Coronavirus Through a Child’s Eyes - Part 3

🦠 Coronavirus through a child’s eyes. 🦠

Shawn: 12 years old (Answers typed verbatim) 

1. What is the Coronavirus?
It is a sickness

2. Who is the president?
Donald Trump

3. How many days have we been in quarantine?
I don't know

4. Do you want to go back to school?
I don't want to go back to school

5. Who is the first person you are going to hug when social distancing is over?
Jack

6. Where is the first place you want to go when quarantine is over?
Maybe a road trip

7. What do you think we can do to get rid of the Coronavirus?
We stay away from other people

8. Is Mom a good teacher?
Yes. You guys help me a lot

9. How did the Coronavirus start?
I don't know

10. Are you enjoying the lock-down?
Yes. because I like being home and sleeping in

Conversations With 12 Year Olds

My kid: “Mrs. T is going to have a child.”

Me: “Oh, really? She’s pregnant?”

My kid: “I don’t know...I guess? I didn’t even know she was pregnant.”

Me: “When is she due? Over the summer or next fall?”

My kid: “She’s probably having it this week.”

Me: “This week?! And you didn’t know?! Are you sure?”

My kid: “I don’t know! Well, what do you expect? I’m not a female. I don’t know these things!”

This is what conversations with my 12 year olds are like now.

Whatever Gets You Moving, Kid

Shawn has been really sick over the last two weeks, which has left him pretty weak. He was spending a lot of time in bed. Couple that with the fact that he apparently doesn't like to cough, even when he needs to, and we've been a bit concerned about this crud he has morphing into pneumonia. In an effort to get him up and moving, we've tried everything we could think of doing.

Neither of us expected this exchange to be the one thing that motivated him...

Me: Shawn. Get in here! Lawrence is on TV!

Shawn: (lots of movement happening in his room)

Isaac: No...that's not going to bring him in here, is it?

Shawn (in the hallway): What a minute!

Me: Here he is, Shawn. Better hurry!

Shawn: There he is! It's Lawrence O'Donnell! Mom, I sure do like his tie.

Isaac: (shaking his head) I don't believe it.

So there you have it, folks. Want to get your sick kid up out of bed? Put on the news and he'll come running. LOL