The Pandemic Is Not The Problem
Episode description
No Way To Grow Up. A great article written in a newsletter by David Leonhardt for The New York Times. The first sentence states: American children are starting 2022 in crisis. Well, American children in every generation have always had some type of crisis. Addiction, bullying, suicidal ideation, depression back in the sixties we had the crisis of academics when Russia put a man in orbit before the United States. As a boy my crisis was managing the alcoholism and PTSD that my father brought home with him from World War Two, along with malaria and TB. The article speaks for itself but as adults we have to grow up emotionally and communicate to our children that they will be okay and let them know that resiliency is the word of the day and everyone can and will bounce back. The Pandemic truly is not the problem. Lack of resiliency might be; adult guidance, wisdom, and leadership have to improve if our children are going to experience the physical, mental, and emotional growth needed for lifelong success.