Home Is The New School: Expert Insights from Home Schooling Mom (Webinar for Parents) - By Lumos Learning
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00:06 | So , um , whenever you're ready . Uh , | |
00:10 | Megan , welcome to the program . Thank you so | |
00:13 | much . And hello , everybody . Um , I | |
00:17 | think if we want to skip to maybe the next | |
00:19 | slide , it's got mhm hope . Next 11 more | |
00:26 | . That's me . And that's my family . Um | |
00:29 | , and I'm really excited to chat with you a | |
00:31 | little bit today about our story . We have kind | |
00:34 | of a unique perspective on the whole distance learning situation | |
00:39 | . So I'm just going to kind of dive into | |
00:41 | our story and let you know what ? Um , | |
00:43 | what we're up to . So we are a full | |
00:46 | time traveling family . Um , we've been doing that | |
00:50 | for two years now , and this is not so | |
00:54 | . I know . You know , sometimes you might | |
00:55 | have thoughts that come into your head About what a | |
00:57 | what a homeschooling family might look like , what a | |
00:59 | full time traveling family might look like . Um , | |
01:01 | this is not something that was on our radar two | |
01:03 | years ago . My husband and I are actually both | |
01:07 | recovering classroom teachers , so our kids are older . | |
01:11 | Kids were in traditional school . We did not plan | |
01:13 | to be home schoolers , but we were kind of | |
01:17 | miserable . We were overcommitted we were over scheduled , | |
01:21 | unfulfilled , just adding things to our plate to try | |
01:25 | to . I feel like we were fulfilled and nothing | |
01:27 | was working . And so one day I said , | |
01:29 | You know what ? I just I'm from the East | |
01:31 | Coast and we were living in Arizona and I was | |
01:33 | like , I just want to go back home . | |
01:35 | I just want to go back to the beach . | |
01:36 | I want to be on the East Coast . Um | |
01:39 | and my husband said , Sounds good . So our | |
01:43 | plan originally was Let's just move back to the East | |
01:45 | Coast And in the meantime , we thought , Well | |
01:47 | , if we're going to sell our house anyway , | |
01:50 | why don't we take our time getting there and so | |
01:52 | that you know , one idea led to the next | |
01:54 | , and here we are two years later , we've | |
01:57 | been traveling the States full time since then . Um | |
02:00 | , we did have plans to go overseas , which | |
02:02 | have been pushed back because we were supposed to go | |
02:04 | last April in . Nobody was really traveling anywhere this | |
02:08 | past April . So hopefully we'll be able to do | |
02:10 | that next year . But in the meantime , we've | |
02:12 | been travelling around the US We've been to 43 states | |
02:16 | so far . And next week we're going to add | |
02:17 | two more . Um , so and of course , | |
02:20 | we've homeschool their kids along the way , and my | |
02:23 | husband and I both work online . That's how we | |
02:24 | make it work . A lot of people say , | |
02:26 | How do you live in an RV ? And I | |
02:28 | say , Well , we don't live in our in | |
02:30 | an RV . We travel in a minivan and we | |
02:32 | book Airbnb s , um , sometimes we have stayed | |
02:36 | with family , Um , and occasionally in a hotel | |
02:38 | , if we're somewhere just really briefly So it's a | |
02:41 | It's a unique lifestyle . Um , and , uh | |
02:44 | So when covid kind of came along , it affected | |
02:47 | us , affected our travels a bit , but as | |
02:50 | far as schooling at home , we were already doing | |
02:52 | it , So it wasn't a big a big change | |
02:54 | for us . Um , so I want to share | |
02:56 | a little bit about how we home school . Um | |
02:58 | , I think it can be applicable to you , | |
03:00 | even if you are doing just since learning along with | |
03:03 | a more traditional school . So as we've gone out | |
03:10 | along the past two years , we've kind of developed | |
03:12 | our own system of home schooling , pulling together resources | |
03:16 | from a lot of different places . Online workbooks , | |
03:20 | um , free resources , paid resources . And we | |
