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Speaker 1: This is t PO. Hi, guys, welcome to this week's

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Speaker 1: Teddy Tea pod Um. Before we dig into today's topic,

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Speaker 1: which is, you know, ways to ease the stress of

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Speaker 1: remote learning for parents and what the effects will be

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Speaker 1: for kids, UM going into the school year next year,

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Speaker 1: whether it's remote or in person. I kind of just

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Speaker 1: Danielle and Tori on what's kind of going on in

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Speaker 1: in in my world. UM, I don't know. I posted

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Speaker 1: on my social media and I felt really uneasy about

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Speaker 1: doing it, but it actually was a blessing because there

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Speaker 1: was so many moms that commented that they had gone

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Speaker 1: through a similar situation that I'm going through with Dove. UM.

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Speaker 1: The backstory is UM. At Dove's two month appointment, I

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Speaker 1: took her in and the pediatrician said, it looks like

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Speaker 1: she might have tort to callis UM, which my son had,

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Speaker 1: which wasn't you know, super alarming to me. UM. And

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Speaker 1: you know, she may end up being in needing to

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Speaker 1: go into a dock band or you know, the helmet

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Speaker 1: and or you know, she may need some physical therapy

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Speaker 1: why don't you start in physical therapy now and then

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Speaker 1: we'll see where she is at her next appointment. So

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Speaker 1: we started on in physical therapy and then UM and

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Speaker 1: her next appointment, her followupal appointment. The doctor was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're definitely leaning in the direction of needing the dock band, UM,

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Speaker 1: but before you go to those specialists, I want you

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Speaker 1: just to go to this neurosurgeon just so he can

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Speaker 1: have a look UM. So immediately after UM, I went

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Speaker 1: into the neurosurgeon. And you know, right now, you can't

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Speaker 1: was just by myself a dove, and I thought it

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Speaker 1: was mainly just like a routine check. And immediately he

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Speaker 1: was like, Teddy, we we have to take her and

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Speaker 1: to get UM a CT scan. And they walked me over,

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Speaker 1: and like, getting a CT scan for a baby is

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Speaker 1: already like a thing because you have to like put

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Speaker 1: then I was like waiting for the results and I didn't.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I had like all this worry

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Speaker 1: that she has something called lambdoid cranio synistosis and she's

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Speaker 1: gonna need no surgery. Um, so you know that's booked

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Speaker 1: for July, and it's like, um two days in the

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Speaker 1: nick after the surgery, and then it's um, you know,

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Speaker 1: for a four to five days in the in the hospital,

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Speaker 1: and there's just so many unknowns and you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: so sorry. Like when you texted us, my heart literally

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Speaker 1: broke and I just I like how, And I just

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Speaker 1: want to hear more about the process of like how

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Speaker 1: you were by yourself with us, I know, you know,

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Speaker 1: like obviously like I'm sure you're texting with Edwin, but

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Speaker 1: like how how did you navigate that as a couple,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he was so upset about that as well.

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Speaker 1: Like my husband in general, he's such like a fixer,

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Speaker 1: because they brought us both back in to explain. They

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Speaker 1: I mean we both you know, have our faith and

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Speaker 1: we definitely it's a struggle right now. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: and so it's it's definitely one of those like trying times,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that they understand is Mommy's leaving, gonna

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Speaker 1: great that Edwin will be home with them, but in

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Speaker 1: I definitely have a heavy heart. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: waking up and seeing in the news today about Nya Rivera.

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Speaker 1: You know, you guys that are listening to this episode,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's so many of us right now

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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of dark days, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I hope that to day's episode we can dig into

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Speaker 1: for ways for parents to cope and work through things,

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Speaker 1: um and just put our faith into knowing that you know,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be okay. Yeah, I feel like today

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so much happening with just personal

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Speaker 1: there's just a lot of anxiety and uncertainty and sadness,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we all need those tools to help

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Speaker 1: get us through what's going on right now. No, I

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Speaker 1: feel the same way, and I'm grateful to you guys

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Speaker 1: for you know, helping me out. And we have some amazing,

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Speaker 1: amazing guests today, um, and all different avenues of the

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to get get started on that. And you know,

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Speaker 1: if I'm a little all over the place today, you

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Speaker 1: guys give me a little grace because, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: that you guys are all doing the best that you can.

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Speaker 1: And I thank everybody for tuning in you guys. I'm

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Speaker 1: so excited to bring on our first guest, Una Hanson.

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Speaker 1: She has been doing something super cool and fun and

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Speaker 1: the common Sense Camp. I'm gonna get her on, have

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Speaker 1: her talked to us a little about it. It's so positive.

