Toddlers Can't Shake Pandemic Habits. Parents Are Rattled.

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Toddlers growing up during the pandemic have strange, hygienic hobbies— including using hand sanitizer, playing with thermometers and wiping surfaces.

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[Walleye]

1. Hey I can't shake them either

[MiHale]

2. Since the pandemic is raging on...

They are now classified as Good Habits. Now for the masks.

[Budi]

3. Even toddlers know better.

The pandemic isn't over, btw.

[RockRaven]

4. Toddlers aren't vaccinated yet, so they shouldn't be trying to break those habits anyway...

[Irish_Dem]

5. Will be interesting to see if this is extinguished over time or remain imprinted.

Toddlers are very impressionable and feelings and behavior can remain over time.

[The Magistrate]

6. It Would Not Surprise Me, Sir

If an unusual proportion of children of pre-school age during this plague season go into the medical profession when they grow up.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. How strange

Neither can I. And my 3 year old granddaughter will ask everyone if they've washed their hands. She lives in FloriDUH and will ask unmasked persons why they aren't wearing a mask, even. (Her mom tried to shush her on that one, not wanting trouble, but Miss P is not deterred.)

[zuul]

8. I'm more concerned with the long-term effects

of children having to deal with "active shooter drills" at their damn schools.