Its so sad. My middle child was born in 2020 and while we ignored all the covid rules and she's far better off than the kids talked about in this article you, you can still see it impacted her.
She's fine around family and friends though her speech isn't quite as advanced as her older sisters was at 4 (tbf the eldest was VERY advanced at 4). But she won't seek out interactions with people she doesn't know, she's stand oafish and takes quite a while to warm up to people.
I remember when everyone else was wearing masks and I'd take her grocery shopping or something she'd get upset if a masked person tried to interact with her. Would reel away from them and refuse to look at them.
It's monstrous. I feel so bad for kids who parents just went along with it all without a single care for the impact it was having.
How are these people so uncaring that they don't talk to their kids? I don't know a single mother who doesn't narrate at their kids mindlessly before they can talk.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope she can overcome it with exposure to faces.
I refused to wear a mask (except when required for my blood work and even then it was literally a gauze thing I made that didn't impact my breathing) and I had a hard time talking to or looking at people wearing masks. It's always been hard for me. I need to see faces for people to be 'real', if that makes any sense. I could see why she'd be freaked out by people in masks.
Its so sad. My middle child was born in 2020 and while we ignored all the covid rules and she's far better off than the kids talked about in this article you, you can still see it impacted her.
She's fine around family and friends though her speech isn't quite as advanced as her older sisters was at 4 (tbf the eldest was VERY advanced at 4). But she won't seek out interactions with people she doesn't know, she's stand oafish and takes quite a while to warm up to people.
I remember when everyone else was wearing masks and I'd take her grocery shopping or something she'd get upset if a masked person tried to interact with her. Would reel away from them and refuse to look at them.
It's monstrous. I feel so bad for kids who parents just went along with it all without a single care for the impact it was having.
How are these people so uncaring that they don't talk to their kids? I don't know a single mother who doesn't narrate at their kids mindlessly before they can talk.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope she can overcome it with exposure to faces.
I refused to wear a mask (except when required for my blood work and even then it was literally a gauze thing I made that didn't impact my breathing) and I had a hard time talking to or looking at people wearing masks. It's always been hard for me. I need to see faces for people to be 'real', if that makes any sense. I could see why she'd be freaked out by people in masks.
Shell be OK. Lucky we had a good community of people who refused to comply so she's way better than a lot of kids I've seen.
I think she just won't end up as open and approachable as her siblings... which isn't the worst thing in the world.