I’m not surprised to read this!

For me im living in QLD but my husband passed away just as covid was ramping up and we managed to have his funeral and then we were in lock down. I went from being so busy taking my husband to chemo and for blood transfusions and then caring for him 24/7 while at home to suddenly he wasnt here any more and I was not allowed to leave the house so i was here alone. It was a really rough time.

I am sath mum so lockdown wasn’t bad -normal days but for those who work it was difficult.

This honestly doesn’t surprise me! It was difficult for me and I’m sure many out there had much more on their plate then me!

Lockdown was horrific, particularly when we didn’t even have childcare available. I definitely agree it impacts on Mums more (from my experience anyway) plus it’s our natural instinct to step in and take on the mental load more

I agree! I work from home 3 days a week and make sure I venture out on those 2 other days for appointments etc. I found everyone in my space and I could not get away from anyone. My life was most impacted, I believe.

Lockdowns killed my self esteem and my personal space!

Sure, my husband continued working as usual and I stayed home with the kids trying to do home learning. I’ve 2 kids with special needs and my youngest was hard to motivate. It was dramas. I’m a mum, not a teacher

Lockdown affected many people. We are mainly social beings, hence the hard time to isolate.

As a mum I found it hard to explain to my youngest why we needed to stay home and no socialise.

When the media promotes the you get covid you die message, when you get delta that’s what your child thinks, their mum is going to die

This has been the worst couple of years of my life.

Though I am very proud of my youngest and her resilience and positivity when I’ve had the dreaded virus twice in 6 months and she’s thriving. I’m not sure that we will have a “normal” life but I am trying to keep it as normal as possible

Lockdowns sucked! Hubby didn’t notice much as he still worked in person and drove more than 5km. Biggest thing for him was we couldn’t see others/have them over where as I struggled with the kids big time with online learning and having people home all the time.

I’m married with 4 kids under 15 and I actually didn’t mind lockdown. It was quite nice to be able to focus on my own little family without worrying about outside obligations and expectations for a while.

I can see that, with the mental load already on mums this makes sense

I think thats just a given! Mums already do so much

Honestly I took advantage of the lockdowns to try spend more quality time with my kids. Besides that I’m sure the lockdowns affected everyone’s mental health in some way.

I think it would depend on where you live in the city or country. In the country areas you have more room to move around on your property but in the city your basically inside the home. Hopefully we have all learned what we can and can’t do and will remember this in case it happens again in the future

Unfortunately because of cost of living usually both parents have to work, rather than previous traditions of the mum staying at home to raise the children. I think because of this, mums have had to sacrifice staying home and raising their children and have been set in a working family routine, but being locked down has taken away the breaks in parenting they would usually have, and access to their independent incomes from working relying on the working parents income. I think the mums would be struggling to cope at home with their children, as it is more hands on and mentally draining 24/7 than if the kids had been at school.

Why am I not surprised? Throughout the ages the nurturing has always been left to the women. Ans so thus it has happened yet again. I mainly feel sorry for the children this time around as they have never learned the subtle art of being grown up and aware of what happens.

“………………..there was no evidence of mental health impacts for teens aged between 15 and 19 years.”
Mmmmmm I had two in this age group and I beg to differ with the findings in this research.

I so wholeheartedly agree with that

Yep definitely agree while in lockdown both my partner and I worked and guess who had to take care of the kids and the house and work?!?! Me the mum!!! It wasn’t a happy time at all absolutely draining and lots of fricken caused.