How are your kids coping?

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15yo girl: bit grumpy she can’t see her friends, but otherwise sitting in a dark stinky room for weeks on end on her phone is pretty much her usual pastime. 😬 Thinks she’s on holiday. Slept in this morning and forgot to sign in for her online schooling. 🙄

10yo boy: going round the twist. Has way too much unburned energy. Spends hours in the garden bouncing his basketball which must be driving the neighbours batty. So bored he volunteered to clean the house. 😳

Yours?

13 year old not coping. He was very settled in school (Sen, mainstream) and now suddenly that's gone. His climbing kept him on track mentally and physically and that's closed for weeks now. No teachers, who were doing a brilliant job of motivating him, so he's refusing any homework.
Watching you tube a lot. He's changed already. This is going to be a nightmare to unravel when they finally go back to school. He might start school refusing again

Cornish. Children still spread the virus though so that is why schools need to stay closed in order to slow the spread generally. Because people can spread the virus before they have symptoms, the young fit teacher you mention can still spread it when she visits the supermarket or passes it on to her immunocompromised partner etc etc. We need to dramatically slow the spread so the NHS can cope with the proportion of people that do need hospital treatment.

@puppymouse can I ask more about this read aloud story video exchange

My two girls struggled to understand at first but this video helped explain it well

@mochajoes I just video DD reading a story from a book and then WhatsApp it to my aunt. She sends one of her reading one back!

I was catching up with DD's teacher and mentioned we were doing it and now she has uploaded it as a story corner to the class page as well! It's sweet.

4yo extrovert is hugely missing his nursery, friends and grandparents. Also missing the fun stuff we usually get up to out of the house. He is more frustrated and defiant than usual, although I think that may be an age / stage thing as well. He is getting more used to it though, and it helps that he’s old enough to understand what’s happening and that the rules are being imposed by someone other than me!

8 week old has recently started on medication for her reflux and is a much happier baby for it. Has 24/7 access to milk and a mother who doesn’t currently have the willpower to try and get her to sleep in her cot. So she’s fine!

DS(6) seems fine on the surface but is suddenly being scared of lots of random things (i.e. stories that didn't previously scare him) so I think his anxiety is showing that way. He talks to friends on xbox but is struggling with not seeing grandparents or going out to places.

DD(3) is also struggling, she thinks she is ill as she had chickenpox last year and had to stay in so to her this is the same situation. She really misses my parents and has started to randomly cry for no reason.

Both are still going to sleep fine but waking up soooo early.

I believe this will all have a massive impact for childrens mental health.

7 year old twins who are acting like this new way it life is completely normal. They do their school work quite happily for a couple of hours in the morning (whole I wfh) then we have lunch, do a craft, bake and then go for a walk. DH gets home at 5. I guess having a same age sibling helps at a time like this.

DD1 is 2 and 9 months and has always been really good at going to bed, now she screams and cries wanting to stay up watching TV all night and wont stay in bed. I have to lie on the floor with her til she falls asleep. She knows things are different but doesn't understand why. She misses her playgroups and seeing my parents. Its really sad

9 yr old mostly fine but had one mega meltdown about what if me and dh die and is quicker than usual to cry and shout.

7 yr old v angry. All his physical outlets gone and he is kind of boy who needs a daily run like a doggy. He misses karate and running round roaring with friends.

4 yo okay so far but missing time just with me as he now has to share me with his siblings.