03:23 | just kind of figured out what works for us . | |
03:24 | We pulled together everything that gives us the best bang | |
03:26 | for our book . Um , and in our case | |
03:28 | takes up the least amount of space because again , | |
03:30 | we're traveling in a minivan . Um , so let's | |
03:33 | go to the next slide , and I want to | |
03:36 | introduce you to Harrison . We also call him Harry | |
03:39 | . He's my third child and he was five when | |
03:43 | we started out . So here in this picture , | |
03:45 | he looks so young to me because he's seven now | |
03:48 | . Um , but when we were the summer , | |
03:49 | we were deciding whether or not we were going to | |
03:51 | do this . Take this big trip . He was | |
03:53 | headed for kindergarten , and it was really difficult to | |
03:57 | say , Um , you know , are we going | |
03:59 | to pull him out of school ? Is he going | |
04:00 | to miss ? And I know that's probably heading home | |
04:03 | to a lot of you right now . You're missing | |
04:05 | out on experiences . Maybe that's kindergarten . Maybe that's | |
04:07 | high school graduation . Whatever it is , it's It's | |
04:10 | difficult . It's difficult for you as a parent , | |
04:12 | I think , more so when , when they're in | |
04:14 | kindergarten . I think it's more the parents that feel | |
04:16 | they're missing out , then maybe the actual child . | |
04:19 | But we were deciding at the last minute he was | |
04:22 | signed up for kindergarten , he had a teacher . | |
04:24 | And the night of when he was supposed to go | |
04:27 | meet his teacher , we were like , No , | |
04:30 | we're going to travel . We're going to do this | |
04:31 | . So let's not take him , um , and | |
04:34 | confuse him . So and I cried . I cried | |
04:37 | all night like it was it was so difficult to | |
04:39 | think about . There was this little desk somewhere that | |
04:41 | said Harrison and , you know , the kindergarten graduation | |
04:44 | graduation ceremony that he wasn't gonna get to have , | |
04:47 | um , So I'm going to stop that story there | |
04:50 | were going to come back to it at the end | |
04:51 | , and But I'll give you a spoiler does have | |
04:53 | a happy ending . Um , we'll come back to | |
04:55 | him . So on the next slide , um , | |
04:59 | from everything that we've learned over the past few years | |
05:02 | , I've actually developed an online course called Home School | |
05:05 | made simple . Um , and in it , I've | |
05:08 | broken down kind of the system into seven really simple | |
05:12 | steps to go from . I have no idea What | |
05:14 | is homeschooling ? How do I get started to a | |
05:16 | successful home schooler ? Um , just to kind of | |
05:18 | simplify it for today . There's three main parts of | |
05:21 | that , and the first one is just the prep | |
05:23 | work , like legal requirements and the standards . And | |
05:26 | what do I teach for each grade level , and | |
05:29 | then the second part is planning your resources . How | |
05:32 | am I going to teach ? What ? What's out | |
05:33 | there online for me to use ? What can I | |
05:35 | order off Amazon ? Um , a lot of people | |
05:38 | ask us , How do you get your mail ? | |
05:39 | Um , and we haven't sent to family , But | |
05:42 | also , Amazon lockers are an awesome way to go | |
05:45 | . You can order just about anything , and as | |
05:47 | long as you're not in a super rural area , | |
05:49 | you can you can get to it . So , | |
05:52 | um , that's step two . And then step three | |
05:55 | is basically day to day , you know ? What | |
05:56 | are we going to do ? How do I teach | |
05:58 | kids that are in different grade levels ? And how | |
06:02 | do we structure our time ? How do I keep | |
06:04 | everybody on task ? So I'm going to focus a | |
06:07 | little bit on that third step and just give you | |
06:09 | an insight into something that's worked really well for us | |
06:12 | . So in the next slide , you're going to | |
06:14 | see , um , this is a more traditional , | |
06:16 | time based schedule that a student might see if they're | |
06:19 | going into a regular traditional school . And this makes | |
06:22 | sense because the teachers are coordinating with the lunch room | |
