“Parents are exhausted on a level we’ve not seen before,” said Amanda Zelechoski, a Purdue University Northwest psychology professor who co-founded the website and nonprofit Pandemic Parenting. Deciding what’s OK for children to do and what isn’t can feel fraught. The politicization of masks, vaccines and shutdowns have worn many parents out. Then the return of in-person school this year brought rising exposures and community tension as parents fought over proper protocols. Online school disrupted kids’ educations and parents’ work. There’s the exhaustion of worrying about the disease itself- made worse by the spread of the more infectious delta variant, particularly among people who refuse vaccinations, which has caused a big increase in infections in children. Like parents everywhere, Cessac has been dealing with pandemic stress for over 18 months now. “It just felt so, I don’t know, defeating and made me feel so helpless.” ![]() “The anxiety and the stress has sort of been bottled up,” she said. ![]() Having them all sick at once and worrying about long-term repercussions as other parents at their school, and even her own mother, downplayed the virus, “broke something inside of me,” Cessac said. PHOENIX (AP) - Eight days into the school year, all five of Amber Cessac’s daughters, ages 4 to 10, had tested positive for COVID-19.
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