My teens are saying they will ignore any new restrictions

[WearyandBleary]

Big argument this evening. My teens are saying they will ignore any new restrictions because they are mixing at school/college anyway, so what’s the point of not mixing outside of school?

They are really furious. I am quite shocked at how angry they are.

Are they being really selfish? I’m so cross with them. How are other people’s teens taking the possibility of more restrictions?

Dont blame them. It's not selfish, they're together all day. Why are Saturday and Sunday any different?

@ErdingtonOffer

Bloody good on them. After what my family went through during the first lockdown, we are only just starting to recover and we are not going back to it. I am at the point now where my first concern is my family and my family's wellbeing, it's not my job to protect the nation.

Amen to this!

I don’t blame them! 6 months at home, 6 months of remote learning... months of not going out, seeing friends, socialising, doing sport, activities. Missed out on proms, sitting exams, residential trips, seeing grandparents/ cousins/family.

More lockdowns aren’t going to change anything long term. It will keep coming back again and again once restrictions are loosened. It’s going to be a cycle until a vaccine is introduced.

My year 7 dd got the school bus home with her big brother who is year 11 for the first time last week.. once the bus left school dd said they all took their masks off...

It is the school bubble thing that has tipped them over the edge. Saying you are risk after fifteen minutes of close contact - and then putting them in school/college for up to 8 hours and talking about it being “safe”. But then after school is somehow dangerous...? There’s no logic to it.

They’ve been so good for months. But they are done.

(And they absolutely hate the tories.)

Shield/lockdown people over the age of 75. Sorry but that is the age this is affecting. Someone dying in a car crash or of cancer is automatically a cv19 death? Surely that cannot be right. Average age of CV19 death 79.

We are becoming obsessed with this.

So my DC has missed out on exams, missed out on a prom, has stayed in all summer and now is at a new school where they are not meant to socialise. There are no organized clubs or sports after school. They will be paying for these lockdowns for the rest of their lives and yet some twat on mumsnet thinks they can call them selfish for not wanting to comply.

No, hardly any young people are affected by covid including the ridiculous ‘long covid’ which is actually post viral syndrome common to all viruses but of course the exalted covid has to have a special name.

I don’t blame the young for thinking fuck it, they’re getting the blame anyway. The scare factor has gone now for many people as they accept a new illness has appeared and is now endemic, just as has happened throughout history. Other european countries are behaving more rationally than the U.K. and they also don’t have to worry about the Brexit shitshow. Wouldn’t be surprised if the U.K. went belly up next year.

I am amazed to the amount of people supporting their attitude instead of backing OP on following the rules
Mine does walk to school and back with some children on her bubble. Keeping a distance. No sharing anything, no hugs, no handholding. She was allowed to stay in the park if keeping distance, for a little while after school. That is within the local rules.
I suppose what OP means by not following the rules is indoor gatherings with their bubble (high risk of them touching/ sharing things with other siblings/ parents), or meeting other teenagers from other bubbles/ groups. And that is seriously risky unfortunatelly.

If we’re talking about parties then yanbu.
But I can’t get worked up over 3 kids/teens from different households meeting up in a garden (illegal) while they are perfectly fine with 6 people, all from different households to sit around the same table at the pub.

Chode are you seriously classing sitting on a park bench as breaking lockdown?

It being advised not to sit on a park bench is slightly different to breaking the law.

Are they going to pay any fines? If not they should follow your lead.

@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

I don't blame them. They can be in a classroom with the same people for 6 hours a day, but can't with them outside of school.

My children feel this way and i cant say i see the logic.

There were two people a couple of months ago on the BBC moaning they had long Covid. Silly twits didn’t feel the need to have a test. They just knew..this is the sort of people we are up against.

Ask them how they propose to pay the fines they will incur. It would be really foolish to assume they won't be fined - the only way the government can possibly make any of this work is by showing that they are fully prepared to levy and enforce fines.

Young people are disproportionately affected by restrictions, in their social life, work and education, yet are hardly affected at all by CV. They were also called snowflakes and told to "suck up" Brexit by the older generation..... so hardly surprising so many just say FU to a society that has turned its back on them in so many ways.

@kitnkaboodle Basically this. As a group they are being asked to make the biggest long-term sacrifices in economic, mental health and general future quality of life terms, and their reward is to be scapegoated for spreading the virus (despite the fact that many of them work in people-facing hospitality jobs) and dismissed as pathetic snowflakes who just need to suck it up and show some ‘resilience’. And none of this is happening in a vacuum - young people are being asked to make these sacrifices in the wake of being royally shat on via their elders’ selfish decisions on Brexit and climate change.

Not at all surprised if some of them are deciding they owe the older generations nothing.

What fines are they really going to give to teenagers who sleep over at their partner’s parents’ house? Or who socialise with their “bubble” at a private home? Really?

I guess you are all wanting another 6 months of schools being closed?

It is genuine madness. Teens are very low risk of dying or actually being a little but poorly from covid. They have every right to object to the madness of current rules. I am more concerned about ‘grown ups‘ who think these rules are sane than teenagers who are logically questioning the status quo.

Was anyone fined for staying at their partner’s house?

@Timeforanotherusername

I guess you are all wanting another 6 months of schools being closed?

FFS! No. However it just doesn't make sense.

The bubble thing has always been complete nonsense anyway. I mean it’s not like any of them have siblings, go to childminders, get the bus with other year groups is it?

those teens go into schools and colleges etc.

You may not be bothered if they infect you. But what about all the school staff they will come across?

My children will comply because I will tell them too but I can totally get how it just makes no sense.

@Seriouslymole

I don't think you should be cross with them, I think you should be cross for them. Children of all ages, but particularly teens have been absolutely shafted in the handling of this.

I'm with your teens frankly.

This!👌🏽

never i think I remember your hysterical posts from another thread!

Not going to engage......