I got laid off—and I told my four-year-old son

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I got laid off—and I told my four-year-old son
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“Daddy doesn’t have a job anymore.”

It had been a week since it happened—my wife and I needed time to process it first before we could begin to explain it to Ben.bedspread, took a deep breath and just told him.“I’m not sure, buddy. It happens. We’re going to be OK. I’ll pick you up from school.”Even though my son is young, he needed to know that I had lost my job so he could make sense of what was happening.

Ben watched us struggle. And he struggled, too. “Why can’t Daddy come with us?” he whined whenever my wife took the kids somewhere fun. I wanted to go, and felt like I was missing out on a piece of his childhood. But I had another networking meeting. Over time, it wasn’t awful. Our drive into the city was family time. We’d drop Lily at daycare, Ben at a summer camp, me at a coffee shop, and my wife would park at work.

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