Self-reported anxiety is rising across the country. Sleep is restless. Showers are optional. Teenagers have gone nocturnal; toddlers verge on feral
“I don’t know what day it is any more,” Mandi Freeman, mother of five, says over the phone from Cranbrook, B.C. Weeks of refereeing screen time, supervising homework and producing meals when you can’t run to the store for tacos, have blurred together. Her kids, who range in age from 3 to 11, have watched all the Disney movies, played with all the backyard toys.
The pressure of parenting through a pandemic – especially trying to stay on top of schoolwork – brought reality “crashing down for me,” Ms. Freeman says. She recently reduced the hours of her job as a home support worker. That was hard – she started the job in December and loved it. But her partner, Bear, still works outside the home at a metal fabrication plant that’s been deemed essential.
The stress the pandemic is putting on families may be widely shared, but it’s not equally experienced. Parents grieving the death of a loved one or struggling with a job layoff will have a higher risk of chronic mental-health issues than Canadians spared these kinds of stressors, Ms. Moran says.'I feel like I am failing both my work and my child,' says Ms. Draper.
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