As most of you know, I was recently in the United States, in several cities in the Midwest, and I spent quite some time in airplanes. So, today I‘d like you to reflect on the bit of wisdom one hears at the beginning of every flight: the instruction that, should the oxygen masks be needed, and we are travelling with a child, we should put our own mask on first, and then help the child put on his mask.
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