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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, how about using this time to form a relationship with your child?[/quote]

I have a great relationship with my children. It does not, and has never, included being their primary source of education while I work a full time job. If you can accomplish those things and still be a productive employee and a good teacher...not a parent, because in no time in recent US history were parents expected to be the primary source of their child’s education, I commend you. I can’t do it. Many of us are struggling to manage these new roles that we never expected to undertake. [/quote]

I hear you, PP.  My spouse and I were so stressed as home schooling parents that we've taken in a graduate student to take over for us.  Our AirBnB apartment sits empty, so we've filled it with a tutor, a friend of a friend who lost her campus housing, willing to work for room and board.  Taking family politics out of home schooling has been a huge help.  We got lucky on the grad student.  She's just a whole lot better at teaching our children than we were.  She's also even more diligent than we are about taking precautions against corona.  There are ways and ways...[/quote]

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