Ilana Wilesのインスタグラム(mommyshorts) - 1月9日 00時10分

Last night, as I lay in my bed glued to the TV, Harlow walked in. “Mom! Let’s play a game!” I looked at her and realized I hadn’t given her the time of day in almost 24 hours. I let the kids get lost in their online worlds so that Mike and I could watch the news. “This is important,” I told them and they listened. We have been open about everything going on, but assure them that we are safe in NYC and that Trump will not stop Biden from becoming President. We told them that Trump is a grown man who cannot accept the fact that he lost. We kept the news on, but mainly in our bedroom where they didn’t have to listen. Things kept changing so quickly and I wanted to see it as it happened. But last night, Harlow had enough. She wanted to play with me. Or watch a TV show together like normal. So I shut off the news and we played Spot It with Fuller House playing in the background. This was important too. When she went to bed, I sat with Mazzy who showed me a new drawing technique she learned in school. When she got home yesterday, she gleefully announced that there was no homework “because the teachers think we are stressed about the coup.” She smiled when she said it, but later in the evening, asked me to turn off the news because it was scary. At bedtime, she asked if I could lie with her and read One Crazy Summer. She read it herself last year but wanted to read it again with me. It’s about three sisters in 1968 who travel from NY to California to meet the mother who abandoned them. They expect to meet movie stars and go to Disneyland but instead, their mother sends them to a day camp run by the Black Panthers, where they learn about the history of their family and this country. I’m not sure why Mazzy chose this book (I only got through the first chapter before she fell asleep) but imagine it has something to do with all the conversations about racial injustices that are happening both at home and in school. This is her way to talk about them with me; and it’s less scary to use a story she is already familiar with. The news isn’t going anywhere. It’s okay to shut it off and be there for your kids in whatever way they need you. They are processing too.

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