There are a lottttt of shitty, judgemental notes on this. Things like calling parents who need a break abusive or terrible parents. Saying they shouldn’t have had kids if they expected other people to raise them. And that’s just so far off the mark and harmful.
Let me start by saying obviously there are parents out there who should not have had children and do abuse their kids or pawn them off on people so they don’t have to deal with them. But even good, dedicated, loving parents need help.
You have to think, kids of working parents are used to school, daycare, babysitters etc. They’re used to the socialisation and being around different people. Now they have been confined to their own homes and property for four or more months with only their parents and, if they have them, siblings to socialise with. They’re understimulated and restless which leads to generally disruptive, or at least abnormal behaviour.
Factor in that many parents are working full time from home while still providing full time care to children. This is even more difficult with young children because they aren’t self sufficient and require more supervision. Also, not all kids are tablet and TV kids. Some aren’t content with sitting in front of a screen for hours. They like to be active and play. And there’s also the outside stressors of the current state of the world affecting parents’ mental health as well, which makes it even more difficult.
Even good parents need a break from their kids and y'all wanna get on your soapbox and bash them for reaching out when they’re overwhelmed and need help. But if they don’t get help and end up doing something irrational and hurt their kids, y'all are the same ones that blame them for not reaching out. Needing a break from your children or needing help with them doesn’t make someone a bad parent and pushing a narrative that it does is beyond dangerous. You can still love your kids and take some time for yourself, it doesn’t make you a bad person, it makes you HUMAN.
Like I said this doesn’t extend to genuinely bad parents who DO resent their children and see them as burdensome and abuse them etc. Or people who act like spending any time at all with their kids is an inconvenience. This was about good parents who are struggling and whose struggles are completely valid and shouldn’t be shamed.
I’m reblogging this version as well (thanks @pantsaremandatory)
Parents do need help and support! The nuclear family is a really difficult life style at the best of times but during a pandemic especially with financial stress on top of everything else I imagine it’s getting pretty overwhelming.
Both of these things can be true at once. Parents need more support and children deserve to be raised by people who love and care for them. But that second one can be best achieved by surrounding parents with support networks so that when they need a break there is someone else to pick up where they need support.
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