johnchiment on Nostr: #parenting #infosec #toxic Home with a sick kiddo today. They’ve vomited five times ...
#parenting #infosec #toxic
Home with a sick kiddo today. They’ve vomited five times in the last three hours and are terrified they’ll get a bad grade on a math assignment due today and I’m telling them it will be ok, that their teachers will understand, that they will get an extension (already confirmed with the teachers so I’m not promising anything that can’t be delivered), and that they need to rest and relax right now.
And I sit here, after getting them back in bed from another round of vomiting, thinking about all the times I’ve forced myself to work when I was I’ll or injured and how I justified that as being able to take it, that I can make those choices cuz it’s just me (or adult coworkers who “get it”) but it isn’t just me. My kid saw me doing that; they learned that that’s what adults do.
There are lots of influences on my kiddos life every moment but maybe I should be a better example of resting when you are sick; they don’t need a voice in their head constantly driving them back to work.
Home with a sick kiddo today. They’ve vomited five times in the last three hours and are terrified they’ll get a bad grade on a math assignment due today and I’m telling them it will be ok, that their teachers will understand, that they will get an extension (already confirmed with the teachers so I’m not promising anything that can’t be delivered), and that they need to rest and relax right now.
And I sit here, after getting them back in bed from another round of vomiting, thinking about all the times I’ve forced myself to work when I was I’ll or injured and how I justified that as being able to take it, that I can make those choices cuz it’s just me (or adult coworkers who “get it”) but it isn’t just me. My kid saw me doing that; they learned that that’s what adults do.
There are lots of influences on my kiddos life every moment but maybe I should be a better example of resting when you are sick; they don’t need a voice in their head constantly driving them back to work.