Your child of varying age and striving athletic, academic has been without school, socialization from friends, and their daily routine is completely messed up .
Yeah, sure, they were somewhat fine with it the first week as to them it was like a vacation that sometimes occurs when their school burns to the ground from a fire or gets wiped out from a hurricane, or perhaps, temporarily shuttered after some shooting event.
First off, let me please explain both my daughters are adults. I so fondly remember taking them to the Cleveland zoo, Cleveland Metroparks for hikes. Teaching them rollerblading and such both in a park and USA Skates on Dennison and Ridge road. My youngest keeping up with me as she rode a Big Wheel around the West 25th area of Cleveland. My trying to simply watching them learn and experience, fail and fall and to eventually to figure out balance as they bulleted around smooth pavement created memories to this very day seem vastly important to me now. To share with the hopes you can find you may discover the same within your mind and heart.
How do you tell your kids something like: "NO, we can't go the playground right now, honey. We've been told that could be not healthy right now."
Wide-bright-eyes child looks into your eyes and asks why; "Why not, mommy??? "
"Because we're not allowed to." she/he frustratingly states, yet not raising voice in volume. Unsure in what they should say next, lost in a world of uncertainty. Looking toward their feet, feeling highly fragile and hurting...
They tell their Kinder: "We'll find something fun, my babies! We will!"
I hope I can help with this....
Our GLOBAL CHILDREN CAN LEARN from much when we share with one another ONLINE is you take the time and patience.
Enjoy these links at a zoo near you! Most have live-cams to see animals walking and living about. I guess this is the best we can do these days/daze, which is better than nothing, I pray.
I love all of you everywhere. My Lord taught me this and am thankful for it.
Hang tough and find happiness in the simplest things that make you smile.
https://resourcelibrary.clemetzoo.com/Animal/Details
https://www.akronzoo.org/animals
Sorry if I slighted you, Gillian, Yvette and so many others as all I had to find and share came from TripAdvisor dot Com.
South Africa
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g293740-Activities-c48-South_Africa.html
Belgium. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g188634-Activities-c48-Belgium.html
Germany: https://www.zoo-berlin.de/en
India: https://www.holidify.com/collections/zoos-in-india
China: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g294211-Activities-c48-China.html
Japan: https://wow-j.com/en/Allguides/other/sightseeing/00353_en/
Russia: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g294459-Activities-c48-Russia.html
Ukraine: https://zoo.kiev.ua/en/
Iceland: https://mu.is/is/
Jamaica: https://www.jamaicazoo.org/
Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: https://www.destinationtnt.com/emperor-valley-zoo/
Colombia: https://seecolombia.travel/blog/2014/04/cali-zoo/
Switzerland: https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-us/experiences/summer-autumn/zoo-animal-experiences/zoos-search/
I Sincerely thank you for reading this first beginning of getting back to writing.
Please excuse errors in spelling and a lack of an editor to fix things.
a few credits:
Thanks to TripAdvisor for zoo links.
Huge thanks to a band named Volbeat! Their song gave me an energy to begin writing and sharing again. This was the song that fired me up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VaK0aXsDM8
Thanks again from me!
Feels good to be back writing again.
-Mark
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