"There are no right answers to wrong questions.” – Urusla K. Le Guin

You know when you first have a baby, and everyone says things like, "The days are long but the years go by fast!" and other irritating, um, insightful comments like that? In some ways, parenting during this pandemic feels very similar. On one hand, my (Katie's) kids have already eaten all of the snacks and done every single thing on the to-do list by 8:47 a.m., leaving me to wonder how we are ever going to make it through the day! On the other hand, it's already well into April... excuse me, what? How is time able to go so fast and yet so slow at the same time? For all of us, things are just crazy right now.

Check in time 

So... we want to check in with you! Tell us, how are you doing? Let me just say that you are all on our minds these days. Truly, we just want to know how we can serve you best. As we Skyped for our team meeting last week, our originally planned blog post topics seemed a little bit trivial when we started thinking about everything going on in the world. So we shifte...

Weekly check in time! How is everyone doing? This week has brought countless changes, and for most of us, a little (or a lot!) of added stress as we adjust to this new “normal.” We are right there with you, and we are figuring it out with our own families too! As schools move forward with plans to implement remote learning, we are getting daily questions from parents, such as:

• How do I support my child with ADHD when they are not motivated to work at home?
• What is the best way to balance my adult responsibilities (working from home, taking care of other children, managing all of this stress) along with making sure my child doesn’t fall behind academically?
• How will my child’s needs be met if they are on a 504 plan or an IEP?

 While we have no expertise in pandemic management, we do know a lot about child development, the parent-child relationship, and special education needs and resources. In trying to think about how we can support you during this time, we decided to bring tog...

It seems that in the past few weeks, we went from feeling like the COVID-19 virus was no big deal to much of our country shutting down indefinitely. We are all living in a state of uncertainty about the future, and we all know that uncertainty breeds anxiety.

After doing a series of blog posts related to anxiety, we thought it was appropriate to do a post this week on how Mallory, Katie, and I are managing these rapid changes in our own lives. On the blog today, we are each taking turns talking about how our families have been affected, how we are managing our own anxiety, and how we are talking to our kids about the virus.

Lori’s Family

This past week was our spring break. Fortunately, we had planned to have a low-key spring break anyway, as we have a Disneyland trip planned for early May. However, my parents were scheduled to come out over their spring break (my mom is a high school math teacher), and they had to cancel their trip. This was hard news to tell my kids, but they took...