Advocacy In This Different Time

We keep saying it. Nothing about this pandemic is normal. Nothing about this time is easy. It’s a stressful time for everyone from children to adults. There is just so much uncertainty around it’s hard to know what to do.

So my question is, how is remote learning going for your family? In our house we’re doing the best we can.

Last week I did a Zoom call with a local moms group, MumNet, where we spent 45 minutes talking about how to take some of the pressure off.

How to support kids with learning challenges, how to support online learning and how to not feel like we have to do it all.

The main message?

It’s OK to not do it all. The most important thing this is to look after your families first. Working from home is hard without having the added stress of having to teach your children as well.

If you haven’t head over to my blog post from last week around this very topic. The idea of saying NO to some or all of the work is OK!

There’s also a wonderful article from Today’s Parent around the idea that this is hard. It’s OK to not have it all figured out. It’s OK to go at your own pace.

Please be safe! Reach out to professionals if you need help, they are there for you and your family.

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Today my episode with Sarah is out. On her podcast @introducingmepodcast we talk about my diagnosis of Dyslexia, how I came to understand my children’s learning differences and how I work with families. Check her out to get the link to the epi
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