I Found This Very Poignant

[Bobbisox1]

In twenty years time...
People will not ask the children of 2020 if they caught up with their studies.
They will not ask them what grades they made, despite the year off school.
They will ask them with wonder ‘what was it like?’
They will ask them ‘how did you cope?’
‘How did you feel?’
‘What do you remember of those days?”
They will listen in awe to the tales of clapping on doorsteps for the medical workers.
They will sit open-mouthed to hear of daily walks being the only life we saw and how much we missed human contact and gatherings.
They will be amazed to know about empty supermarkets, online concerts, birthdays spent on a screen and a life lived inside.

They will listen, then sit back with amazement and say, ‘Wow. You went through so much.’

So think about what you would like your children to take away from this whole year.
Tell them they are not behind.
Tell them they are not missing out.
Tell them they are extremely special indeed and they will be forever made stronger by this unique time.
Tell them catching up is not even a thing because they have grown so much in so many other ways.

Remind them too of the fun stuff, the family jigsaws, the window rainbows, the zoom bingo.
The feeling of safety and togetherness amidst the chaos.

Let them take that thought with them through life.
Change the narrative now and it will travel far.

Tell the children they are not behind.
They are special.

[douglas9401]

I doubt much of that spraff will happen, it's just some look at me type venting.

In my humble opinion.

[david small]

More like, shrug their shoulders and say ‘so what’.

[Neveracrossword]

I'm sure it is well-intentioned, but it's far too mawkish for me.

[emmie]

rather mawkish for me as well - well intentioned i guess

[woofgang]

Its a good point though. All exams are is a way to get you to the next stage in your life. Once you are in uni/college no one asks about gcse's. once you have your professional qualification, no one asks about your exam grades. So long as the assessment is equitable it doesn't matter how its done.

[Bobbisox1]

I had to look up what yous meant by * mawkish *

[emmie]

over sentimental.

[douglas9401]

The jury is out.

Mawkish and well-intentioned or well-intentioned and mawkish.

[Bobbisox1]

Well Emmie I'm just an old sentimental fool haha :0)

[Neveracrossword]

As you'd found this 'very poignant', Bobbisox, I chose 'mawkish' rather than 'mushy guff' which was my first thought!

[Bobbisox1]

That's okay n.a.x.w,
I'm sentimental and thick skinned :0))))

[barry1010]

It won't happen. When I was a kid my parents childhood was so far in the past I had zero interest. Of course that changed when I was older.

[barry1010]

And calling children 'special' these days is an insult. Oh, he doesn't know that? Bit special, is he?

[Sqad]

LOL.?.lol....Good stuff bobbie, it's what we except from you and mamya is another example of this line of thought and deed.
It leaves me cold.
That doesn't matter my love, just be yourself as you always have been and nobody is liked by everyone in life and particularly in AB.
We need people like you to give people like me something to moan about.
I think that is rubbish, hawkish, sugary, but well meant and well written.

[Bobbisox1]

Thank God I didn't write it then Sqad ;0)
Err me and Mamy are poles apart but I'll carry on being me anyway haha

[aelmpvw]

sadly, it looks as if there is going to be a record queue of abers waiting to slap bobbi?

[Bobbisox1]

Haha,I can cope ael,

[emmie]

its not a criticism of Bobbi, ael, just the piece is a bit well mawkish as mentioned.

[barry1010]

I like bobbi, I just don't like sentimental stuff like this post. Nothing personal.

[pastafreak]

Its mawkish for me too. And I'm an American...we invented over-sentimentality!
And I don't see mamy being the same as Bobbi either.