'Temper your expectations for yourself and your kids.'
Now: Stop playing and get on your Chromebook/iPad/phone/laptop for math and reading and social studies and science and art and gym and music so we can squeeze in a Zoom call to the Minnesota relatives before tonight's online math skills refresher followed by online Uno with Grandma!
But the Internet is spotty and the apps are fritzy and the logistics are not ideal: A couple dozen kids, with different learning styles, at different learning levels, trying to focus on a single teacher and a single topic on a single screen with kids talking over each other and assignments not loading properly and a pandemic swirling around them in the background.If you’re not crying, that’s OK, too, of course. Some families are doing just fine with this setup.
Coronavirus affects each family differently, depending on what parents do for a living, how many adults live in the home, whether technology is readily available, whether members of the family are sick and so on. Fagell said she's had fantastic conversations with kids in the last few weeks about spiders eating their own webs and the power of books to take an utterly uneventful day and infuse some adventure into it — things kids may not have had time or interest for when their lives were chock-full of extracurriculars.
"There's research showing kids and young adults who have to endure forced periods of uncertainty tend to have more gratitude, flexibility and satisfaction later in life," she said."The key is that the kids who manage that adversity better than others are the ones who have consistent unwavering support at home.
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