by Tobin Walsh
Day 2 Have you allowed yourself to peek over the COVID mountaintop? I have. More importantly, what would you see? As I peered over, I was sitting at an outdoor bar, having a cold beer next to my wife, listening Continue reading Coved In: Tales of a Family Hunkering Down during COVID – Week 3
Day 5 Why aren’t activities being rescheduled? It is time for activities to be put back on the calendar. I need the optimism. I want my kids to see something worthy of anticipating – even if their hope, in the Continue reading Coved In: Tales of a family hunkering down during COVID – Week 2
Day 3 Have you broken down yet? I am standing in the checkout line yesterday during an essential trip the grocery store with my gallon of skim milk and dozen eggs when I feel it – a sudden, heightened sense Continue reading Coved In: Tales of a Family Hunkering Down during COVID – Week 2
Day 1 Should I pay for child care, soccer or dance classes if they aren’t happening? We’re all trying to support small, local restaurants via take-out orders. That’s been an easy financial decision even though times are tight. Other financial Continue reading Coved In: Tales of a family hunkering down during COVID – Week 2
The job of the teachers at my kids’ school to ramp up online classes was nothing short of miraculous. It is remarkable that, in less than a week, all of my children’s assignments were online, video lectures were uploaded and Continue reading Does COVID Have Teachers Walking Themselves to the Unemployment Line?
Day 3 All Parents Suck at Home Schooling Far too many parents dot my social media accounts beating themselves up over their handling of educating their kids during the crisis. There seem to be a few common themes: -“My kid’s Continue reading Coved In: Tales of a Family Hunkering Down during COVID
Day 2 Will (insert activity) be cancelled, Dad? As the return to school gets further delayed (we are now formally closed until the end of April), my kids are starting to see the activities they looked forward to either hanging Continue reading Coved In: Tales of a Family Hunkering Down during COVID
Day 1 Not Prepared for Crisis School As the third week at home with my kids (ages 14, 12, 10, 6 and 4) begins, we collided head-on into the “new normal” we thought we’d readied ourselves for over the prior Continue reading Coved In: Tales of a Family Hunkered Down during COVID
The headlines surrounding Lori Loughlin’s high profile arrest for her role in a nationwide college admissions scheme are impossible to ignore. Details are salacious and, for “normal Joe’s” like me, the estimates of the family’s bribes to ensure admission for Continue reading Are your kids’ dreams worth $4,000?
About a month ago, an article about CNN’s Anthony Bourdain appeared on my social media feed. And, while I can’t remember who posted it or the exact words they used to draw me in, I took an interest in reading Continue reading The Last Refuge of the Parenting Misfits