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Speaker 1: It's something that we can do. It's something tangible we

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Speaker 1: super excited. Una Hansen. Um, she has the common Sense Camp.

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Speaker 1: on this? I love it. You know, it's funny. Um.

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Speaker 1: It actually started out as a joke. So for years,

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, they could read the whole Harry Potter

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Speaker 1: So fast forward to this year where their sleepaway camps

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we need to actually have common Sense

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Speaker 1: Camp this summer. You know, we have all this time

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Speaker 1: This is something you're doing with them hands on, ideally

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be super elaborate, but you know,

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Speaker 1: hear as well. Hi, thanks for joining us. We were

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Speaker 1: just talking about some of the struggles we're all going

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Speaker 1: into with all the unknowns and finishing off and now

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Speaker 1: being on summer break, and how we can help kids

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Speaker 1: with like the COVID slide and all those types of things. So, like,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me that I was wanting to

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Speaker 1: ask you about is how to really cope with your

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Speaker 1: kids when it comes to this remote learning. And there

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Speaker 1: are frustration levels when it comes to doing it, because

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Speaker 1: my daughter is loving, like loved it, and my son

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Speaker 1: was like, uh no, so hard. Isn't it such a struggle.

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Speaker 1: It's such a different way of life than we're used to.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like a tornado or Finati came into our

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Speaker 1: house like wipes everything clean, and now we've got to

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Speaker 1: totally start over and totally reset how we live our

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Speaker 1: daily lives. Like we're all used to going going out,

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Speaker 1: our kids going to school. So I think it's really

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Speaker 1: important that we be mindful of what our kids can handle.

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Speaker 1: So childhood development experts say that kids can really only

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Speaker 1: pay attention for two to three minutes per year of

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Speaker 1: their age. So for a four year old, it's really

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Speaker 1: about twelve minutes. We can't expect our young kids to

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Speaker 1: be sitting for an hour in front of a screen

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Speaker 1: learning their school work. We really need to break it

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Speaker 1: down for them, start and stop, take breaks based on

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Speaker 1: their age. This is really big news for me, right

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Speaker 1: even for older kids. In a ten yere I've got

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Speaker 1: a ten year old, he really can only sit there

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Speaker 1: for thirty minutes before he's going to start to lose it.

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Speaker 1: So I think we have to set the right expectations

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Speaker 1: for what we can expect out of our kids based

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Speaker 1: on their age and their capacity to learn. So what

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Speaker 1: do you think the best thing to be doing during

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Speaker 1: summer right now with our kids to make sure that

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Speaker 1: they're going to be prepared for whatever is coming in

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Speaker 1: the fall, whether it's school or remote learning. Well, there's

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Speaker 1: so many rate apps online right I go to common

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Speaker 1: Sense Media a lot and I look up some of

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Speaker 1: their educational apps. They have wide Open Schools, which is

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Speaker 1: a whole platform that you can go and they have

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Speaker 1: all these free learning um E learning activities that are

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Speaker 1: totally approved by Common Sense Media. If you don't know them,

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Speaker 1: they rate movies and TV shows and apps based on

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Speaker 1: violence and sex and other bad things in it. So

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Speaker 1: it's a very trustworthy source to find a lot of

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Speaker 1: the learning activities. And this Wide Open Schools as a

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Speaker 1: program they created just for summer learning to kind of

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Speaker 1: catch your kids up right. Um. There's also Mathmatium. I

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Speaker 1: think you know about that, but they have a lot

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Speaker 1: of assessment tools to kind of find out where your

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Speaker 1: kid is at benchmark, then when they go back to

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Speaker 1: school in the fall, to figure out where they are

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Speaker 1: with masks. You know. Also for us, I have to

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Speaker 1: say summer for us, I really wanted to make sure

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Speaker 1: my kids had a break because I felt like the

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Speaker 1: end of the school year was so tough and it

483
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Speaker 1: was so hard to transition from being in school one

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Speaker 1: day to not being in school the next. I have

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Speaker 1: given them more leeway during the summer. I have not

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Speaker 1: sort of ramped up do anything yet because I do

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Speaker 1: want them to kind of have a little bit more

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Speaker 1: freedom and feel free to be kids during the summer too. Um.

