I enjoyed a break from spooky szn.
A confession: One of the few pandemic changes I was happy about in 2020 was avoiding trick-or-treating. We did an outdoor candy hunt in our building’s courtyard, it took 45 minutes instead of three hours, and I got to avoid schlepping around a neighborhood crowded with screaming children. As previously noted, I am a complete washout at making costumes, and because Halloween was a muted affair last year, there was less pressure to make it a Pinterest-perfect spooky szn.
This is all to say I was mildly disappointed when Dr. Anthony Fauci said: “Go out there and enjoy Halloween,” because outdoor trick-or-treating is perfectly safe! Even though I am clearly a fun-hating monster, I am happy that my kids get one more piece of normalcy back in their lives, which have been so altered by Covid.
Also new this week, Claire Cain Miller asks 18 academics who study family policy: If you could choose just one benefit from the safety-net spending bill currently being debated in Congress, which would you choose? The options are: paid leave, child care, pre-K and child allowances, and the most popular response from these experts surprised me. Jason DeParle investigates why child care is so unbelievably expensive in the United States. And Tara Siegel Bernard explores a program in New York City that gives about 70,000 public school kindergarteners a college savings account with $100 already invested in it.
Lily Burana writes a funny and sweet essay about getting diagnosed with A.D.H.D. (on top of previously diagnosed depression and anxiety) after supervising her daughter’s at-home learning in 2020. Finding it complicated to discuss all three of her mental health issues at once, she gives them all one name: Bruce. In homage to Springsteen, “who has been open about his own struggles with mental health. The nickname allows me to efficiently keep people apprised of my status, as in: ‘Bruce has really been bringing me down this week.’ The nickname helps me lighten up about my own darkness,” Lily writes.
Finally, speaking of mental health, we’re looking for your ideas on what to do when you take a day off work. Do you do anything that feels especially useful or restorative to recharge your mind? Share your ideas here, and they may appear in a future article.
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