It’s not that we hate our kids, is that they have enormous social needs that are usually spread out over peers and teachers and are now concentrated on us and we are also exhausted and sad and some of us are trying to work and some of us are trying to make dinner, it’s so much

And it is SO DEVASTATING for most parents that I know, that our kids don’t get to hang out and be dumb with their friends, that their main and sometimes sole social contact is with their Pandemic Parent, who frankly isn’t coping super well

So there’s GUILT on top of the exhaustion and the annoyance, guilt for feeling those feelings about children that we went through so much to bring into our worlds.

And like maybe ok, maybe it’s not a good look to bitch about your kids on the social medes, maybe save that for your fb mom group (that’s what *I*m doing) but not everybody HAS groups, not everybody has friends they can be frank with

And for those parents, it can be hugely relieving to see a parent they respect and know to be generally loving being like, *Do you want me to murder them .gif* on main