Unlocking the small people

[LaTomatina]

We are in Slovenia.

Our nurseries and school grades 1 -3 (9 years old and younger) went back today. We have been locked down for the last 13 weeks (since mid October, as well as the 1st lockdown from mid March to mid May last year) homeschooling for 10 of them.

I have 4 children - 2 at school and 2 in nursery.

I feel completely broken. My 2 year old started nursery in September and had only just settled when everything closed in the middle of October. So this morning he (and many others) was screaming this morning, completely back to square one. It's not fair on the children. It's very hard in the teachers. It's brutal for the parents.

I don't really know what my point is here. I am not looking for anyone to blame. Just feel so many people have been so traumatized by lockdown and even though in some ways there is an end in sight with the vaccine, and school beginning to open here, I don't think we have any idea what the real cost of all this is yet.

I feel for you, I had a screamer, when he went to nursery, although he was a very confident child. Hopefully your DC will be back to normal soon. Here in UK nurseries are open, but not primary schools, but our cases are reducing, but hospitals are very full.

I think it will take them time but they will adjust back to being in. Mine cried every time I dropped him off, happy once I'd gone away. This is obviously a bit (a lot) different but I do think the children will recover. Yours are all small and probably very happy to have that extra time with you, even though I'm sure you are at the end of your tether - I'm struggling with work and I just have 2 dc, you do have it tough. I do think staying open when the figures are high would be a worse option. Have vaccinations started in Slovenia?
(Had a holiday in Slovenia years ago and would love to return, great place).

Thanks, both. Yeah, I am sure my child will be fine eventually. Just feels so rotten, when he already went through this in the autumn, that we have to do it all over again. But I already went through it with my 3 older children (albeit only once each with them) so I know it passes.
Vaccinations have started here (around the same time as in the UK). But just like in the UK people are now obsessing about the New Strain (which is here called The New UK Strain) so hard to know if there really is an end in sight. And all the children/teens from grade 4 (age 10) and up are still stuck at home.

The new U.K. strain! We must be viewed as outcasts in Europe!
I imagine too that one child crying at drop off leads to another child crying and so on- they must be wondering what the hell is going on.