Ep. 248 | How to Arrange Care for Your Family When They're All Sick
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Jeremy and Jeff discuss how to care for a sick family.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So what do you do when your wife and all your kids get sick and you have to head out to work? James asks, he's part of our Facebook group, how to arrange care for your family and kids when they're all sick at the same time and you still have to go to work for a long day. What does that look like? |
| 0:22.0 | And, you know, we're right now sitting in the middle of the coronavirus scale. What do you do |
| 0:27.1 | when there's all this sickness? There's so much this time of year. So James, first of all, |
| 0:32.0 | the first thing that comes to mind is that this is a very strong modern problem and that we tend to be very under-resourced. |
| 0:41.6 | So it doesn't take a lot. We're very fragile. I was on the edge of collapse. With extended family |
| 0:46.3 | units living together with aunts and uncles and grandparents and multi-generational extended |
| 0:50.2 | family everywhere, supporting each other, this is actually almost a benefit because anytime a particular small immediate family |
| 0:58.1 | starts to go down, |
| 0:59.2 | it just fires up the extended family to come in and save the day, |
| 1:02.6 | which is a beautiful experience. |
| 1:04.1 | Now, a lot of us live apart from extended family, |
| 1:06.2 | but I would say it's important just to call out. |
| 1:08.9 | We're not supposed to be this fragile. |
| 1:12.5 | It's supposed to be okay for you to take a long day of work and for others to come in. I would say that beyond extended |
| 1:18.4 | family, this is when a Christian community is really critical. It's important that wherever you are, |
| 1:23.5 | you are building deep relationships with other believers. And again, it's important to boast in your |
| 1:28.1 | weakness. And that is to be able to send off an SOS to your Christian community and say, guys, |
| 1:32.2 | this is the moment for our family. We need help. Come in and help us. I got to work. You know, |
| 1:37.6 | my wife's sick. All the kids are sick. So that's the next sort of, I think, safety net that we all need to be cultivating before a crisis like this occurs. |
| 1:46.9 | Cultivate extended family relationships. |
| 1:48.7 | Cultivate extended family style relationship with your Christian community. |
| 1:53.8 | Are there people in your life that you can, that will bring over a meal to drop of a hat? |
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