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5 Steps to Surviving Distance Learning
Surviving Distance Learning! Many children who do well naturally in school do NOT thrive under the current Distance Learning conditions! Moreover, not only are they isolated from their friends, but they are expected to pay attention for hours via internet. Add to this a child with learning disabilities, or who struggles with academics, and it can be a perfect storm for disaster! There is not a lot of stimulation from a flat screen concerning school work! How can you help keep them engaged, and save your sanity? Basically, if what you are currently doing isn’t working, or is not working well, consider changing tactics. In other words, a new approach…
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My Covid-19 Class of 2020 Kid
What’s Covid-19 Distance Learning?!? This Whole World Wide Covid-19 Virus Pandemic has been difficult for all of us. To say that life has been very strange, would an understatement. Did I think that it would still be going on? No, not at all. I assumed we would be back to normal before the end of June. Now we are well into July and life is still strange. What has been the most difficult for me? Getting my son Lane through the end of his Senior year of High School. He is my youngest child of 5, and I joke that this was my last time to complete high school, so…
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Journal-About Easter
Belated Easter Greetings, World! I Love Easter! April 12, 1980 Dear Journal, I have been very, very busy, and I guess writing in you has become less important lately. Hopefully that doesn’t make me a selfish person. I have just been busy! However, I am still 12 and on August 3rd, I will be 12 and a half! Today is my daddy’s birthday. He is so handsome. I love his black hair and blue eyes. He also has tan skin from always being outside. I love that he is a fast runner and that he wants me to keep running in track. My mom made him a carrot cake. Yuck!…
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Family Consistency
Having a Schedule is Important for Kids, Princes and Princesses Having a schedule is important for kids. Like Poor Mother Hubbard, I have a lot of children. In fact, I have five children, and three still live at home. I have to be consistent, to keep our schedules going for everyone to participate in the family dynamic. This makes for less contention. My two youngest need consistency for their special needs, so they don’t get upset and fall apart when the unexpected happens. My kiddos have chores. It sounds sexist, but the girls mostly do inside chores, and the boys mostly do outside chores and tending to the animals. My…
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Parenting a Child from Planet Asperger’s
Once Upon a Time, there was a King and Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. They threw a grand celebration and invited all of the magical fairies in the realm to bestow upon the child a gift. The fairies gave her gifts such as the gift of kindness, grace and beauty. Oh wouldn’t it be magical if we could really do this? If we could bestow our children with gifts of the spirit, talents, abilities and other positive genetic features and traits? We cannot choose our genetics, at least not yet. So what do we do when we have this beautiful baby Prince or Princess who ends up being…
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A Romantic Blessed Mom of 5; Mental Health Advocate, with a Creative, Victorian Soul.