Why It's Time to Talk About the Kids of 2020

We’re talking a lot about kids again here on the radio and there has probably never been a more important time to talk about kids.

Because kids have been going through a lot this year.A word that many kids may have never heard before, and if they did, they never thought much about it, “pandemic”, has been THE word in their lives.

A virus that spread across the globe in just a few months has spread across their world in ways that, even with a kid’s imagination, they may have found hard to believe.

Kids here in San Diego are facing something that most of us living adults never had to live with when we were kids.

Disruptions on their lives no one saw coming. Not being able to go school but suddenly having to learn about distance learning. Not being able to be with their friends during a time in their lives that being with friends and learning how to get along with friends and treat their friends is so important.

Kids’ parents losing their jobs or on furlough and they want to know why they can’t have the clothes or the food they usually do.

And kids not being able to be with grandparents, and aunts and uncles, and others in they love and who love them.

And then the number of kids of all ages who are being treated for anxiety and depression.

It is not easy being a kid in 2020.And that’s why all the stories you are hearing about on the radio today are so important.Because kids are important and a blessing to their families. And that’s why it’s Rady Children’s hospital needs the support of all of us in San Diego.

So as we approach the Christmas holiday, usually the best time of the year for children, let’s think about the kids. And let’s all of us try to make this season of giving a very special one.

(Photo C.E. Albert)