06:25 | schedule and they're coordinating with the music teacher and they | |
06:29 | have 30 students , you know , Um , so | |
06:32 | it makes sense . We have to be on this | |
06:33 | kind of time schedule . Well , when you're at | |
06:36 | home , we learned that that doesn't work . That's | |
06:40 | not necessarily the best way to go about things . | |
06:42 | Um , and , you know , depending on your | |
06:43 | situation , you may actually have some time based things | |
06:47 | right now where the students have to be online . | |
06:49 | Um , and that's okay . You might also have | |
06:52 | some time on your hands where you're able to structure | |
06:54 | the learning . So let's look at the next slide | |
06:56 | , and I'll show you kind of what we came | |
06:58 | up with . And that is the idea of basically | |
07:00 | task , a task based system . We call this | |
07:04 | our school tracker , and it's a in Google sheets | |
07:08 | . So in within Google Drive so that our kids | |
07:11 | can access them . My husband and I can both | |
07:13 | access them , and this is a constantly , um | |
07:17 | , evolving document . And you can say , See | |
07:20 | , this one was for Vanessa . She's our nine | |
07:21 | year old and we have a different one for each | |
07:25 | student , although there is some overlap as well . | |
07:27 | Um , they I'll start their day writing in a | |
07:30 | journal . Um , and basically , like I said | |
07:33 | , it's just a list of the tasks that they | |
07:34 | need to go through each day , and this can | |
07:38 | change , and this has changed over time . It's | |
07:40 | also an easy way for them to go in , | |
07:42 | and each column is a day , and they record | |
07:44 | what they have done . Um , it's an easy | |
07:46 | way to link to resources , and again we can | |
07:48 | come in and see exactly what they've worked on . | |
07:51 | Um , so this one example right here for Vanessa | |
07:56 | was from March of this year , and she started | |
07:59 | her day writing in a journal . She did sometimes | |
08:01 | table practice that links out to a website where she | |
08:05 | could practice her times tables . She would do a | |
08:07 | math lesson onto science , um , and so on | |
08:09 | , and you can see we have some kind of | |
08:10 | unique things that we've added in , like typing practice | |
08:13 | , certainly something that , in this day and age | |
08:15 | , is going to benefit even the young ones . | |
08:18 | And she had a recorder , so she was practicing | |
08:20 | music . And under number nine there you see Grandma | |
08:23 | Isla questions . At that time , we were living | |
08:25 | with my mother in law , Um , and each | |
08:27 | kid would go in each day and ask her two | |
08:29 | or three questions about her life . Um , and | |
08:30 | they learned lots of really cool things about their grandma | |
08:34 | . And so if we want to go ahead to | |
08:36 | the next slide , I'll just show you a slightly | |
08:37 | different version , which was actually from last year . | |
08:40 | This was Carter's . He's he just turned 12 . | |
08:43 | Um , but he was 10 or 11 at this | |
08:46 | time . So again , he would start with his | |
08:49 | journal . He would do math science . Um , | |
08:52 | they were learning French because we still hopefully we'll make | |
08:54 | it France eventually , Um and maybe by then they'll | |
08:57 | be fluent . Who knows ? We'll see . Uh | |
08:59 | , we have been traveling , um , with his | |
09:02 | trombone because he was playing in the school band before | |
09:04 | we left . And so he's been able to keep | |
09:06 | up with that and you know , eventually we do | |
09:08 | actually plan to settle down and probably put our kids | |
09:12 | back in traditional school . But we'll just play it | |
09:14 | by ear and see how that goes . Um , | |
09:16 | it's funny because when you have your kids at home | |
09:18 | and we thought originally our older kids that were already | |
09:22 | in school were in accelerated classes . So we thought | |
09:26 | , Well , worst case scenario . We travel for | |
09:29 | a year . They learned nothing . They're not behind | |
