Top 10 Ways to Tell Kids "We're Not Going Anywhere Tomorrow"
At the beginning of the Coronavirus lockdown we had some honest conversations with the Sharpnadoes about what was going on in the world. We tried to give them a basic framework to understand what was going on without getting too heavy.. They seemed to grasp it well enough for kids who were 8, 6, 4, & 2. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t gotten a lot of the same questions over, and over, and over, and over, and over again.
One of the questions that we have heard on repeart is, “What are we going to do tomorrow?” In life before Corona (which seems like a thousand years ago right now) this was a perfectly normal conversation. Two days a week all four kids went to their grandparents, two days a week the younger two went to preschool whie the older two went to work with the Wonder Woman, and one day a week they all stayed home. Most of the time the kids, especially the younger ones oriented themselves by making part of their bedtime routine asking what they did the next day.
Since lockdown began in March, however, we’ve all been living the movie Groundhog Day.
Every day is pretty much the same, and the answer to where we are going tomorrow is always the same - nowhere. At times our kiddos don’t seem to grasp the reality of this situation, or they just like asking questions, or maybe both, because they keep asking us about the plans for the next day. For the first few days of quarantine we repeated our answers about the virus, yada, yada, yada. But it didn’t take long for us to start coming up with some more creative answers since just repeating “Nowhere” over and over again was getting old.
With that in mind here is a top 10 list of some of our favorite answers to the question, “Where are we going tomorrow?”
10. Tomorrow has been cancelled.
9. We have to stay home tomorrow to look for the lost Mystery Mouseketool.
8. Gotta stay inside, there’s a T-Rex roaming the neighborhood.
7. We can’t go anywhere the dilithium crystals to power the car are fried.
6. They said on the internet that Aleins from Melmac are attacking tomorrow so we are going to just stay home.
5. We have to stay here, there’s a lava overflow in town.
4. Can’t leave, the weatherman says it’s supposed to rain meatballs all day tomorrow.
3. We can’t go anywhere the flux capacitor in the van is broken
2. Queen Anna has actually asked everyone to stay home tomorrow to prepare for the coronation.
And finally the number one reason we’re giving the kids for why we aren’t going anywhere tomorrow…
We forgot how to drive.