Posted: Mar 21, 2020 1:02 pm
I didn’t have an issue with my 19 year old and getting her to understand. I just tell her every day what has been recommended or decided by the government and she says ‘ok’. Her and her friends had already decided to stop physical meet-ups, and they get together online every night for group chat or to play games. I hear her up there whooping and laughing herself half to death. She’s no problem at all. But then she has had several years already of shitty things, such as anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts caused by being a attacked, my cancer, US’s health issues and thinking she was going to lose her ‘Pop’ (paternal grandfather) twice, once through bowel cancer and again through internal bleeding. As a result she has become very aware of the bad things that can happen. To her, this is just another bad thing, but she knows that if she does her bit, there is a chance it could pass us by and leave her loved ones intact. She is very mature, because she has had to be.