09:31 | because they were ahead . Um , but we really | |
09:34 | underestimated when you're one on one with a student or | |
09:37 | in this case for you know , one on four | |
09:40 | . Um , you can just move so quickly . | |
09:42 | And I think Maureen was pointing at that out to | |
09:45 | that . You know , we don't need six hours | |
09:47 | of school a day , especially at the at the | |
09:49 | younger levels . Um , but when you have that | |
09:51 | one on one personal attention , you can just I | |
09:53 | mean , my son , who was in sixth grade | |
09:55 | , was doing high school chemistry , and my husband | |
09:57 | said , Don't tell him it's high school . He's | |
09:59 | not going to want to do it . Um , | |
10:02 | so it's just been really , really great in that | |
10:04 | sense . Um , another really cool thing about the | |
10:07 | tracker is if they have an area that you're like | |
10:11 | , Oh , they really need some extra practice on | |
10:12 | this . You just you just change up the tracker | |
10:15 | and you add it in there . Um , my | |
10:16 | oldest has atrocious handwriting , and I can identify , | |
10:21 | because mine is probably worse . Um , but , | |
10:24 | you know , we wanted him to practice that . | |
10:26 | So we added it to his tracker , and he | |
10:27 | practiced handwriting every day . Um , you can see | |
10:30 | we have some fun things on there , like chess | |
10:32 | , um , and writing an email to someone just | |
10:35 | to kind of get those life skills in there as | |
10:37 | well . And in this at this time , we | |
10:40 | were doing specials . So every Monday , they would | |
10:42 | do computer programming , And , um , on Friday | |
10:45 | they would watch an episode of Mythbusters to learn something | |
10:47 | about science . And there's some , you know , | |
10:49 | you can think outside the box . And is that | |
10:52 | school absolutely that school . And so this has been | |
10:55 | a really cool way for us to just structure are | |
10:58 | learning . Um , it's really a glorified spreadsheet . | |
11:01 | So you can absolutely make this yourself . I have | |
11:04 | a download if you , uh it's I don't remember | |
11:09 | this , but family gap . Your guide . That's | |
11:11 | my kind of my brand when I teach other families | |
11:14 | how to travel full time Family gap year guide dot | |
11:17 | com slash tracker And I'm sure we can send that | |
11:19 | out later on as well , but that you can | |
11:22 | get your own download . Um , so on the | |
11:25 | next slide , just a few more quick tips to | |
11:28 | kind of wrap up a few things like you saw | |
11:31 | in the Tracker . If you front load your day | |
11:33 | with the most important things , it's okay if you | |
11:36 | don't get through everything on that list every day . | |
11:38 | So if they read and they write and they do | |
11:40 | some math like those are those are what we would | |
11:42 | put at the top as as maybe the most important | |
11:45 | things to get done . Then your everyday is a | |
11:47 | success if you get through those things , especially if | |
11:51 | the rest of the day is used for family time | |
11:54 | or in our case , traveling and going out and | |
11:56 | seeing the local area that we're living in at that | |
11:58 | point in time . You know , however you can | |
12:00 | use or learning the life skills you're cooking a meal | |
12:02 | together . That's a successful day , and then um | |
12:06 | , like I just said , looking for opportunities to | |
12:07 | learn about your local culture and history . Even if | |
12:09 | you don't travel wherever you happen to be , There's | |
12:12 | lots of outdoor free activities that , um that , | |
12:15 | you know , I feel like we're the worst at | |
12:17 | exploring our own neighborhood . So there's probably lots of | |
12:19 | things out there that you're not even aware of . | |
12:22 | Make it a game . So when my son was | |
12:24 | starting to Harrison , my kindergartener when we started , | |
12:28 | he was still learning to read and working on sight | |
12:30 | words . So we found this game online where you'd | |
12:33 | make little circular pieces of paper and write the words | |
