As long as you’re reassuring kids are pretty resilient. Address their worries openly. Our youngest sat up one night and asked “is this a war Dad?”. Not at all mate, just a lurgy and like other infections, people get ill
I’m grateful that their imaginations are still brimming with ideas for skiving off school, rather than getting unnecessarily worked up. Bit of a balancing act. I hope they look back on all this and remember what a craic they had, in among the insanity, political ineptitude and misinformation. And that I attempted to play that cursed English game you all call cricket, with an upside down bat. Brian Lara be fucked