My friends granddaughter called today.

[Texaswitchy]

She was crying.

She is ten years old so she understands what is going on.

She wants the normal days back

To go back to school and be with her friends.

She wants to be with her Grandma.

Damn, after the call she had me in tears.

Fuck Trump and all those who voted for him.

[lunatica]

1. This experience will be something she's old enough to remember

She’ll tell her children about it and her peers will recall it just like us oldsters remember the 60s and JFK’s assassination and MLK Jr. and the women’s movement.

Her entire generation has this in common and it will mold them.

[Texaswitchy]

2. O yes.

I remember the cuban missle crisis.

Thought we were all going to die.

These kids will remember

.

[BittyJenkins]

3. I so understand

My grand boy is six. My girl is in charge of the emergency services for our county. Last week when he was with his babysitter he tried to run away. He wanted to run away with his three year old brother. He had all his special things in his backpack. His destination was our house and a donut shop. He wanted to buy his brother a donut. Just made me cry big time. I want to hug him.

[Texaswitchy]

5. Sweet kid.

[frazzled]

4. In all honesty

The reason she can’t go to school or see grandma is because of COVID-19. Yes, he didn’t react quickly enough (or at all), but neither did any of the states six weeks ago. The virus was going to come here anyway, and people in general have not responded to mere suggestions to distance themselves and follow protocols.

Many states have now closed schools and restaurants and non-essential workplaces. We should have done it earlier. But it was always in the stars that grandparents should not expose themselves, and that crowded places with shared bathrooms like schools could be potential breeding grounds.

I haven’t seen my four young granddaughters in almost a month now. But we FaceTime or Skype with them several times each week, and try not to mention the pandemic or any downer issues at all. We read them stories, let them show us the pictures they’ve drawn, make jokes, etc. Today we ate lunch together online, and jokingly pretended to pass food through the screen.

It’s up to us adults to help the kids get through this without fear or disappointment. And given the insensitivity of the federal government, the whole damn mess is up to us. Each of us.

[Texaswitchy]

6. She just wants to hug her grandmother.

My friend had heart surgery.

She getting better but she cannot be with her kid and his family.

That is why I with her

[frazzled]

8. That's tough, but all I was trying to say,

however badly, is that we need to find ways to cheer these kids up, to make it bearable for them, and give them hope that they’ll be able to hug their grandparents and see their friends again. Empathize with their sadness, but don’t leave it at that. They need to be diverted into happier, more hopeful paths.

Kids pick up on adults’ worries and fears and anger and distress. We need to find solutions for them, like suggesting writing a nice card or sending a photo hug to grandma (and emphasizing how happy she would be to get it), arranging a party with their friends on Zoom, or baking treats with them.

[Texaswitchy]

9. I held it together until she hung up.

Yeah we it need to it

The granddaughter is really close to her grandmother


She is scared to.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. I can hardly wait for

the chance to join in on obliterating this supreme asshole, his entire administration and all of the Republican Party members.....

[tosh]

11. Amen to that! N/t

[DENVERPOPS]

12. Laugh at this, you will

My wife saw some strange light in the night sky and asked me to come and tell her what it is.
I looked and told her I thought it was Venus in the winter western sky.

she said: "shit, I was in hopes that it was a UFO from somewhere in the universe and that they have been watching the planet earth, and have come down to suck up all the assholes in the world"

[tosh]

13. Laugh, yes, but

I join in her disappointment. Darn!