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Remote Learning: Is it Causing Your Kid to Fall Behind in School?

January 6, 2021 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

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If you’re working full-time from home during the pandemic while also adjusting to your kids being there around the clock thanks to remote learning, you’re probably seeing sides of them you hadn’t before. You might see them slacking off a bit in school since they don’t have a teacher there to keep them on track. They might be taking breaks a little too frequently or walking away from their work whenever they get bored. To an extent, you can’t blame them. You’re probably facing many of these challenges yourself. Having so much freedom tempts you to do things you wouldn't otherwise since … [Read more...]

Filed Under: at-home parenting, education Tagged With: remote learning, technology, tips

Jenga Game an Adapt Metaphor for Handling for Pandemic Schooling

September 2, 2020 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

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I loved playing video games while growing up, but my dad was never into them. Instead we would usually play board games like checkers or backgammon together . On occasion, when we would visit relatives in Queens, N.Y., we'd break out group  games like Monopoly and Trouble. One fateful evening when I was around 10 or 11 years old, we played a very memorable round of the block tower building game, Jenga. Jenga can be just as riveting to observe as it is to play: Watching others carefully choose the right or wrong block and edge toward a rousing victory or an embarrassing defeat that ends in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: education, play Tagged With: COVID19, games, remote learning, Vernon Gibbs II

Back-to-School Tips to Make it More Fun, Less Stressful for All

August 31, 2020 by Kevin McKeever Leave a Comment

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Back-to-school tips: we need them now more than ever, right? COVID-19 concerns. Distance learning struggles. Hybrid-learning model hiccups. Screen time worries. Balancing working from home with a child schooling from home. It all adds up to more pressure on you and your family. To help with some of these issues you may be encountering, City Dads Group has been working with longtime partner Dove Men+Care to create a series of “how to” videos to deal with various parenting issues. The videos are all part of the grooming products company’s 2020 “Dads Care” campaign. Here's some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: education Tagged With: back to school, Dove Men+Care, remote learning, sponsored event / post, tips, video

Homeschooling Schedule Issues: Too Ambitious vs. Too Lenient

April 6, 2020 by Adam Gertsacov 1 Comment

child doing homeschooling work writing reading report

Homeschooling is here indefinitely, and there's lots of logistics to consider. The biggest for many of us being how to make sure that the kids are learning, and that their homeschooling schedule meshes with our own home/work schedule. We attempted to have our 11-year-old son follow an academic schedule of sorts at the start. That worked a little, but there was so much crying and whining and "NO, I can't possibly use THAT pencil!" that I'm not sure how we are going to survive. Here was our original homeschooling schedule, the idea was for 25-minute segments with 15 minutes for resting. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: education, teens / tweens Tagged With: COVID19, homeschooling, remote learning, time management

Virtual School: ‘Almost School’ or Online Lesson for the Future

January 23, 2019 by Tobin Walsh Leave a Comment

Boy working on laptop at family table taking virtual school math class.

Based on my parenting experience, I immediately associate the word "virtual" with meaning "almost." That there's been a diminished effort, something watered down or, very simply, done half-assed. And, to date, my inclination to disregard anything my kids say is virtual has been proven right. Virtually every time. Everett, my 5-year-old “picked up virtually all the LEGOs.” Then, after tucking him in, my bare foot steps entirely on one of those little, yellow character heads. Yosef, my oldest, said he “did virtually all of my math.” Never mind his weekly progress reports littered with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: education Tagged With: remote learning, technology

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