MOMS FIGHT BACK AGAINST ‘NEW NORMAL’

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Moms of elementary school kids have a round table discussion on the psychological effects of their children wearing masks all day at school. Is an epidemic of childhood PTSD, or social anxiety disorders, on the horizon? Then, Catharine Layton, the parent of a special needs child, and Psychiatrist Dr. Stefani Reinold, MPH, join Del for this important discussion.

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0:00.0	What about our children that are having to wear a mask?
0:03.5	How do you explain it to them?
0:04.4	How healthy is it that I'm touching it?
0:06.4	What about the mental anguish?
0:08.1	They're not seeing each other's smiles.
0:10.5	Are they allowed to hug?
0:11.6	What is happening to love and tenderness and kindness
0:15.6	inside of schools?
0:16.6	These are all the questions that were addressed.
0:18.8	When we sat a few mothers down that here in Texas,
0:21.7	there's a real debate going on.
0:23.2	We live really near Austin right now.
0:25.0	Austin is really pushing a lot of mandates
0:28.2	and then outside of Austin.
0:29.7	You get a different perspective.
0:31.4	Some of it's political, some of it's logical and reasonable.
0:34.6	All of it came up in this conversation.
0:36.6	Take a look at this.
0:41.5	So we all get together.
0:42.5	We fought to get our kids back in school.
0:44.3	And here we are.
0:45.0	We find ourselves with our little ones
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