[Magdalen] Dilemma

[ME Michaud]

Setting limits with children should end when they become adults.
Usually.
This one sounds like he just threw his rattle on the floor and is watching
to see if you'll pick it up and return it to him.

So a big NO on this. You have responsibilities to guard your own health and
the health of parishoners.
Unless you're intent on becoming the pelican who shreds its own body to
feed its young.
-M


On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 9:14 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for your input. I consulted my daughter about it, and she thinks
> I’m making too much of it. She said if I’m that concerned, I might not want
> to ervisit her in Florida. But she and the boys are fully vaccinated, and
> if I go inside anywhere, I’ll wear a mask. Plus, I’m driving down, not
> flying.
>
> I’ll just have to bite the bullet and talk to my son about it tomorrow.
> It’s not as simple as “my house, my rules;” this may undo our very fragile
> new detente. His reasons are political and extend to all vaccinations of
> any kind or any suggestion that he should wear a mask. He wouldn’t visit
> his dad in a nursing home because he had to wear a mask.
> But I am glad for your input—it basically supports my position.
>
> > On Nov 28, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I had a phone call from my son this morning asking if he could bring
> the three boys here on a Saturday in December. He has a job and can’t bring
> them. They are 16, 10, and 8. I don’t really have much for them to do here,
> but I figured maybe we could go out for pizza and maybe go to the community
> park if it’s not too cold, or to a movie.
> > But then I remembered that they aren’t vaccinated and won’t be. So I
> won’t want to take them out for lunch or to a movie. But I’m also not
> terribly comfortable with the idea of having them here in the house all
> day. I left a message with my son that we need to discuss it, but I haven’t
> heard back yet. He told me awhile ago that the whole family had COVID back
> at the beginning, so they don’t need the vaccine, but I’ve heard that isn’t
> necessarily true. I know there’s going to be a confrontation over this, and
> I’d like another opinion or two. Am I overreacting? At the very least, I
> will insist that they wear masks—he doesn’t believe in those, either.
>