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Distance Learning or School In-Person? 5 Questions to Help you Decide!

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

You’ve been presented an impossible task, mama. You’ve been asked to predict the future in a time when our world’s top scientists can’t even paint us a clear picture of what our coming year will hold. You’ve been asked to make a plan for your exceptional child’s schooling, as schools scramble themselves to make their own complicated decisions. We know you will prevail, as you always do, but this is a complicated decision. And for you mamas who have children with ADHD, autism, learning and language differences, or anxiety, this decision is even more complicated and challenging!
 
Full-time in-person schooling, or hybrid in-person/distance learning, or full-time distance learning… you, willingly or not, were thrust into distance learning in the blink of an eye this spring. To complicate matters, your child likely needs and receives specialized supports, modifications, and accommodations at school, such as through ...
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5 Strategies to Help You Teach Your Child via Remote Learning

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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...

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How Our Families Are Managing During Unprecedented Pandemic Parenting Times

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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...

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