Test post

https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/NDI5MjExMzY4MDda/a/NTI4MTQ5MDcxMDha/details


Me and the kids should be able to see this. Parents, less so. Other details on the main blog posts as needed.

You can do this. We can do this.

"Dad, I'm booooooooored!"
"Hi, Bored. I'm Dad."
"[retching noises]"

Yep. I get it. You may have cancelled plans to see Aunt Delores (Yay!), or go to Disneyland (NOOOOO!). You may not get to play Irish music at a party on St Paddy's day (that's me) or you may have cancelled camp. Or cancelled getting a kid to see their other parent.

Some of this stuff hurts, and it's OK to say that. It's OK to be a little scared, a little sad, and a little traumatized. That's what trauma is: getting hit with stuff you can't change, and can't fix. You roll with it, improvise, and talk about it. You got this.

Remember, our grandparents and great-grandparents were asked by our country to fight desperate wars. They did, then came back to really build Canada. A whole country emerged. We are being asked to stay close to home, play a lot of cribbage, and not buy all the toilet paper. We got this.

Not that Canadians in general aren't good at hanging out by the fire with a good book, but we really got this: GenX were the latch-key kids. We invented digital culture. Let's leverage that!

Please stay tuned. I know your kids pretty well, and I think I can give y'all some things that bridge the gap between media and the world.

Here's a teaser: The Cornell Lab Of Ornithology. These folks do birding like Itzhak Perlman does violin. They are all about learning and living in a loud, awesome, colorful world. And they have an app.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/