Post-election, the (liberal) moms are not OK — and it’s hurting their kids

The moms are not OK.

To beryllium much specific, nan wide moms are not OK.

Here’s a sampling of social-media posts I’ve seen since nan re-election of President Donald Trump.

“My six-year-old boy kept hugging maine this greeting and saying ‘don’t interest mama, I won’t fto him wounded you.’ ”

“I told my 3yo to ne'er person kids… I’ve been sobbing since I woke up.”

“I frightened my mediocre 1-year-old boy because I was crying truthful hard.”

“My 10-year-old collapsed down crying this greeting saying ‘mommy now we’re going to dice I’m worried.’ [I told her] to merge pinch each nan kids that wanted Harris to win.” 

On X, wide commentator Wajahat Ali posted, “My 8-year-old woman conscionable asked me, ‘Baba, do we person to move? Trump doesn’t for illustration us.’”  

These are existent people, and unfortunately, existent parents, who person decided to inflict terrible affectional distress upon their children arsenic immoderate benignant of governmental virtual signal. 

For anyone connected societal media, you’ve been deluged pinch these overwrought posts since President Donald Trump bested Vice President Kamala Harris.

I’ve moreover seen these absurd posts successful groups astir backyard chickens. Not kidding: One female bemoaned, “I conscionable want to spell location and hide pinch my chickens.” 

Not truthful strangely, this affectional instability ne'er manifested successful 2020 erstwhile Trump lost; nan immense mostly of mundane Americans conscionable moved connected pinch their lives.

But it’s particularly odious to spot this benignant of panic posturing from mothers and fathers, showcasing their children’s fears and anxieties astir nan adjacent president.

These parents are weaponizing nan condolences they themselves sowed into their ain children, claiming that personification other caused this benignant of fearfulness for their kids. 

Let’s beryllium honest: Liberal parents planted and cultivated that fear, not Donald Trump, nor his voters.

The parents, and nan parents alone, are responsible for really these frightened children now feel.

All of nan grown-ups posting astir really their kids are crying and frightened are revealing nan kinds of parents they themselves are.

Hint: They aren’t nan bully guys they deliberation they are. 

Observing nan arena connected her ain social-media feed, Emily Rose Chadwick, laminitis of nan nonprofit Mama Wilder Foundation, posted, “If your young children are successful tears complete nan predetermination results, it’s because you’re nan benignant of genitor who traumatizes your kids to consciousness bully astir your governmental choices.”

What are these wide parents acrophobic of, anyway?

That Trump will adjacent nan schools aliases contradict basal services to abnormal children?

I person to wonder: Where was nan outrage from these aforesaid liberals connected nan fainting couches erstwhile progressive teachers unions and their Democratic supporters closed schools for complete a twelvemonth and a half successful bluish areas, denying children nan correct to virtually show their faces successful public, play connected a playground, fto unsocial get an education? 

They don’t attraction astir nan well-being of children.

If they did, they wouldn’t beryllium aligning themselves pinch nan aforesaid statement that courts and does nan bidding for teachers unions.

They would beryllium backing politicians who support schoolhouse choice to thief kids get retired of failing schools, earlier different arbitrary determination is made to adjacent them again for months astatine a clip truthful teachers tin “work from home” from a formation successful Puerto Rico. 

To beryllium fair, nan hysterics aren’t conscionable a merchandise of narcissism and self-absorbed parents.

There whitethorn beryllium a grade of actual intelligence unwellness connected nan portion of immoderate parents, arsenic well.

A therapist is seeing patients arsenic young arsenic 10 consumed pinch worry complete nan predetermination showing up successful her office.

She shared pinch me, “The parents are not mentally good themselves. I spot it arsenic performative emotionality but immoderate of it is existent affectional instability.”

Instead of moving done their ain affectional distress, they inflicted it connected their children.

It is nan eventual betrayal of our astir ineffable work to our children to intentionally harm them, yet that is what these parents are doing.

It is our occupation arsenic a genitor to raise patient children; instead, these parents are passing connected their anxieties and intelligence unwellness for illustration a badge of honor. 

If your kids are losing it post-election, that’s not immoderate denotation that your kid is an insightful governmental commentator, it’s a motion you arsenic a genitor person done thing profoundly incorrect to your ain child. 

Bethany Mandel is co-author of “Stolen Youth” and a home-schooling mother of six successful greater Washington, DC.