What effect will this situation have on my kids' generation? Any at all? None?

[gollygee]

Kids who are missing a month of school and can't go out and do social things? It used to happen a very long time ago - people would be stuck at home on the frontier all winter, and people stayed away from other during times of illness - but it has been a very long time. My kids have dealt with insecurity at school due to lock-downs and the threat of gun violence (legitimate threats at their school but no actual violence thank goodness) and now this.

On the other hand, maybe it won't last that long and it will be like when I was little and we were off school for weeks due to a blizzard. Maybe it won't make any difference at all.

What do you think?

[msongs]

1. IMO kids and teens have little to no awareness about spreading disease among their healthy

looking peers. telling a kid he needs to sacrifice his fun to avoid infection or he might spread it to granny is not gonna be too successful

[Crunchy Frog]

7. My kids get it completely, and they're 11.

We've explained everything very straightforwardly and they get it. They don't want Grandma or Mom to maybe die.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

2. This will be multigenerational defining tragedy

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. I think we are just at the start of a profound, life changing event.

[greenjar_01]

9. Yes, world historical event

[Cirque du So-What]

4. For several years, youth have been socializing without face-to-face contact

This pandemic may not have a profound impact if means of communication remain intact. I daresay my generation would have been more restless during confinement.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Right now, it's too early to say.

[MLAA]

6. My first thought on impact to school age kids is the loss of grandparents.

[greenjar_01]

8. Massive

40 years from now, people will say "Oh, they act that way because they're children of the virus years," the way we say "They grew up in the Depression."

Our children will be formed by this for the rest of their lives. They'll tell stories about how one day, they were told there was no more school, and had to stay home. Many will lose their parents.

[jmg257]

10. Internet...plenty opportunities to be social

While keeping distance.

[MoonlitKnight]

11. Except they are seeing peers out and about

And wondering why they can’t also.

[Hoyt]

12. My Lady Friend's 3-year-old grandson has coughing into his elbow down.