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In reply to the discussion: It's becoming more and more personal [View all]Squidly
(783 posts)That the generation growing up through this will be affected the same way that the generation who grew up through the Great Depression did.
Many kids who grew up during the Great Depression, our parents, grand parents, great grand parents learned as children to save and horde everything because they became fearful that they may never have it again. For example, containers of all kinds, bits and pieces of materials, canned and dried food...list goes on and on. They also learned some very valuable skills such as canning and preserving food, gardening and sewing. Many of these skills were lost to future generations when times were good and items were plentiful.
Kids growing up through Covid, like your grand daughter seems like she might be developing habits that might affect her through her whole life as did those who grew up during the Great Depression. Hopefully they will eventually turn into positives, but right now it might seem almost like a form of PTSD.
Hopefully this will pass and not linger for years so we can all look back at 2020 like a bad pothole in the road of life.