Freedom!
It happened!
Last night our kids reached their limit.
It was a bona fide meltdown with tears, anger, frustration, finger-pointing, and screaming.
After 99 days they exploded. We need our friends, we need school, we need FREEDOM!
Freedom???
But wait, “we can go anywhere we want, we just have to keep our distance.”
NO! We can’t do anything we want because I want to see my friends!!!!
Maybe you’ve experienced something similar already in your household, but I am surprised it took so long for the kids to get there. They are more resilient than us adults for sure because internally I got there 30 days ago.
But a meltdown is a horrible thing to waste so this is our reflection: Freedom is the ability to make a choice, not the number of choices available.
We can choose to get angry and frustrated and blame the coronavirus for disrupting our lives.
Or, we can look around and recognize just how many choices we still have.
What to eat, what to learn, who to talk with, what to say, what to stand for, and what to get angry about.
We didn’t try to solve their anger, we just listened.
That is what we chose.
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