Permission

Permission
Difficult to keep track of how many people are in this devastating tragedy.  It sounds like they, the family, survived but barely, and not all of them.  Apparently there was a son who passed away.  I think he drowned.  No parent should ever lose a child.  No parents should ever have to bury a child. 

Clearly this family, this father in particular is aware of the pain they the survivors have endured.  The remaining children are kept from the pain.  They are shielded from it by being kept busy.  The children are shuttled to and from school and then from one activity to another.  Away of the family tragedy but knowing it as “normal” the go on with their daily activities never realizing the serious and permanent nature of the impact on their lives…