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Speaker 1: We're all worried about what the fault and was like

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Speaker 1: in our kids learning. We all want our kids to

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Speaker 1: achieve high exenomic success. Um, But I do think some

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Speaker 1: of the summers should be a little more relaxed to

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Speaker 1: while we have it. It's the only July, right, I know. Right? Um,

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Speaker 1: and then what do you think like some tools for

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Speaker 1: us parents who are feeling guilty about, you know, our

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Speaker 1: teaching capacities and so, yeah, I'm frustrated or impatient or

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Speaker 1: whatever that may be. Right, Well, we're not teachers, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm at a teacher. I didn't I didn't

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Speaker 1: sign up for this, I guess I would say, but

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Speaker 1: we're doubtless what we have. Um, um, we're lucky, we

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Speaker 1: have resources. So one thing I'm really trying to do

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Speaker 1: is not be so hard on myself all the time.

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Speaker 1: We're not perfect. Kids are gonna have temper tantrums. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get insight. And as one of my friends said

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Speaker 1: on Facebook, she said, sometimes I just locked myself in

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Speaker 1: the pantry cry. So sometimes we have to take like

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Speaker 1: a mommy time out, right, we do. We have to

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Speaker 1: take a mommy time out. I have a dog and

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Speaker 1: I'll use it as an excuse. Okay, I gotta go

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Speaker 1: walk the dog. I need twenty minutes to myself to

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Speaker 1: like cool down, take a break. So I I think

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Speaker 1: that's okay. We all have our mental health to take

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Speaker 1: care of, so taking many breaks, having like a quick

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Speaker 1: event in the bathroom away from the kids is fine. Also, UM,

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Speaker 1: I really like this site. It's called Virtual Health Partners

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Speaker 1: and they have a lot of mindfulness activities on their

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Speaker 1: site meditation, UH, coping skills, mental health resources, Virtual Health

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Speaker 1: Partners dot com and it's a really great place for

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Speaker 1: adults to kind of go look up ways to be

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Speaker 1: mindful because we have to have our own sanity preserved

521
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Speaker 1: right during this because if we're not, we're not in

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Speaker 1: a good mental place. Our kids will in turn probably

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Speaker 1: fall apart more and and I've learned a lot. It

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Speaker 1: was really hard at first. It's gotten a little bit easier,

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Speaker 1: but it's a big culture shift. Yeah, I definitely feel

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Speaker 1: like it comes in waves. And I appreciate you coming

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Speaker 1: on and talking with us and giving us these tips. Um.

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Speaker 1: If people want to find out more information from you,

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Speaker 1: where do they look you up? Yeah? Well, our websites

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Speaker 1: two months media dot com and we reached UM and

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Speaker 1: talk to parents all the time about ways to connect

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Speaker 1: with technology and brands they might be interested in. So

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Speaker 1: we'll put some stuff stuff on our website two months

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Speaker 1: media dot com. Awesome, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, appreciate it. Okay, guys, so our next

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Speaker 1: guest is Michelle Torgerson. She is with Raising a Reader

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Speaker 1: dot Org, which is so exciting to me because she's

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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about best ways to establish a regular

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Speaker 1: reading routine at home, which I know what we do

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Speaker 1: right now, but I don't know if that's the best way.

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Speaker 1: It seems to work well with my um stepdaughter and

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Speaker 1: with my daughter, they're older there seven and eleven, which

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Speaker 1: is like before bed for one to thirty minutes, they

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Speaker 1: have reading time, um and either my husband and I

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Speaker 1: will go down and read with them. But my son,

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Speaker 1: who's five, he's like not interested in reading at all.

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Speaker 1: I've gotten all the books, I've tried different things what

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Speaker 1: he's into, and he's like no, Ma'm so what what

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Speaker 1: are some tips for some different age groups. Well, first

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Speaker 1: of all, Teddy, you're not doing anything wrong. The most

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Speaker 1: important thing is to try to establish some kind of

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Speaker 1: routine and for the parents to get involved and to

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Speaker 1: make it fun. So reading should be fun, especially reading

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Speaker 1: that's done at home. And some of the tips that

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Speaker 1: we give to the families that we work with would

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Speaker 1: be to do it around bathtime. Bathtime can be a

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Speaker 1: time where your child's kind of captivate that's uh in

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Speaker 1: within the tub or the sank. I mean, this guy

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Speaker 1: is probably at the tub and you're able to enjoy

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Speaker 1: a book while they're in the bathroom they're doing something else.

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Speaker 1: Another time would be I know we're not commuting as

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Speaker 1: much anymore, but if there's one or more caregivers within

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Speaker 1: a car sharing a story again and the child's in

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Speaker 1: the car, so maybe he'd be into that. Um also

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Speaker 1: meal time, So what we do at our house sometimes

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Speaker 1: I have an eight year old stepdaughter and will share

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Speaker 1: from the time she was really little, we would have

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Speaker 1: a story time just before we'd sit down to eat.

