The Year My Parents Were My Playmates

In-person learning is returning

Photo by Tetbirt Salim on Unsplash

Drop the mic, kid. It’s time for in-person learning. I’m not allowed to walk my fifth-grader to school.

I ask him, “Do your friends think you have your own place? Do they not know you have a mother?”

“Mom!” He grinds the words through his teeth.