Angela Hatem: Amid rebuilding and recovery, the biggest fight parents might not see coming is the fight for their children's childhood. - NBCNewsTHINK
gusts of 165 mph, the Category 5 storm snapped utility poles, flipped semis, leveled over 50,000 homes and stole 23 livesAs adults, we’ve all had to bail out on plans for home maintenance. It’s a drag, but it’s part of life. Last week, I had to cancel a lunch appointment to meet with a plumber about an unruly garbage disposal. A month ago, I had to dip out of a doctor’s appointment to deal with a shotty roof job.
At just 14, I was a survivor and a part of a recovery process. In some cases because I was asked to be, but in most cases because I wanted to be. There was a house on the ground, a business to relaunch and a rebuilding that needed to begin. As I look back now, yeah, there was a lot of work to be done, but there was also a childhood to be lived.
There was the low moaning of the wind, banging, shingles being plucked off the roof, and the crying mixed with panic.Our home was gone, and so was the family business. Everyone’s everything was gone. People got lost trying to return to their homes after taking shelter. In the days that followed, I learned a lot about home construction and insurance claims. I joined my parents when they met with insurance adjusters, learned how to fire up a generator and chased down furniture trucks that were out and about selling goods.As children of Andrew, my siblings, friends and I were sometimes asked to pick up a hammer or to start tossing debris, and we did.
And the kids navigating the wreckage of Ian, not unlike us in the early ‘90s, will be changed by what they have seen and survived. They will long to get back what was lost. When the rebuilding process begins, it will be tempting for adults to accept help and hands wherever they can, even if they are child-sized. So if it brings your child comfort to help, then let them.
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