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Speaker 1: So the incentive would be her favorite meal that was

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Speaker 1: coming up next. But building in that regularity made a

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Speaker 1: difference for her. Oh that's such a good idea. And

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Speaker 1: the question do you think that it makes a difference

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Speaker 1: if your child is reading from an actual book versus

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Speaker 1: an electronic device? Great question and a super hot topic

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Speaker 1: right now because everyone's worried about screen time as we're

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Speaker 1: all living in this time of COVID. So what we're

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Speaker 1: is telling and sharing with our community is and what

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Speaker 1: we know is we want our parents to take a

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Speaker 1: little bit of the pressure off. Right, there's so many

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Speaker 1: shig messages out there and shaming of parents around screen time,

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Speaker 1: so we're really striving for balance. The best way to

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Speaker 1: book what we call book cuddling and the share stories

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Speaker 1: was with the physical book, so we highly in courage that,

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Speaker 1: but there are a lot of other really great ways

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Speaker 1: to access stories online through places like Epic or kind

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Speaker 1: Academy Kids, so it's not or even your local library.

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Speaker 1: So we encourage the physical book sharing, um, but using

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Speaker 1: a digital advice is fine too. We mostly want parents

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Speaker 1: to take that shame off a little bit and to

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Speaker 1: really just spend that bonding time with their child and

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Speaker 1: make it fun. The kids look forward to that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure, and then every summer the kids kind

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Speaker 1: of like fall back a little bit, you know, when

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Speaker 1: they're out of the routine. How do you recommend, especially

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Speaker 1: now with COVID and all of these other changes, what's

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Speaker 1: your recommendations on how to like kind of push through that,

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Speaker 1: especially getting that resistance. Yeah, so we we're talking about

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Speaker 1: the summer slide is what we call it in in

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Speaker 1: academia UM and usually kids will lose about of our

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Speaker 1: learning that they gained over school year. So we're talking

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Speaker 1: about our kindod first and second all the way through

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Speaker 1: grade school. Right now with it slide because kids have

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Speaker 1: been out since March, we're looking at about forty learning loss,

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Speaker 1: which is really significant and our isn't that pretty shocking?

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Speaker 1: Our schools are working to figure out how do we

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Speaker 1: remedy that, and what we're saying, what we know is

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Speaker 1: if you share books at home and established that reading

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Speaker 1: routine at home. And I'm saying if you can read anything.

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Speaker 1: My stepdaughter sometimes likes to read the design with in

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Speaker 1: Reach catalog and I say, that's just fine. Whatever it

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Speaker 1: is that interests her, UM is really great. But it's

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Speaker 1: establishing that routine of we recommend about twenty minutes a day,

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Speaker 1: and if you're modeling and reading with the child, that

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Speaker 1: makes a big difference as well. So maybe it's structured

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Speaker 1: family reading time. But what we know is that if

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Speaker 1: you do that for a for a month, if you

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Speaker 1: do that over the summer, you'll gain about a month

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Speaker 1: of those reading skills back at the school year. So

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Speaker 1: we're facing a loss of about forty by just but

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Speaker 1: by simply just sharing a book with your child or

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Speaker 1: supporting your child with their own reading time, we can

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Speaker 1: gain about a month of those reading skills is back.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. And I also have a four month old.

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Speaker 1: How much time do you think you should be reading

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Speaker 1: to like a baby? Yeah, every day, so it's never

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Speaker 1: too really to start and UM, you can start when

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Speaker 1: you know, while you're pregnant as well. You know a

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Speaker 1: lot of families do that UM during maternal health UM supports,

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Speaker 1: but I would say, you know, again, we recommend for

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Speaker 1: our families it's about that routine. So it's the fifteen

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Speaker 1: to thirty minutes of time UM for our babies as well,

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Speaker 1: and we recommend doing that again around bathtime or just

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Speaker 1: before bed um and the child will begin to look

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Speaker 1: forward to and really appreciate that bonding time. So especially

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Speaker 1: in a house where we've got lots of kids and

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Speaker 1: lots of stuff going on. But we tell our parents,

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Speaker 1: if you can have that one on one bonding time

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Speaker 1: with their child, they will come to really love and

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Speaker 1: appreciate that time. And it's really about the sound of

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Speaker 1: your voice. I'm not kidding when I say you can

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Speaker 1: read a board book one of my favorite my friends,

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Speaker 1: or you can read the newspaper. But it's about again

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Speaker 1: your child hearing your voice and also getting disposure to

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Speaker 1: more words. Oh I love that. And I always think

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Speaker 1: that my baby gets excited when she sees like the

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Speaker 1: colorful pictures. She's kind of like her hands, like, well,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. So where do people find out

648
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Speaker 1: more information on this? Oh? This is so great? Um,

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Speaker 1: so you can. You can find us online at Raising

650
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Speaker 1: a Reader dot org. We have a bunch of resources

651
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Speaker 1: for parents. We know that we have kids who are

652
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Speaker 1: reluctant readers. We have parents who maybe aren't as confident

653
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Speaker 1: in sharing books with their with their kids and maybe

654
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Speaker 1: are a little afraid or embarrassed to share that. So

655
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Speaker 1: we break down all those barriers around fear about sharing

656
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Speaker 1: books and we have lots of tips on our website.

