Chapter 15: Social Isolation While Self-Isolating

The good news is that parenting always carries an element of the unexpected, so pandemic parenting did not catch me entirely unaware. However, in our household, like all those with children, there are big differences in the routines, affect, and balance of needs that we must work to meet on a daily basis.

The hardest part for me was not knowing what to tell my kids about when we can go back to normal, and worrying that we won’t know how to do that once the opportunity is available to us again. In a house where one of the adults has bad asthma that has been worsened by local allergens (in a place we are still new to discovering), the focus on minimizing risk and exposure has been central.