The COVID experience was shitty for everyone, but especially so for children.
I think of it as a ratio thing where for a 50yr old getting through it was only 1:16 of their life experience of bizarre donation of their life to social confinement, but for a 12yr old it was 1:4 & to a 6yr old it was 1:2, etc…
Times where weird enough for kids in this day and age of being micromanaged by their parents before COVID of not roaming their physical world freely to explore and learn their own boundaries….yet mixed into the internet exposing them to every weird-ass deviancy without real physical interaction from their peers while navigating it….& most children tied to a cell/smart phone constantly from an early early age…& then we locked them down for the better part of three years from direct personal social interactions (even school) to live virtually while the adults just tried to get through it themselves. Damn….
It’s a triumph of the human spirit that kids aren’t coming out the other end of this COVID thing as a generation of complete social midgets. It’s strange times (but aren’t they all, I guess, in their own way) that they’re living in. This Scouts Camp giving them a partial reintroduction back into the physically social world of in-person interaction sounds like a great thing.
