Teens go berserk at Putt Putt center

I totally agree- I weep for my FATHER, who had to DIE IN AN ICU UNIT ALONE, without any of his family there. My mother (they were married for 63 years) had to say good-bye to him when the ambulance picked him up, not knowing if she would ever get to see him again, but figuring that she probably would NOT.  Forgive my bluntness, but I don't give a shit about people who don't get to go to Disneyland or a Nascar race.  I feel horrible for MY MOTHER, who lost her life partner and now has to decide whether she has any reason to go on with her own life.

I'm with crimsoncat05

I'm living in surreal world where I wasn't able to see my grandmother in her memory care unit because of COVID. I wasn't able to talk to her on the phone because she didn't remember me. And then, when she was dying, I couldn't even don PPE to see her or be with her in her last days. I couldn't see her body, I could only go with and help pick up her ashes from the funeral home. No packing up of her room in memory care because we can't be in there. Staff packed it and sent it to storage for 90 days so that we could go through it without being exposed. So the surreal life here makes me think that she's still living at memory care and I just haven't seen her for a while, but will definitely see her at Thanksgiving or Christmas. It's a continual trauma that lives on and will continue to do so until The holidays and maybe beyond.

My last grandparent and the one I was closest to. And I'm living in bizzaro world

Your kids learn how to behave from the way you behave. You owe it to them to teach them how to cope. It may be one of the most critical lessons you ever teach.

This is ridiculous.

But I think it’s happening all over the country because we can’t live like this. People feel like caged animals. It’s causing some severe psychological issues that we will be dealing with for years to come. I’m an adult and I can’t handle it. I’m on the verge of rage and suicide constantly because I’m so incapable of handling the outlook on the current situation.

It feels like the whole country is in jail and we’re on the verge of a prison riot.

I think there's room to acknowledge the suffering of both the people who have lost loved ones during this time and those who are struggling with loss of normal daily activity. Depression, anxiety and other forms of mental illness are real, and can be even more difficult to deal with when we don't have our normal routines and support system in place.

I totally agree- I weep for my FATHER, who had to DIE IN AN ICU UNIT ALONE, without any of his family there. My mother (they were married for 63 years) had to say good-bye to him when the ambulance picked him up, not knowing if she would ever get to see him again, but figuring that she probably would NOT.  Forgive my bluntness, but I don't give a shit about people who don't get to go to Disneyland or a Nascar race.  I feel horrible for MY MOTHER, who lost her life partner and now has to decide whether she has any reason to go on with her own life.

crimsoncat05 and shevy I am very sorry for your loss. My dear friend passed away after an 8 year battle with cancer this past month and he too, was completely alone in the hospital (they changed protocols at hospitals in Texas the day before he died, which meant no visitors). His wife and 2 teen children couldn't say their goodbyes. It's devastating and my heart is broken for all of you and those like you.

myshelly I agree that you need to look into getting help if you are feeling suicidal. I'm sorry you are battling those feelings.

I normally don't post on these threads, but I can't just let this one go.

In my opinion, these children are acting just like what they are seeing play out in our society today in the US on the news, social media etc... It's an absolute shame. I'm disgusted with anyone that is throwing temper tantrums and destroying property for any reason. It's juvenile and pathetic.(Again, in my opinion and I know those don't count for crap these days). These kids obviously are not feeling "jailed". For heaven's sake, they were at the Putt Putt golf place hanging out with their friends, having fun etc... before the fireworks and this ridiculousness went down! (Ours aren't even open)! They are acting out because they see it as the "NEW NORMAL" of trying to get their way, or how to be "angry".

I wish that every person that lives in such privileged countries as ours, could go to Djibouti for one day! Go to the Orphanage where the 2 year old children that have been abandoned at the border by parents that think it's safer to leave their 2 year old alone to fend for themselves, than to live in the war torn country they are in. Where the children might have a decently safe place to be during the day at the orphanage and get a PORTION of a meal, but because of hardly any funding, they can't keep the kids there at night, so they are on the streets alone trying to stay safe and alive! 12 year old children trying to keep 2 and 3 year old children safe in abandoned buildings. This is real and this is truly heart breaking, and OUR children are destroying property and acting like criminals because of what??? Because they lost their 20.00 game of miniature golf because some other a-hole kid shot off fireworks and caused mayhem? Ya, I don't have a lot of sympathy to give. Most of us (me included) are an entitled bunch of jerks, that wouldn't know what the true meaning of surviving is if it hit us in the face. I know this is the same as saying "finish your plate, there are starving children in Africa" but I just can't wrap my head around how utterly entitled we all have become. It's like we've forgotten there are so many less fortunate people in the world, and here we are worried about such entitled things as not being able to find hand sanitizer when there are shelves and shelves of flipping bar soap in the same aisle. I don't know. I'm just disheartened by so many in our society right now. In-fighting, name calling, judging, destroying people, places and things. It's so out of hand and we see evidence in our children from this video, that it's not going to go away for a long time. No one is going to intervene in this. Some of these kids parents will be proud of them, a small few might punish them and others will coddle them and say "things will be alright" and pat them on the head and go back to doing whatever is so dang much more important than actually interacting with their children.

Sorry for the soapbox, this one just tipped me over the edge. I am truly sorry for anyone that is struggling right now. We all are having our individual struggles. I know I've got my own.

This happened in Tenn. I’m in TX.

In most of the South, almost everything is open. Water parks, mini golf, arcades, laser tag, paintball, restaurants, gyms. Kids’ sports, cheer gyms, gymnastics gyms.

It’s a real weird juxtaposition of everything is open, but leaders are saying we should stay home, while at the same time saying but we aren’t going to shut anything down again.