Nana, what did you do during the pandemic?
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Mar 16, 2022
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What Will We Tell Our Grandkids About The Last Two Years?
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A couple of months into the pandemic, I bought a cheap plastic box and started
shoving Covid-related odds and ends inside. (It’s too ugly and chaotic to call a
“memory box.”) It holds the slapdash masks I sewed out of pillowcases in those
first weeks, some public health flyers, and the “I Got Vaccinated!” stickers
from my five-year-old’s trip to the American Museum of Natural History for her
shots. That box is my own little attempt to answer a question explored on Scary
Mommy by Emily Mendenhall, a medical anthropologist and professor at Georgetown
University: What are we going to tell our grandkids about this? How will the
last two years shape us for the rest of our lives?
She recalls how the Blitz stayed with her grandmother for the rest of her life:
“My Nana was always jumpy. She told countless stories about coming of age in
London, watching for bombs near her home in Parliament Fields during World War
II. Her mother panicked when she and her twin sister missed curfew.” I remember
my dad telling me how his mother refused to let anybody waste food, because
she’d lived through the Great Depression — you had enough for leftovers, or you
cleaned your plate. What will start the convo for you and your grandkids? A
stray magazine cover from April 2020? A crumpled mask in the pocket of a
hand-me-down jacket? Maybe it’ll be one of those school projects they don’t tell
you about until way too late.
“We’ll not only talk about these divided states of America for several decades,
but I suspect we’ll also feel the mistrust of this time for generations,”
Mendenhall suggests. Maybe by the time I’ve got grandkids, I’ll finally be ready
to unpack everything I shoved into that box.
– Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor
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“Just when I thought I knew what I was doing, I got a whole new parenting
experience: raising a pandemic baby, who is now a thriving pandemic toddler.”
Hampton Williams Hofer, who delivered her fourth child early in the pandemic,
reflects on the differences between pre-pandemic and pandemic babies. Childbirth
in a mask was miserable, but she treasures the memory of her son proudly
introducing his new sister to his entire virtual kindergarten class and a
million other small, quiet moments of bonding. “There were no soccer games or
piano recitals to rush to — instead we spent long afternoons outside in the
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