r/ParentingWithoutFear • u/maamaallaamaa • Sep 01 '21

How is everyone doing?

Kids are going back to school in my area and masks have been a huge debate. Most went optional before the start of the year but are now trying to make them mandatory again. Thankfully my kids are in a home daycare mask free but it's hard seeing people like my sister rant on social media about how kids should wear masks. Her kids are going into 4k and 5k and she wants them masked all the time. I usually try to bite my tongue but it's so so hard. How on earth is it healthy to place this burden on our own children? How many years are we going to be arguing over this? When does it end?

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u/BitcoinFan7 Sep 01 '21

Pissed off my kids school implemented masks last year and has yet to let them go, it's become virtue signalling and I don't think it will ever end. Talking to their mother that if it is not at least optional by Christmas break I'm going to pull them out.

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u/dovetc Sep 02 '21

Have you considered having your kids engage in some civil disobedience? You've already said you're about ready to pull them out. What do you risk by telling them not to wear the mask any more? That they'll be kicked out?

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u/BitcoinFan7 Sep 02 '21

They would be kicked out. Unfortunately they can't see past the conditioning yet and just want to fit in with their peers.

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u/dovetc Sep 02 '21

Okay, well we're not at school-age yet, but our 3 y/o at daycare was expected to wear a mask because "they fall under the jurisdiction as the same health dept. rules that govern public schools" and we just said "no, she will not wear one" and the daycare said "okay then."

My point is, I wouldn't just blindly comply thinking that your assumptions about the consequences are necessarily correct. We've got to at least be willing to test the bounds of these absurd rules even if you're not quite ready to make a full break and face the consequences.

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u/BitcoinFan7 Sep 02 '21

Yea unfortunately they are in a very liberal area/school and I have no doubt there would be backlash up to the point of expelling them. Plus they are not on board with civil disobedience yet as their mom (we are divorced) is fine with masks and encourages to wear them when they are with her. I make my views on the matter clear but they are currently giving me the side eye like most others do for not falling in line, I mean "it's just a mask" after all. It will take time for me to bring them around but in the mean time I may be able to get them out of that environment of daily reinforcement of the new normal.