As parents, we are watching our children struggle while we struggle with them. Our children are having a hard time paying attention, finding assignments, completing them, and turning them in via virtual learning.
Through unstructured play kids can explore in ways we couldn’t have predicted or facilitated and that is a wonderful gift.
While many things with the novel Coronavirus have been rough and even just plain awful, the silver linings are there, and telehealth access is a big one for my family.
2020 has been the most interesting year...on several different levels. Not only are we still battling a pandemic but it is also an election year.
I don’t have a resolution for this new year because there’s not a word for what I’m feeling. It’s more like a vague sense of expectation...
As a world, we are all suffering. We all feel the limits and the fatigue. For many of us, the mental turns into physical fatigue...
These days many are with us, staying home almost entirely, but unlike many, this isn’t our first go-round with sheltering in place. When my son had leukemia we rode out much of his time in treatment by staying at home to keep him safe, and then, like now, concern for the well-being of our family in every way was a source of stress.
Parenting is the most difficult job I have ever had. It’s also the most rewarding. But it’s also challenging and exhausting.
The health department did not call until three days after Charlie’s teacher’s initial diagnosis. That is 72 hours of his COVID exposure.
We’re staying home for the holidays...It’s not the first time we’ve made that choice, but instead of doing it because we’re sick, we’re doing it to stay healthy.
