Elemento
The Happy Little Chef
Media
Título (Dublin Core)
The Happy Little Chef
Description (Dublin Core)
The media focuses a lot on the losses children are facing during the pandemic. And while I certainly would prefer that the virus was contained and my son would be able to attend school in person, take piano lessons with his piano teacher beside him instead of on a Facetime call, and play with a friend outside of his older sister, my six year old son is genuinely enjoying quarantine. I realize this is a privilege - we have a backyard, space, two working adults who can afford food and technology, and a live-in grandma who can help with any distance learning issues. But my son seems to be thriving in this much simpler and quieter life. We always did a lot together as a family, but we did not spend a lot of time actually at home. Now that we’ve been home together for over ten months, we have settled into this new life that involves my son helping my husband make dinner every night. And he LOVES it. It’s not as though he had never cooked before, but to be able to do it every night, side by side with his dad is an experience he did not have in our pre-quarantine life that was much faster paced and on the go. Many nights, the little chef will bring me a menu that outlines the dinner and asks for my order. He takes such pride in telling all of us what parts of the meal he was in charge of. He assures us he is both the owner and the “cooker” of the restaurant and that his daddy is his employee. When dinner is over, he asks to take my plate, and has recently become very interested in washing all the dinner dishes himself (no complaints here). I certainly long for the day that we can go back out in the world, but I feel very blessed that my son will be able to look back at this year with happiness, even in the midst of such a dire situation.
Date (Dublin Core)
January 19, 2021
Creator (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Kathryn Jue
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Tipo (Dublin Core)
Photograph
video
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Food & Drink
English
Home & Family Life
English
Education--K12
English
Online Learning
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
child
distance learning
Facetime
dinner
menu
elementary school
fatherhood
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
childhood
cooking
fatherhood
togetherness
imagination
dinner
#foodislife
Collection (Dublin Core)
English
Foodways
English
Children
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
01/22/2021
08/02/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
02/17/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
01/19/2021
This item was submitted on January 22, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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