Like many toddlers, 1-year-old Asher Subramanyam is capable of bending the household to his routines and rituals.
The Connecticut tot demands that all visitors wash their hands before leaning down for a hug. There are no exceptions, as his grandparents found out on a recent visit. “He would motion for them to wash their hands or he would come over and pretend to give them hand sanitizer,” says Asher’s father, Dr. Venkat Subramanyam.
Covid-19 has created a sub-generation of children hard-wired for hygiene. Little ones have picked up all the pandemic-related behaviors grown-ups have adopted for the last 18 months—or for as long as many tykes have been around. Since birth, Autumn Barron’s 11-month-old daughter has watched wide-eyed as temperatures are checked at restaurants and doctor’s offices. Ms. Barron, a Texas homemaker, says her daughter plays with the family’s thermometer as if it is a toy. Trips to the doctor, once a mainstay of childhood dread, are instead a highlight because of the prospect of a new temperature check from the child’s favorite medical device. “She likes that it lights up and makes a little beeping noise,” Ms. Barron says.
Children are generally gross little disease vectors. They wipe their runny noses on furniture, pick their noses and eat it, and drool all over shit. I look forward to a generation of kids who won't give me a cold every time they bump into me.
My grandmother lived through the Spanish Flu. She raised a family of hand-washing, Lysol-wielding, winter-crowd-avoiding germaphobes who passed those habits to their children and their children’s children.
anblanx Thank goodness something good has come of it
Ever time I see a little baby like that with a mask on I want the parents of kid put in jail for child abuse
As a customer many years ago I clean tables at restaurantes before and after I eat,wash hands when i get in to my house, change my clothes, dont give a huge or kiss to any ill person, some people told me before the pandemic u are spevial and I didnt care
Echt serieus, ik leer mijn kinderen dat het dragen van een mondkapje niet normaal is, en in de tijd dat we nu leven ook niet normaal is.. En wat ik mijn kinderen vooral leer, is voor zich zelf na te denken.. En alles zomaar aannemen wat onze zogenaamde volksvertegenwoordigers 1
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Kids are smarter and tougher than adults
A sterilized society is easy prey for germs.
Hygiene, washing hands and surfaces, covering their mouths when they cough and sneeze, not going to school/daycare if sick, caring about others and understanding how respiratory illnesses are transmitted. All of these are good things as a parent and ER doc.
Means fewer ear infections in nursery or day care
I don’t see the problem here. I know my three year old is very conscious about cleaning his hands and is just fine getting temp checks and wearing his mask (it’s just another piece of clothing at this point). These are good habits.
WSJ: The Great Depression has created a sub-generation hard-wired for good spending and eating habits
Creating a mental disorder. My 2.5 year old doesn’t even realize anything is going on. That’s how you parent. Not using fear. She is having a 💯 normal childhood. No masks. No worrying. Just some extra time and love from mom and dad.
Stay home🔐
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Just what we need... an entire generation of OCD germaphobes... and that would be in addition to their ADD, Anxiety and all the other 'conditions'...
It was always about conditioning. Never about 'the science.'
nice
A report that shows that you know nothing about what 'hard wires' behaviour in children. God!
Not my kids. You definitely never spoke to me.
I don't think there is anything wrong with being healthy and extra careful these days. 🥰🥰
Parents rattled?! They are the ones who’ve put these little ones through torture of pandemic, which doesn’t affect them a single bit.
Oh no! And Gen Z is concerned about the rights of their *whispers* minority/poor/queer friends. And Millennials want balance between their work and home life and less debt. What IS this world coming to?
Jail for this headline
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Okay enough is enough. I'm suppose to be upset that a generation of children are sanitary Pre pandemic my kids would have convos with their class mates about nasty conditions in school and them letting sick kids back in classes after seeing the nurse. Maybe we should listen.
This pandemic is a golden opportunity to prepare yourselves for a biological warfare, warfare that ‘communist’ China would win easily at this point. Be sure that 'Communist' China is laughing at how fast the U.S. is shrinking and sinking.
Hygiene is bad?
horrible
well thats the parents fault for teaching their kids to fear a virus that statistically wont hurt them
DougJBalloon ... aghhhhh!!
I'm speechless seeing myself having my first paycheck after I have been screwed so many times, may God Almighty 🙏 bless you and your team Lisattownnsend
thanks
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My 20 months old don't want to go near any ppl, including other kids. Not sure, how to make him behave normal.
Only if your parents are psychos!! The rest of us know the risk to kids and act accordingly. COVIDIDIOTS COVID19
Sending tweets to 18 month olds in the first person is peak commercial cringe.
Sanitizer ever so often. Mask when leaving the house. Bathing after every outing. But they don't know better.
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