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Another explicit lesson I need to teach my kids, one I learned implicitly

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Over the weekend Henri was making its way towards the Padawan household and honestly I was a bit meh about it. My biggest concern was keeping the little Padawans indoors without going nuts. I will admit that I have come a long way since we had our whole house generator installed in terms of my worry and concern during extreme weather events.  And the impetuous for us installing the generator was repeated ice storms that left us without power for days, and not a tropical storm or hurricane. My kids, however were pretty fearful, heck after all the COVID hysteria they are pretty fearful in general.  This is a very sad fact that I am sure many parents can relate to, and even adults are more fearful in general it is not limited to just kids.  That fear is running the lives of many and I would go as far as saying it is ruining their lives. Let's face it we are safer now than we were as kids.  Also, we know a lot more about COVID now and how to treat it, therefore we are sa...