Imagine your house during lockdown... without your parents there!

Our parents are in the healthcare profession: doctors, nurses, PAs, medics, Hatzolah, first responders, lab technicians… all the people who take care of sick people. Usually this can be a hectic job, but since March, it’s been like living in an alternate reality. Healthcare workers have been going nonstop since the start of the coronavirus, while we’ve been waiting for them at home.

We’re really proud of our parents! The whole world has been saluting them and thanking them as heroes. And they are. They are the ones who have not been able to take a break in months. When COVID-19 hit they were just as blindsided as everyone else, but when everyone else got to hunker down at home and get their info from Jewish news sites, they had to run to work and try to figure this virus out, all while trying to protect themselves. Not only that, but many workers had to pull extra shifts because offices and hospitals were so understaffed because of the workers who had gotten sick.

You know what your house looked like at the height of the lockdown? School conferences, classes around the clock, meals and snacks around the clock, younger kids needing to be entertained… now try to imagine what your house would have looked like without your parents there! That means YOU would have to be in charge of all those things; all the conference numbers, your brothers getting on their classes, breakfast, lunch, supper, fights, boredom, etc. Imagine if you had to juggle that all day, day after day — when you have classes yourself! Well, that’s us.