The first Spring Festival after the release is approaching, and recently many people have been discussing the past three years, which is infinitely emotional.
I remember queuing for nucleic acid testing last year, and I heard a little girl in front of me ask her mother: "Mom, were you afraid of doing nucleic acid when you were a child?" ”
At first, everyone still felt a little funny, but slowly quieted, the first memories of this generation of children's lives began from the epidemic, home isolation, and doing nucleic acid.
Many young people on the Internet lament that "youth is only a few years, the epidemic is three years", but what about those children who grew up in the epidemic?
Childhood is fleeting, they are still in the ignorant era, with vigorous curiosity, the 3-year epidemic has almost become the main theme of their early life, and the description and imagination of the epidemic are completely different from any other age group.
No matter how imaginative a writer is, no matter how delicate and rich the brushstrokes are, it is impossible to fabricate children's childlike perspective on the epidemic out of thin air.
The epidemic in the eyes of a 3-year-old child is 3 years: nucleic acid is like a shadow
Most children do not understand why wearing masks can block the spread of the virus, nor do they understand why they need to open their mouths to do nucleic acid, but the repeated epidemic in the past three years has made many children accustomed to nucleic acid, and even regarded nucleic acid as part of daily life.
A father with a 3-year-old daughter shared that from the beginning of doing nucleic acid was poked in the nose and crying, to the later change to a throat swab unwilling to take sugar to coax, and then to the initiative to open his mouth to be praised, for a long time, the daughter was elated when she heard the downstairs staff shout "do nucleic acid", because it meant that there would be a precious period of downstairs wind time.
When asked what career they want to pursue when they grow up and what they dream of, the answers given by children in the past were scientists, astronauts, engineers.
But this dad found that staying at home during the epidemic lockdown, his daughter's most common game was to build a nucleic acid testing booth with building blocks, playing "Dabai" to make nucleic acid for dolls, and her first ideal career in life turned out to be "Dabai".
For children, it usually takes about 3 weeks to initially develop a new habit, and for 3 years of the epidemic, nucleic acid has been "accompanied" to children like a shadow, becoming the deepest childhood memory.
Loneliness has become the norm, and kindergarten is full of expectations
Some time ago, the father above celebrated his daughter's 3rd birthday, and he planned to invite several friends of similar age in the community to celebrate at home, but because of the epidemic, he finally gave up.
Although her daughter had no special concept of birthday and happily ate cake, the next day, she suddenly said to her mother: "Mom, I'm so lonely." ”
A child who has just turned 3 years old, can't even say all the daily words in his mouth, but suddenly pops out such a profound sentence, which caught his parents off guard and felt the need to make changes, and couldn't wait to take his daughter to measure the motherland with his feet in the spring of 2023.
In the past, when many children first entered kindergarten, they had "separation anxiety", were unwilling to leave their parents to go to school, and had a strong resistance to kindergarten.
But for 3-year-old children who have become the norm and have experienced the epidemic, they are enthusiastic about going to kindergarten and have a different kind of expectation, and the 3-year-old daughter often asks her parents at home: "When can I go to kindergarten?" ”
Now that the pandemic has finally been lifted, children who are about to enter school can also have a more complete school experience, which is undoubtedly the best news.
The pandemic has made children strong and still have hope
In September 2021, after a 4-year-old child in Putian tested positive for nucleic acid, because his parents could not accompany him, he had to wear protective clothing alone and carry a heavy school bag, bravely walked into the consultation room for examination, and obediently cooperated with the epidemic prevention work throughout the process, without shedding a single tear, which sensibly made people feel distressed.
Mengwa left alone, and when she turned around, she said to her mother, "Mom, you don't cry, I'm not a coward", which made countless netizens cry, and their hearts were very unpleasant.
In 3 years, our lives have brought great changes, adults are facing unprecedented economic pressure, students are tormented by online classes "annoyed", those children who are only a few years old are forced to take a brave and self-improvement class, in the stumbling have to learn to be strong and brave, this forced helplessness, so that children lose their sunny and happy childhood, which is heart-wrenching.
However, fortunately, things are developing in a positive direction, although the epidemic has not disappeared, people's lives are slowly returning to normal, many children's childhood is not over, still full of unknowns, with all possibilities, and there are opportunities to get out of the house, contact new environments, and feel the nourishment of love.
Lao Miao Conclusion:
Many people lamented that if there were no epidemic, what kind of life should we live and how dashing we should live.
Now that the spring of the new year is getting closer and closer, this "epidemic prevention war" has also entered a new stage, I hope everyone can cherish the present and still hope for the future.
Today's topic: What changes do you think the epidemic has brought to children's lives?
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