Because children are developing at a mad rate, and a year of their time might be all of it. If you are 50, one year is a fiftieth of your life. If you are two, one year is half of it. Suppose in half your life you never saw friends or family except at a distance and covered with a mask. All that sensory experience didn't happen to add to your development. And in that half of your life, everyone around you was afraid of something you couldn't understand. Soon you would withdraw to protect yourself.
Because children are developing at a mad rate, and a year of their time might be all of it. If you are 50, one year is a fiftieth of your life. If you are two, one year is half of it. Suppose in half your life you never saw friends or family except at a distance and covered with a mask. All that sensory experience didn't happen to add to your development. And in that half of your life, everyone around you was afraid of something you couldn't understand. Soon you would withdraw to protect yourself.
I’ve thought this same thing, but you describe it so eloquently. It’s infuriating