Driving Optimism: S1E2 - The Kids are gonna be ahead!  Part 1 (Homeschooling in Corona times)

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Show Notes:

Welcome to Anna Liza Bella, our guest today and mom to Ward and Simone!

Their family had a prior “line in sand” around screen time and social media for kids

Is your time creative and interactive or is it “passive scroll” and access + privacy

ALB’s book about anti-social media  (See link below)

Screen-free Saturdays as a pre-Covid family ritual - which will continue

Post-Covid communications are slower, using screens for email after hand writing

Parent private communication groups are lifesavers for quick links to assignments, recipes, notices

Current platform being used #GroupMe

Crisis schooling

Here’s the punchline - The Kids are AHEAD (no, they aren’t “falling behind”)

They are learning real life, empathy, cooperation, creativity, resilience

Creating opportunities to learn about things they would not have otherwise learned

Not unlike the depression era - IE “makegood” cooking - making cakes without eggs for example

Making do with what you have and being OPEN to improvisation and spontaneity 

An optimistic perspective on making the most of crisis schooling times!

ALB’s hubby’s great book for kids - a parody of the Giving Tree

https://www.amazon.com/Liking-Tree-Antisocial-Media-Fable/dp/1734470623

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