12:35 | on them , and they were pancakes , and you | |
12:37 | would hand him a spatula and had flipped him over | |
12:39 | as he learned them . And all of a sudden | |
12:41 | it was a game . And he was having fun | |
12:42 | learning his words . Um , to the point of | |
12:45 | you know , I have kids that are all at | |
12:46 | all different levels . Have them teach one another . | |
12:49 | Um , you know , while you're working with one | |
12:51 | kid , have another one . I don't know how | |
12:54 | many you have . I've got four . So you're | |
12:56 | working with one ? Have one read a book to | |
12:58 | the other . And then everybody's learning . Everybody's , | |
13:01 | um , you know , doing something to move forward | |
13:06 | or help somebody else out . And then , lastly | |
13:08 | , always be adapting . Like I said with our | |
13:10 | school tracker , Um , we change that up any | |
13:13 | time we need to . We we actually keep it | |
13:16 | going through the summer just because we know if we | |
13:18 | don't , our kids will just want to play Minecraft | |
13:20 | for seven hours a day . So we do a | |
13:22 | lighter schedule . This past summer , we added learning | |
13:25 | patriotic songs and , um , Shakespeare quotes and learning | |
13:29 | . You know , the preamble and things like that | |
13:31 | that were a little bit different for are for summertime | |
13:35 | . So , um , to wrap up our story | |
13:38 | from the beginning if we want to look at the | |
13:39 | next slide . Remember , Harry Harry missed out on | |
13:45 | traditional kindergarten , but let's look at the next slide | |
13:49 | , and I'm not going to read every single thing | |
13:54 | . But the next slide shows a whole list of | |
13:58 | all of the not all of the things some of | |
14:00 | the things that we've done in the past two years | |
14:02 | , and if you just kind of glance through that | |
14:04 | , there's some really incredible things that are in there | |
14:06 | . Um , and , you know , he missed | |
14:09 | out on a desk with his name on it , | |
14:10 | but he got to see the pandas at the National | |
14:13 | Zoo , and we saw a sea turtle being released | |
14:16 | back into the ocean . And we did a sandcastle | |
14:19 | building lesson on the beach and visited Independence Hall . | |
14:23 | And all these really , really need experiences that that | |
14:26 | he wouldn't have had in a traditional classroom . So | |
14:28 | that's really cool . And he did one more thing | |
14:31 | , and you'll see that on the next slide . | |
14:40 | He graduated kindergarten . So even though we were sad | |
14:44 | that he wasn't seen out on certain traditional things , | |
14:47 | you know , there was so much more to be | |
14:48 | gained , and we got on Amazon . We ordered | |
14:51 | him a cap and gown and darn it , we | |
14:53 | had our own little family , um , celebration where | |
14:56 | we gave him a diploma . And he gave a | |
14:59 | little speech , and it was just adorable . So | |
15:01 | I think it's safe to say that he didn't miss | |
15:03 | out on anything . Um , so , yeah , | |
15:05 | just to wrap up when it comes down to it | |
15:07 | , You know your child better than anybody else . | |
15:09 | So you can be their best teacher . So whether | |
15:11 | you're loving this time at home or struggling , Uh | |
15:15 | , you know , just do your best to make | |
15:16 | the best of the situation . And hopefully what we've | |
15:19 | shared today has has helped out , so thank you | |
15:21 | so much . Wow . Thank you . This I | |
15:25 | got really inspiring . Amazing , uh , story . | |
15:31 | Um , uh , so there's a couple of questions | |
15:34 | . Do you stay in touch with their teachers at | |
15:38 | school ? You know that there . And , um | |
15:42 | , you know , you know where you were living | |
15:44 | when the school that you were registered in , we | |
15:48 | don't We officially pulled them out . We were in | |
15:50 | Arizona , and Arizona has certain requirements Where basically , | |
15:53 | you just have to file an affidavit to say I'm | |
15:54 | going to home school , which we did . So | |
15:56 | they . And because we didn't plan on going back | |
