Sorry SS. I wouldn’t want them making health decisions. I had the talk with my husband and kids that I don’t want to be on a ventilator. All of them said I have no choice as they will choose it. Ugh!
Sorry SS. I wouldn’t want them making health decisions. I had the talk with my husband and kids that I don’t want to be on a ventilator. All of them said I have no choice as they will choose it. Ugh!
I say, take all sensible precautions. My wife and I are in our 70s, and all plans for family in-person contact are on indefinite hold. 2 people in the household, but we have a variety of ways of safely reaching out and maintaining relationships with people we know and like.
I don't expect to change the boundaries on social contact until either
-- there is a vaccine and people are taking it, or
-- the 14-day moving average number of people newly testing positive in my state declines over a 30-day interval. (I get the data daily from the website of the health department in my state, so I would not accept a suggestion that I have been duped by a media hoax.)
FWIW, there is an old song, Don't Give Up The Ship
from the film Shipmates Forever (Warren, Dubin, Beeker, 1935)
Steve: On one of our recent walks, we passed a house where there were little kids inside the house/storm door which had a tic-tac-toe grid taped out on it, and what appeared to be the grandparents outside playing with them using erasable markers. That looked like kind of a neat way to play together safely. Not perfect, but something.
Oh, good idea. Thanks, rosa! One idea we had was a treasure hunt -- mostly a riff on the Easter egg idea -- the kids would have to find things on a list we gave them (the older one could have to work a little more to find her items ). We could do that at their house or ours.
I could ask DW to drift into Pinterest to see if others have ideas, too. For me, the reality that this will not be "just a few more weeks" compels some different thoughts about how to make life more like it was (it will never again be just like it was). That grandparent-grandchild relationship is important; we want to find some way of preserving it.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
Steve, we played Hang Man with our 7 year old grandson on Face Time. He was too good on tic tac toe and we all decided to try Hang Man. I did the drawings and he guessed the words but we could have done it the other way, with a big piece of paper on the table and then we pointed the camera at it.
Yes I miss my grandsons a lot. It’s difficult. They’re 6 and 13. We have zoom meetings on Saturdays with them and our 3 grown kids and their spouses. Between us all we live in 4 different cities, 3 different states, and 2 different countries. This may be how we see each other for a long time into the future.
Thanks, Tybee. Don't know if the 4-1/2 yo is up to Hangman, but there must be some game like that we can play. Good idea!
And it might help to rig up a stand/holder for the phone/iPad (on both ends; one complication is having to have one of the parents involved because they [understandably] don't want to just hand their smartphone to their toddlers.)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
With the 4 1/2 year old, you could draw something in stages and see how quickly they can guess what you are drawing.
Like start with a circle.
Then add whiskers-- keep adding ears, etc, body, tail--til they guess cat.
But if they guess early, then keep drawing cat to show them how smart they are, that they guessed with so little information.
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