The stress increases even more in families where the grandparents live at home.
spreading across the country, more parents are working from home and more children are staying home from school. Usually, that's when grandma and grandpa would step in to help take care of the kids. But since COVID-19 is particularly lethal for the elderly, thousands of families are being forced to survive without that help to try to keep the grandparents isolated and safe.
"I was trying to think of anything in my lifetime that would be comparable, as disruptive, and I'm struggling," Cook says. Euraque, who is shifting to working from home this week along with her husband, said the first challenge was convincing her mother and her children that they have to stop hugging each other or making any kind of contact.
"She was making really odd jokes. I could just see that she was shutting down a little bit," Euraque said."I kept telling her, 'We're just trying to protect you.'" "Should we move the kids to shower them in our shower?" she said."But if you get in the shower you get clean, right? But you touched it on the way in, so how long does stay on the surface?"
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