Phyllis Fagell
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361 appearances
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first heard Oct 2021
last heard Oct 2021
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So even if they are doing something that relates to something terrible happening in the world, and there's plenty of that, they're helping me reframe it or see it in a different lens.
It's just...
Being really mindful of what information our kids are taking in, how things are being messaged, looking for the humor in these moments.
I was talking to an administrator recently who was up against a brick wall with something that he wanted to do that he felt was important for kids.
And he said...
I said to him, he loves to fish.
I said, you should go fishing.
He goes, in my mind, I'm fishing right now in my head.
And I said, well, you're fishing in the Bermuda Triangle, but you're fishing.
That's good.
And I think that's something we can do for one another.
Something we can do for our kids is just help lighten the mood.
Even if that means having a weekly family movie night where you choose something really funny to watch, but making sure that we are letting them know that
we can be both despairing and laughing at the same time, that those two states can coexist.
It is both and.
because we are going to be in this for a long time.
I wrote an article recently for an educational publication and I read it because it just came out.
And I had talked about now that we're in the aftermath of the pandemic.
I hope I didn't personally jinx all of us when I wrote that because I wrote it in the spring thinking we were going to be in the aftermath.
And now if I were rewriting it, I would say during the pandemic.
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