Nursery World - The coronavirus crisis gives us a time for reflection

How we can find hope and positivity in this period of uncertainty

Michael Pettavel

I sigh as I put down the phone, leaving another parent upset. We are adjusting as fast as we can and probably faster than most. Misunderstanding the reason for closing schools and settings has been a central facet of my week. It wasn’t helped by the ‘list’. Who is ‘entitled’? Well, not the people who normally are; some things money can’t buy.

We were assiduous in who we offered places to, and this was hard. We have been through a paradigm shift and at one stage I looked dolefully at our childcare manager and asked her: was it me that was mad and everyone else that was sane because it felt like we were swimming against an ever-strengthening tide. What mattered was that we didn’t become part of the problem and that the vulnerable in our community didn’t pay the price for convenience.

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