Mark Twain hit the proverbial nail on the head when he said, “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
I relate to this!
Today's topic: Explain Covid19 Pandemic to a five years old.
What I said:
Literally telling the story of explaining to our child about Covid19. The only high point in the speech was using the word of the day, commiserate.
What I came up with later:
How do you explain COVID-19 pandemic to a child, without freaking her out of day to day things: like opening a door, pushing an elevator button, playing in the park, meeting up with friends.
First approach: don't explain and hope it will go away soon. That doesn't work. Why? Because the damn thing doesn't go away!
Second approach: google, Facebook, twitter: how other parents are telling their kids.
Third approach: channel out the fear of unknown and calmly say, hey kiddo for a while we just need to stay low, keep to ourselves and find new ways to learn, and play. It's gonna be fun, because we haven't done it before.
