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Working parents of school-aged children: this post is for you.
Stress levels elevated? Sleepless nights? Worried about how you’ll survive this pandemic with all the pressures of work, remote learning, and regular home-life responsibilities? Check, check, and check! Then you might be — like me — a working parent of school-aged children.
This pandemic has not been easy on any of us, and it’s about to grow even more complex.
In the next few weeks, children across the country will be returning to school, but not the way they’ve typically done, and for some, not physically. Many will engage in remote learning – either 100% or greater than 50% if using a blended approach of both remote and in-person learning. While not ideal, and certainly not something any of us wished for, there is something we can do as parents that will set our kids up for success. We can have the right mindset.
While everyone’s situation is unique and different, for our household, it looks like this:
- My husband is an essential employee who works outside the home
- I’m working from home full time, and
- I’m faced with creating a homeschooling environment to support remote learning for my school-aged children (like many of you).
It’s daunting. I’ve spent countless hours playing out different scenarios in my mind trying to figure out how we’ll make it all work. Inevitably, my blood pressure and stress levels would rise or my sleep would suffer before I chose to think about something else.
Then I realized I wasn’t looking at this situation correctly. I needed to shift my mindset.