Parents have been rightly concerned about what effects our response to the virus would have on our children. Missing school has a cost, not seeing people has a cost and even wearing a mask might have some cost. But there is also a cost of teaching your kids that they shouldn't ever have to miss out on things for the sake of other people. If you teach your kids that masss are more painful or evil than the creeping death toll of strangers, it's inhumanity. Our job is not just to raise and protect the next generation, but to help make them a better generation. And that means teaching them about those old fashioned virtues that are common in stories rare in life - sacrifice, kindness