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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our girls spent the first  5 years of their lives with us on assignments abroad in the developing world. They understood about washing food and not eating street food, hand washing,  hand sanitizer, etc. Didn't see their grandparents much. Hid in the safe room during the riots. They're fine.

Foreign service families talk about raising resilient kids who are adaptable and flexible.  It is seen as an opportunity to develop kids with these stre7. Your kids aren't fragile. They're not made of glass.[/quote]

Strange to compare something voluntary to something...not. [/quote]

NP here. I find the analogy pretty good, actually. Even though foreign service families choose that life, it's a reminder that there are many different ways to live life and that the loss of a specific kind of UMC white, suburban lifestyle is not the end of the world.

I have a close friend and a sister-in-law who both spent their early childhood in the Peacecorp with their parents and those experiences were very positive and formative for them. They have greater empathy and sense of civic responsibility than the average person. I would love to instill those same things in my kids. I wouldn't say that covid is an opportunity -- the thousands who have died and the families that miss them are not a learning opportunity anymore than poverty in a foreign country is. But that doesn't mean the virus doesn't have things to teach us. Hardship can be useful.[/quote]

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