15:59 | to Arizona , we don't , um , like I | |
16:01 | said , we want to move to the east Coast | |
16:03 | . Um , it we didn't feel like we needed | |
16:05 | to , so we just said Well , home school | |
16:06 | for originally it was just a year now it's been | |
16:08 | we're moving into our third year , and eventually , | |
16:10 | when we do , um , settle down , we'll | |
16:12 | just sign them up , probably with their local school | |
16:15 | district . So and and so I mean , you | |
16:19 | and your husband are teachers , so you're familiar with | |
16:23 | the traditional curriculums and such , Um , are you | |
16:28 | structuring what you do with them related to to sort | |
16:34 | of traditional regular school curriculum ? Or , um , | |
16:40 | you feel you feel comfortable ? It's more productive to | |
16:43 | sort of go off on , you know , ways | |
16:45 | that you feel are , you know , useful and | |
16:49 | educational for them . I think it's a real good | |
16:51 | mix of both . Um , certainly . We , | |
16:54 | um , use online courses where , for example , | |
16:58 | you know , someone might , um , Harrison would | |
17:00 | have jumped on early on and done kindergarten math . | |
17:03 | And now he's technically a second grader , and I | |
17:06 | think he's in the fourth grade math . So we | |
17:09 | are following what traditionally would be taught from grade to | |
17:11 | grade . But like I said , we found out | |
17:13 | that they can move so quickly that my daughter , | |
17:17 | who's in fourth this year , has finished ninth grade | |
17:20 | , um , an English language English language arts course | |
17:23 | online . And sometimes we actually have them go back | |
17:26 | . Just because they're so far ahead were like Go | |
17:29 | back to kindergarten . You know , my daughter is | |
17:30 | in fourth , go back and do all the kindergarten | |
17:32 | lessons . You know , maybe it's a math just | |
17:34 | for that . Like , um , to solidify it | |
17:37 | , you know , to make sure , you know | |
17:38 | , you know all of these things , and and | |
17:39 | it's fun for them because it's easy , you know | |
17:41 | ? And then they work back up to where they | |
17:42 | are . Um , so , yeah , there's a | |
17:44 | lot of traditional learning in there , and and a | |
17:48 | lot of fun , too . Yeah , that's , | |
17:51 | you know , fantastic . And , um , let | |
17:54 | me just see other questions . Um , So one | |
17:57 | question is , um can you work out socializing with | |
18:02 | other kids ? Or do you do that in person | |
18:05 | ? Do you do it virtually , Um , you | |
18:08 | know , how does that , uh , how does | |
18:10 | that work ? That's a great question . Um , | |
18:12 | I can't say we've done a whole lot intentionally . | |
18:16 | There are four of them , so they , um | |
18:19 | it's kind were always a party . You know , | |
18:20 | we joke sometimes the parties here because there's six of | |
18:22 | us . Um , and like I said , sometimes | |
18:25 | we stayed with family . So when we're in Arizona | |
18:28 | , my we stay with my mother in law and | |
18:30 | her , um , we have cousins right next door | |
18:33 | , so they love seeing their cousins . And there | |
18:36 | have been certain , um , Airbnb s where there | |
18:39 | was one in Florida . We stayed at where the | |
18:41 | owners owned the house . It was a house on | |
18:43 | their property , so they were right there and they | |
18:45 | had a couple of kids . And my goodness , | |
18:47 | our kids live with them every single day . They | |
18:49 | were like , Are we done with school ? Are | |
18:50 | we done with school ? Because we want to go | |
18:51 | play with our friends ? Um , I happen to | |
18:53 | have kids that are just ridiculously outgoing . So if | |
18:56 | we take them to a playground , Yeah , you | |
18:58 | know , 30 seconds later , they've each attached themselves | |
19:01 | to a kid their age , and they've made a | |
19:02 | friend , um , so we're lucky in that respect | |
19:05 | . But there's definitely ways that you can meet up | |
19:08 | with other parents . There's lots of Facebook groups out | |
19:10 | there of other families that are traveling that will do | |
