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7 hours ago, Shocker said:

It is incredibly hard to be honest.  Just trying to get a good mindset and schedule but its tough.

I have a first grader who doesn't read well so this stuff is maddening.

Same.  I got a kindergartener and 1st grader.  We have been missing quite a bit of meetings cause my wife and I have meetings and can’t zoom tablets for them.  We stay up until 10pm almost every day to do homework with them.

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I don't have kids, but I can empathize with those having to make these adjustments.

If I were in your position, I'd probably look to create a learning cluster of a small number of kids in the same class and rotate the responsibilities of supervision throughout the parental group. If there was a stay-at-home parent among the group, might even consider a collective stipend.

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High schooler and middle schooler are pretty good at self guiding and are mostly autodidactic so their virtual learning experiences are as good as can be expected minus the paucity of social interaction.

We taught our kindergartener how to log into Zoom meetings and have Google give him a reminder when it's getting close to meeting time.  Then we've done a lot of 30 minutes of reading/coloring/drawing/etc. for 10 minutes of screen time, etc.  Works about 75% of the time so that's passing in the current environs.  However, he's bored already with what they are teaching, he's reading Harry Potter while they are talking about the letter L.  We still find him hidden in cabinets watching his school ipad from time to time.

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It has been pretty tough.  I'm teaching in person and online, my wife and my 3rd grade son are virtual.  My wife is in admin so it's different for her, but she has to do a lot of redirecting my son to make sure he's doing what he needs to do.  My father in law comes several days a week while my wife is in meetings.

My suggestion is to set up a learning zone for the kids.  Thankfully his school has a great schedule set up so he can do what he needs to do, log in at the right time, etc.  My son also has some fairly strict expectations set up for him regarding doing his work and behaving.

I know it's been so freaking hard for everyone.  I wish we could safely bring everyone back for a normal school year, but I know that's not at all safe.

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20 hours ago, fitty76 said:

My ex wife and I bit the bullet and hired a nanny.  But she has been out sick the last few days.  This is impossible if you are a working parent.  

Just got to figure it out.  My wife has been working 11pm to 3am most days to get her work in.  I work 8am to 9pm to get my work in as I have to cook and etc during my work day.  I feel bad for my other 2 kids who are in daycare as we have almost no time for them.

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We're fortunate that our kids are older. My stepson started UNCC and he's hella disappointed that he hasn't been able to move in yet. Stepdaughter is a HS sophomore and seems to be handling everything OK. My wife is an elementary school secretary who is working remotely and handles over a hundred calls a day mostly for chromebook tech support. There are parents out there who are wanting to log in for their kids because they are still sleeping, crazy.

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