Earlier this week, our neighbor Lea sent me a survey via text message. She has a master’s degree in public health from Yale and teaches classes titled No Drama Discipline, The Adolescent Brain and other intimidating titles. We’re still paying penance for the great chicken incident of 2019 so I wanted to provide a thoughtful answer.
The text said: I’m taking a poll… Pandemic parenting is _________ (fill in the blank).
I thought about it all night. I asked some work colleagues the following day. All kinds of inappropriate answers crossed my mind. Someone offered up that it is blank. A big fat, black hole of blanking chaos. Finally, I went with:
Pandemic parenting is a three grown-up job.