by The first son of Kourtney Marsh, Jayce, was born in January 2020. Then the world was closed.
As if there was not enough to worry as a first mother, the first year of the life of Marsh’s son was also the amount of the COVID-19 Pandemie, with lockdowns, mask mandates and more. If Covid -Casus would fall into their home town of Atlanta, Marsh Jayce would register in childcare, hoping to give him some appearance of normal socialization. But then the infection figures would shoot again, the childcare facilities would close and Jayce would be home with her again. Marsh was worried that her son would be shy or struggles socially because he had had so little interaction with other children in the midst of the pandemic. But by the time he turned 3, limitations were lifted and Jayce was able to spend some time in an early kindergarten. “It was as if this is what he waited for,” Marsh tells Yahoo. “He is an extrovert, he likes to run wild, and I notice that this is a common between all Covid babies.”
Other parents of Covid -Babies, born in 2020, have also noticed ‘wild’ tendencies. Some went so far when they call their children – their own children! – Wild. Others describe them as bossy or fearlessly independent. One viral meme depicted the incoming kindergarten class as a bunch of horrific characters: Pennywise, Jason, Freddy Kreuder, The Scream. Marsh itself has restored the post on Tiktok. “I think it will be a difficult year for kindergarten teachers,” says Marsh, himself a former kindergarten teacher. “These children are more than just talkative or extrovert – they have all this energy that bounces around.” Jayce’s first day of kindergarten was August 4, 2025. “He said,” It will be fine, Mom, “and he jumped out of that car and he didn’t look back,” says Marsh. “All these children just live without regret.”
While these Covid babies go into a structured classroom for the first time, some parents warn teachers to brace themselves – but are their children really so different? This is what we have learned.
COVID Babies
There were a few possible worries. Masks and Lockdowns can mean that babies born in the first year of the Pandemie would not see so many people and full faces, which means that their psychological development and the ability to learn to learn to hinder social signals. In addition, the pandemic stress of mothers during pregnancy can influence the developing fetus, and infection with the new coronavirus could possibly harm the baby in the womb. Dr. Sarah Mulkey, a prenatal and neonatal neurologist in the Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, examines both closely. “For the most part, we see that some studies show mild development delays … and some studies that show that there is really no difference between these children and other children,” Mulkey tells Yahoo.
Babies born at the height of the Pandemie seem to have avoided the worst possible results, but that does not mean that there were no effects. Mulkey estimates that about 20% of the children born of mothers who had COVID during pregnancy showed a certain degree of developmental delays in their fine motorcycle or language skills aged 2 or 3. “We can expect that they would be a bit shy, some more difficulty making friends in the beginning and perhaps not so strong in their communication skills skills skills But in general the effects seem to be quite mild.
Regarding their potential to be small horrors in kindergarten classroom? “The short answer is that, although that is really funny, there is not really much scientific basis for it [the notion that] There is a generation of wild children on their way to kindergarten, ”says Sara Johnson, a pediatric professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says Yahoo. Just like Mulkey, Johnson followed children who were born during the pandemic, in a certain way, they have the longest time.
Wilde, bossy extrovert people: what is behind an unexpected personality trend?
As Johnson said, there has been no major study of today’s 5-year-olds to establish that they are indeed more independent and extrovert; It is just something that families have observed in their own children and discussed on social media.
Still, “I don’t doubt the observations of the parents,” says Johnson. It’s just difficult to Why And to get rid of other variables. Parents who could work from home during the pandemic may have just had more time to keep an eye on their children. It may also have to do with birth order. “But there could be something,” says Johnson. “It is possible that it is always possible that care providers and brothers and sisters can enrich their vocabulary” and can lead to more trust and extraversion, she adds. “It would be great if parents were right, and this is a generation of children who are just ready to get it done – I would love that.”
That is what Marsh thinks, and she has her own theories about why – and which problems are still for the incoming class of toddlers and their teachers. Her son does not remember his first years at home with his mother, but she does. During the first two years of Jayce’s life, Marsh worked from home, like so many other parents. If she was busy and he was nagging for something, she often had to admit to keep her focus. “You take all these parents who only try to survive and just convey a patch about what the problem is, and then you put all that in a classroom you have problems on your hands,” says Marsh. She suspects that her son and other children of his age “just live without regret”, partly because they are “sheltered because parents will give more grace than teachers.”
Marsh is not worried that her son makes friends at school. She says that Jayce is more than ready to break out of his Covid bubble and was already considered by his teacher pre-veloc school as an “extrovert” (and that doesn’t just seem to be a product of growing up in the Marsh family; Jayce’s 2-year-old sister is shy). Marsh is simply mildly concerned about Jayce’s willingness to sit still, listen and share. “He is a bit territorial,” says Marsh. At home she reads Jayce books like The rainbow fish To teach him about kindness and share and recommends that their Covid children are too used to the Roost to do the same. “When it comes to sharing and things like that you would learn in a public classroom, I feel that our Covid babies are missing that,” she says. “So I am about to continue and remove the wish list from his kindergarten so that I can get to her good side,” Marsh jokes.
As far as Jayce is concerned, he was full to go to kindergarten, even before his first day. “He was very excited, not at all nervous, only bubbles and ready to go to school,” says Marsh. In the open house of his kindergarten, Jayce said to his mother: “You can leave me here and come back tomorrow,” she says. “He is just ready to explore.”