19:13 | meet ups . Um , there's , you know , | |
19:15 | museums and science centers that will do home school , | |
19:19 | um , days where you can , you know , | |
19:21 | it's a special for home schoolers , and you can | |
19:23 | meet other homeschoolers there . So there's a few ideas | |
19:26 | . Do you feel a question ? Do you feel | |
19:29 | that you that you can sort of see the direction | |
19:33 | , the academic interests , the thought processes , the | |
19:37 | interests in the world that your kids , um , | |
19:41 | are likely to follow , given that you work with | |
19:44 | them so closely on on learning . So my oldest | |
19:49 | , who just turned 12 wants to be a Disney | |
19:52 | Imagineer . Um , he's very interested in , um | |
19:57 | so , like the the intersection of engineering and computer | |
20:01 | science and video games and theme parks . And we're | |
20:05 | like , Well , we can see a very direct | |
20:06 | group path . Rio . Um , so , yeah | |
20:10 | , definitely . My daughter is more artistic . She | |
20:12 | loves she loves to dance and sing . Um , | |
20:15 | and that's my well , actually both of us that | |
20:17 | were performing arts T shirt so we can help out | |
20:20 | with that for sure . Um , yeah . I | |
20:21 | mean , there's no question if you're if you're there | |
20:23 | working with your your child day in and day out | |
20:27 | , you're definitely going to know them much better for | |
20:30 | sure . Yeah . Fantastic . Well , you know | |
20:34 | , I set the bar high for our three Panelists | |
20:38 | at the beginning of this hour , and I can | |
20:41 | say , um , with certainty that they all yeah | |
20:45 | , comfortably cleared that bar . Um , these people | |
20:49 | are experts . They're thoughtful . They gave us all | |
20:52 | practical . Um , useful , constructive , relevant advice | |
20:58 | for this time . Um , if , uh , | |
21:01 | does anyone want to unmute themselves and ask any other | |
21:06 | questions ? You know , the slides will be available | |
21:10 | . Um , the , you know , links to | |
21:12 | their materials will be available . Um , the pictures | |
21:19 | of Harry will be available . Such a cute picture | |
21:23 | of , uh , Harry graduating . Um , so | |
21:27 | anyone have anything they want to say ? Otherwise , | |
21:30 | uh , we can bring this program to a successful | |
21:36 | conclusion , thanks to our , you know , terrific | |
21:39 | speakers . All right , I think Hopes . Oops | |
21:46 | . Oops . Wait a second . Is some other | |
21:49 | chad things . Uh uh . So one person asked | |
21:59 | , Do you have any ? This is for Megan | |
22:01 | . Do you have any recommendation for trying to work | |
22:03 | with Children who are reluctant to take direction from Mom | |
22:07 | ? That is , Mom as a teacher ? A | |
22:11 | really good question . Um , and actually , in | |
22:14 | our situation , my husband actually does most of the | |
22:17 | home schooling because I have a 8 to 5 job | |
22:22 | . I think , honestly , a part of that | |
22:26 | goes back . You know , even further to have | |
22:29 | you established a relationship where there is a respect there | |
22:34 | , and there's an understanding . Um , but yeah | |
22:40 | , I mean that that that can be tricky . | |
22:42 | Um , I think the more structured you can be | |
22:46 | from day to day , you know , for example | |
22:49 | , we have a morning routine , and they do | |
22:50 | the same . They know we get up , we | |
22:53 | shower , we have breakfast , we get started on | |
22:54 | school . And that's just , um , non negotiable | |
22:57 | every day . And so , you know , we | |
23:00 | don't have to fight it every day . Um , | |
23:02 | I guess maybe fight it early on , and then | |
23:04 | make sure those expectations are kind of lined up , | |
23:07 | and the more consistent you can be from day to | |
23:10 | day , I think the less push back you'll see | |
23:14 | , But everyone's everyone's different . And , uh , | |
23:17 | you know , that's true . Yeah . You know | |
23:19 | , fantastic . Let me just ask Dr Miller . | |
23:22 | I mean , in a in a sense , Megan | |
23:24 | and her family are applying your tools . You know | |
