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Please just stop it!
Not my word,s but far more eloquently than I could say it.
Others have said it and I can’t help but reinforce. If you have filled your car with a month’s worth of food and supplies (unnecessary), what happens to my grandparents who get a bus once a week to the shops to pick up only what they can carry? (Yes I could take them supplies but only if I am well). What happens to the family down the street who live pay to pay and can’t spend hundreds in one go? What are you teaching your children?
This week I would much rather my kids had to eat something they hate but we happen to have in the house, then to learn from my behaviour that our family is so much more important than everyone else. Now is a great time to teach our kids they are part of a much bigger picture. Talk about the bigger picture and the consequences of our actions for others. Take a moment to think about those consequences and the chain of impacts. Calm and care. Calm and care. Let’s look back and be proud of the way we made the difficult and unpopular decisions, cancelled fun events, stayed home even when it is boring and lonely and frustrating, listened only to expert advice with evidence behind it (Government Health websites), looked after our most vulnerable, kept our shopping normal and calm, washed our hands, and published nice flatish curves of infection compared to other countries. If you don’t understand the importance of flattening the curve through using our collective and individual responsibilities then educate yourself. We all love someone who is elderly, immune compromised, or is a health care worker under the pump and we do this for them. We do this to ensure there is a bed and surgeon available if someone we love has a terrible accident this year.
Children will look to adults to know how to feel and act at this time - will they be flippant and all about me (I won’t get really sick so why should I care, it’s only a flu, what’s the fuss?); will they panic and show signs of anxiety? Will they be calm, learning, caring, and looking to the future, basing their understandings on evidence? As a parent the instinct to look after our own is strong I know...... but remember we are raising our future leaders here, this is a long game we’re in together. I’m looking forward to the collective group hug of congratulations when things settle in the future. For now, I’m keeping my distance in body, but not in heart.
Not my word,s but far more eloquently than I could say it.
Others have said it and I can’t help but reinforce. If you have filled your car with a month’s worth of food and supplies (unnecessary), what happens to my grandparents who get a bus once a week to the shops to pick up only what they can carry? (Yes I could take them supplies but only if I am well). What happens to the family down the street who live pay to pay and can’t spend hundreds in one go? What are you teaching your children?
This week I would much rather my kids had to eat something they hate but we happen to have in the house, then to learn from my behaviour that our family is so much more important than everyone else. Now is a great time to teach our kids they are part of a much bigger picture. Talk about the bigger picture and the consequences of our actions for others. Take a moment to think about those consequences and the chain of impacts. Calm and care. Calm and care. Let’s look back and be proud of the way we made the difficult and unpopular decisions, cancelled fun events, stayed home even when it is boring and lonely and frustrating, listened only to expert advice with evidence behind it (Government Health websites), looked after our most vulnerable, kept our shopping normal and calm, washed our hands, and published nice flatish curves of infection compared to other countries. If you don’t understand the importance of flattening the curve through using our collective and individual responsibilities then educate yourself. We all love someone who is elderly, immune compromised, or is a health care worker under the pump and we do this for them. We do this to ensure there is a bed and surgeon available if someone we love has a terrible accident this year.
Children will look to adults to know how to feel and act at this time - will they be flippant and all about me (I won’t get really sick so why should I care, it’s only a flu, what’s the fuss?); will they panic and show signs of anxiety? Will they be calm, learning, caring, and looking to the future, basing their understandings on evidence? As a parent the instinct to look after our own is strong I know...... but remember we are raising our future leaders here, this is a long game we’re in together. I’m looking forward to the collective group hug of congratulations when things settle in the future. For now, I’m keeping my distance in body, but not in heart.