggled. I was wracked with guilt at the time, which was exacerbated by coming onto MN to ask for help and being told by people like you that it was my fault she wasn’t coping.