Quarantine of the Day
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- nocomply4
I'm in a very similar situation to mg33.
My wife and I run a web design and digital communication business together. We've got a 5-year-old who is scheduled to start kindergarten in the fall, and a 2.5 year old who was going to an in-home day care.
Now we're trying to run a full-time WFH business while simultaneously doing 24/7 child care.
It doesn't work.
We can't work at the pace we used to, which is ultimately going to affect our bottom line. Then there's also the bigger question of will we even be able to sign up new work in this pandemic?
The uncertainty there is a significant stress, for sure. We're lucky that we've got projects to work on right now, who knows what 1, 3, 6 months out holds?
When I think about how much it sucks for my wife and I as parents, I think about our 5-year-old and how it sucks for him even worse. It's depressing. He should be free, not on lockdown. He's an extrovert. He absolutely needs socialization and time with his friends to thrive, and he's not getting it.
There have been so many challenges and tough days, but I feel bad complaining when we're all still healthy, we have a roof over our heads, and we have enough food to eat.
There have been a couple of silver linings though. The biggest one is how great of friends our boys have become. In our previous lives they spent their days apart since they couldn't go to the same school. Now they're together all day, every day and they're totally best friends. Our 2.5 year old has learned SO MUCH from his older brother in the past 6 weeks. He's like a totally new person with all his new words and mannerisms. It warms my heart. But it's seriously all I've got right now. And every parent knows that you also need time away from your kids to be at your best, which we're obviously not getting.
- Hang in there, your kids may well remember this fondly as a good time with familyGnash
- Hang in there buddy, mg33 and the rest of the QBN parents here. I can’t begin to imagine what your’e all going through.Ramanisky2
- Trying to count my blessings every day. :)mg33
- Thanks all!nocomply
- Hang in there. A whole generation of children are going to have this on them forever.monospaced