I was able to take a bit of time for myself today and join a group chat of moms. While my husband worked and my son watched a couple episodes of Mister Roger's Neighborhood, I chatted with friends.
It was so good to talk about the difficulties of parenting during a quarantine, especially admitting that no one knows how to do it! Emotions can run high when life is so crazy. My son has been super edgy the last couple days. He's obviously processing the strange environment we are currently in.
If I can't wrap my mind around a pandemic, how can I expect a 6 year old to do it? All I can do is listen to his worries and hold him when he cries.
Talking with the other moms didn't really give me any concrete solutions. After all, there aren't any guidebooks in how to deal with the ramifications coronavirus. But just knowing we were all in this together, giving the best we can, reenergized me.
In 2017 my family headed to Tokyo. My husband had a new job and my son and I came along for the ride. This move was my second move to Japan - the first was for a year in 2002. At that time I was a single, recent college graduate. Moving abroad as a family was a whole different ball of wax. As I live this crazy life in Japan, I track our adventures and my observations, creating an unofficial guidebook to the city.
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