23:29 | , they're setting goals that creating structure . Um , | |
23:32 | they have , you know , they have accountability for | |
23:35 | what they're doing . Um , you know , so | |
23:39 | you know they have a version of your approach . | |
23:43 | You think that's a fair way to characterize it ? | |
23:46 | Yes , I do . And I wanted to piggyback | |
23:49 | off for what Megan just said in response to the | |
23:52 | question So , uh , most of my experiences in | |
23:57 | again . Like I said , that potential population is | |
24:00 | marginalized , underserved arena . So I've worked with parents | |
24:04 | and still do now because my art colleges 100% virtual | |
24:08 | Um um , where there's I'm going to say , | |
24:13 | a clash between the parent and the child because it's | |
24:16 | evident and just being transparent as possible that the parent | |
24:20 | does not have . I'm gonna say the content that | |
24:25 | the grasp of the content that the child is learning | |
24:28 | . So , for instance , middle school high school | |
24:30 | , the child is learning . Don't really say algebra | |
24:32 | two . And that parent in this urban arena might | |
24:36 | have dropped out of school . So now the child | |
24:39 | is saying , Well , you can't tell me , | |
24:41 | um , kind of how what to do So they | |
24:43 | won't you know , necessarily want to listen . Um | |
24:46 | , so what ? What we have suggested that have | |
24:50 | seen and saw is that hold the goal setting piece | |
24:54 | . Um , there's a part of that where the | |
24:57 | parent and the child are talking conversating what Megan was | |
25:00 | saying . The relationship is built together , and that | |
25:03 | relationship has ownership on both sides . That's the beauty | |
25:07 | of of the whole goal setting . It's not just | |
25:10 | the child , the parent telling the child what's going | |
25:12 | to happen or the child telling the parent . There's | |
25:15 | a discussion and there's a you know , a contract | |
25:19 | , whether it's , you know , uh , written | |
25:21 | or it's , you know , just understood . Unspoken | |
25:24 | . That contract now puts them both in charge They | |
25:27 | both own . You know what is being measured , | |
25:30 | how it's being rewarded . And that's one of the | |
25:33 | suggestions that I always make with parents . Start there | |
25:36 | first , backtrack and have a conversation and and and | |
25:40 | start to , you know , give up ownership and | |
25:42 | and and add ownership and work on something together . | |
25:44 | And I and I believe you'll see your child is | |
25:47 | a little more , Um , I'm willing to comply | |
25:52 | and work towards the goal because it's not just yours | |
25:54 | . Stairs as well . Fantastic . And and , | |
25:59 | uh , Megan posted in Chat the link to a | |
26:05 | Family gap year guide dot com , which is fantastic | |
26:11 | . And , you know , and like I said | |
26:13 | , we will get back to everybody with , you | |
26:16 | know , slides and you know we're available any you | |
26:19 | know , any other participants ? Any of the attendees | |
26:22 | , you know , have any further questions . So | |
26:25 | I want to thank everybody very , very much for | |
26:27 | participating . You know , our Panelists , you're amazing | |
26:31 | . Fantastic . And , um and I think you | |
26:34 | give everybody reasons for optimism that they can manage this | |
26:39 | process . And , uh , people need that , | |
26:42 | you know , not to descend into , uh , | |
26:44 | hopelessness about this . That's not going to get you | |
26:47 | anywhere . So your you know , your great models | |
26:50 | for us and great advice . So thank you all | |
26:53 | . And thank you , everyone who's , uh , | |
26:56 | who attended and all of those who will attend When | |
27:00 | you as you visit the , uh , you know | |
27:03 | , Lou most side to watch the program ? Um | |
27:05 | , a synchronously . So with that , Thank you | |
27:09 | all . I'm gonna sign off . Thanks again . | |
27:12 | Um and , uh , be well , be healthy | |
27:16 | . Stay safe . Take care , everyone . |
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