brownmane
off kilter
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Regarding the kids, I do think the fear and uncertainty of the times has brought about the fear of going to school.My Daughter in law's job involves working with children who have turned into school refusers or who have suffered poor mental health that has kept them out of school. Apparently the numbers of children who refuse to go to school has exploded since Covid. Presumably the number of children preferring Friday night to Sunday night hasn't changed, so what did Covid do to make children not want to go to school - apart from tell them that they didn't have to go to school? Has there been a similar decline in mental health among those who continued to go to school during Covid?
And if those of us who work shifts and therefore don't have a Sunday to have the Sunday Scaries on (often not having two consecutive days off in a week) don't dread work, then perhaps it's more to do with two days off together than anything intrinsic to Sunday?
Not only were kids exposed to daily (sometimes graphic) updates on the ongoing pandemic through media, they also experienced their parents' fear. It is not usual that children, at these relatively young ages, learn that their parents are just people with the same fears and inability to deal with unknowns.
Their (kids) safe world view was shattered. Nothing is really safe. That's a lot to deal with as a kid.