Shameful treatment of children

[CottageGardener]

Taster days cancelled, work experience cancelled, sports days cancelled, exams cancelled, fetes cancelled, extra curriculum activities cancelled, end of year school assembly cancelled, transition day cancelled, trips cancelled, proms cancelled, the list goes on....

For a virus that 80% of the population now have antibodies for. The kids will never have a chance to do some of these things again. SHAMEFUL.

I did say very rough calculations! Taking it up to 49 makes it 16%.

If we're talking about school closures over lockdown, we would need to add in people on furlough as not needing childcare too.

I noticed because I’ll be 44 when ds starts primary school!

Yeah skinny you show my six month old

@Skinnytailedsquirrel

Oh for goodness sake, I'm fed up hearing of the "poor children". You are giving them a rod for their own back by talking like that. Children are resilient normally but all this talk about how poor they are really isn't doing them any favours.

Poor "young people" So many of them haven't given a flying fuck about containing this virus and have behaved atrociously...so no...I don't feel "poor them" either.

What a load of claptrap

I noticed because I’ll be 44 when ds starts primary school!

And I’ll be 42. 33/34 would definitely be at the younger end of my peers starting their families - London here, so older mums very much the norm.

What a load of claptrap

Ah thanks @MarshaBradyo; you got there first!

@lavenderandwisteria

I noticed because I’ll be 44 when ds starts primary school!

Yeah I should have noticed that I'll be over 44 when my youngest leaves primary. There's probably a bit of denial involved in that!

But yeah, that 16% can be whittled down further with people who don't work, aren't in work or who have other sources of childcare.

Temps I mused over a few options briefly.

@TempsPerdu

I noticed because I’ll be 44 when ds starts primary school!

And I’ll be 42. 33/34 would definitely be at the younger end of my peers starting their families - London here, so older mums very much the norm.

I so need to move to London!

Sorry, back to topic

The average age of a first time mother is 28.8 according to google.

Stop rubbing it in!

Although in my experience it’s quite unusual for someone to actually become a mum for the first time at 28. Usually it’s significantly older or younger which of course then averages out at 28.

@noblegiraffe

The average age of a first time mother is 28.8 according to google.

Really surprises me that. I'd have thought average age of first time mother would be mid 30s nowadays.

@Skinnytailedsquirrel you obviously do not have kids OR you are over 60.

Or just v v bitter

'Oh for goodness sake, I'm fed up hearing of the "poor children". You are giving them a rod for their own back by talking like that. Children are resilient normally but all this talk about how poor they are really isn't doing them any favours.'

Very true. Lead by example, lots of listening letting them share their worries etc but then reassure them. Point out life is rapidly improving and things are already feeling more like normal life. Then get them out of the house and stop wallowing!

Why do people keep reiterating that patents are being negative?

Is it the only point there is? Because it’s incorrect which means there is no point of these posts.

Parents..

Reading them makes me think poster is either old or high self interest

Something is highly motivating and it isn’t worrying about the ‘wallowing’

'Reading them makes me think poster is either old or high self interest'

Who, me? I have teenage dc and even if was 'either old' so what? Please don't be so ageist.

Not sure what you mean by high self interest tbh.

As I've said I've many family and friends with older dc, younger dc, exam year dc, etc etc and all our dc are doing just fine. Not saying everyone's are. Those with highly anxious parents or those with existing mh problems exacerbated by the pandemic will of course need extra support, but certainly not most dc.

@JaniieJones

'Reading them makes me think poster is either old or high self interest'

Who, me? I have teenage dc and even if was 'either old' so what? Please don't be so ageist.

Not sure what you mean by high self interest tbh.

As I've said I've many family and friends with older dc, younger dc, exam year dc, etc etc and all our dc are doing just fine. Not saying everyone's are. Those with highly anxious parents or those with existing mh problems exacerbated by the pandemic will of course need extra support, but certainly not most dc.

Hence either - you didn’t have to be old.

No this thread isn’t just for anxious dc it with mh impact. But too low priority for dc. Some parents always but dc first, or want to, others don’t get it.

Put dc first..

Oh the irony of calling us the anxious parents!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-57526273

the first minister announced a series of small measures he said were designed "to make those regulations easier to understand and to apply to everyday life".

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Primary school children in the same school contact group or bubble will be able to stay overnight in a residential outdoor education centre

That's progress and it's good it's on the poltical radar though I image it's too late for many school trips this year.