AMEN!, Steve. It has been written the LORD never gives us more than we can handle. If THIS is what he has given this generation .... draw your own conclusions.
And even now it hasn't crossed that line. Heck, I remember being so poor I held my poop until I got to work to cut my TP budget.
Just give them all a trophy, a box of crayons and tell them they are in a safe space.
Mine never had these luxuries. Pre cell phones/computers. We didn’t even have a landline. Wanted what I couldn’t afford, go mow yards. Days food didn’t stretch to 3. I went hungry so growing boys had a hot dog & mac in cheese.
My eldest will soon be 50, youngest 40. Eldest makes his HS Senior work, pay own cell and car ins on a 30 yr old hand me down car. Youngest has a 2 1/2 yr old to provide for.
What are you afraid of? Sit them down, make them pay attention to current events and maybe they’ll learn something new.
I caught my kid last night cruising Free Republic. She’s not quite a kid, she’s 22. I encouraged her to create an account. I’m not sure if I want know her online identity. She can probably identify my posts, if she strips away my sometimes semi-foul language, which I do not use in front of her.
I have a college senior and two high schoolers. I think it’s OK to allow some disappointment about the missed HS graduations, proms, field trips, and spring sports.
But yes this should help a generation learn some resiliency. And we now will have a generation of preppers, who will always keep TP and rice on hand, and who will have a new appreciation for independence, closed borders, family, home schooling, and home cooking. Conservatism.
We are (so far, not stir crazy yet) enjoying the homeschooling, sleeping in, and family time. My husband and I are blessed and lucky enough to both have jobs (secure so far) that easily can be (and now are) 100% telework.
I’m hoping to be part of the 30% that doesn’t get the virus—I haven’t left the house since Sat and don’t plan to for a long time, regardless of what the gov’t says.
Right on.
I was on the phone with my mom yesterday and told her that one of the cool benefits will be millennial types figuring out what a screwdriver is used for because they can no longer call a guy to do the simple stuff.
At the end of the day, most household repairs, even major ones are pretty easy. I learned that when I tore all the plumbing out of my first house and replaced it, after teaching myself to sweat copper pipe the night before.
And when you lose your job?
Look, I have been tracking this since December. Been mocked here, called a fool, and hated.
But at some point we have to do a serious calculation if we, as a nation, can survive a total shutdown as a civilization.
I am not sure we can.
Before social media, maybe you would have griped about something to your spouse, your neighbor, your best friend ... and they would have said, “Yeah, it’s too bad, but that’s life!” and you soldier on.
Now, everyone gets to the be the tragic hero or heroine of their own reality-show psychodrama. Everyone pretends to believe everyone else’s sob story, pretends to sympathize with their neediness, and then seeks to explain why *their* situation is much, much worse.
Read a book. Clean your closets. Go outside. Phone your church and find out if anyone needs rent money or groceries. Call your mother.
We can't even stop the one that HAS already killed over 61,000,000 future Americans!!