657
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Speaker 1: We also have a great parent guy that's free. Are

658
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Speaker 1: super Summer Um Family Guide for our rising pre k

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Speaker 1: kindergarten and first graders. That is a it's an English

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Speaker 1: and in Spanish, and it's for our families to guide

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Speaker 1: their child through five weeks of readiness for school. Because

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Speaker 1: we know that a lot of our parents are really

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Speaker 1: concerned about getting their kindergarteners. Are their younger children writing

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Speaker 1: to go to school? You can find that on our

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Speaker 1: website as well. I need that for sure. Thank you're

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Speaker 1: having me, Thanks for coming on. Okay, guys, So our

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Speaker 1: next guest is John B. And Ketty Did I get it?

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Speaker 1: You did get it? You nailed it from mathemaesium dot com.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain to us your Kickstart program a little

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Speaker 1: bit of course. So the Kickstart program we developed kind

671
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Speaker 1: of in response to what's being called the COVID slide

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Speaker 1: um and really what the COVID slide means. Three studies

673
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Speaker 1: have been done that students, given the fact that they

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Speaker 1: haven't received direct instruction on a lot of math topics

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Speaker 1: over to last ten to twelve weeks, let's just say

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Speaker 1: of the school year, that they're developing significant gaps in

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Speaker 1: their knowledge and it compounds what we would normally refer

678
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Speaker 1: to as being the summerslide. So as an organization, we

679
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Speaker 1: we wanted to offer something that targets those particular critical skills.

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Speaker 1: So we did an evaluation of national standards and curriculum frameworks,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of pacing to really identify what a

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Speaker 1: student would have learned in the last two to three

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Speaker 1: months of their school year and create a diagnostic assessment

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Speaker 1: around those skills to put together a learning plan to

685
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Speaker 1: make sure they got they get what they need. This

686
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Speaker 1: allows us to provide that direct instruction that they may

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Speaker 1: have missed over the last couple of months of the

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Speaker 1: school year. So cool. So what are some of the

689
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Speaker 1: main tips for like keeping your kids on track right now?

690
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Speaker 1: In regards to math, there is no secret. I mean

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Speaker 1: if we were in July of any other year, we

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Speaker 1: would be talking about the importance of kids doing math

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Speaker 1: over the summer. Anyway, we know that kids will lose

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Speaker 1: some of the knowledge that they've gained over the course

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Speaker 1: of their school year. It just just further exacerbates the problem.

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Speaker 1: So um, it's critical when you're working with your child

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Speaker 1: over to summer to really get a sense of what

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Speaker 1: they may have missed and make sure that they get

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Speaker 1: the support that they need. You know, mathmazing for example,

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Speaker 1: Even if you're not comfortable your child going to a

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Speaker 1: physical center, you know, we have an at home program

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Speaker 1: that allows you to do it virtually from the comfort

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Speaker 1: of your own home. That if that the issues are

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Speaker 1: there are rock they arise from this lack of direct

705
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Speaker 1: instruction and engagement and feedback that you have to make

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Speaker 1: sure there's some sort of mechanism for them to get

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Speaker 1: that feedback that they need in order for them to

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Speaker 1: move ahead. So you know, there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: resources out there that you can gather that would allow

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Speaker 1: you to remediate some of those skills and and make

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Speaker 1: sure that your child has encountered them. But somebody has

712
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Speaker 1: to be there that can provide them that that guidance

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Speaker 1: and support that they need. And that's that's a critic

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Speaker 1: a part of this whole thing too, um And there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen in

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Speaker 1: the fall, and and I think we're you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the impetus behind this was too, you know,

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Speaker 1: help correct what happened over the last couple of months

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Speaker 1: of the school year. But when we start to look ahead,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of uncertainty there too. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously I'm asking for a friend on this one, but

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Speaker 1: what is mother? It's not so good at math like

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Speaker 1: my daughters in first grade, and I had no idea,

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Speaker 1: like the amount of videos I tried to watch on

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Speaker 1: what common core math was like every time she'd show

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Speaker 1: it to me, I'd be like, yeah, but you know,

727
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Speaker 1: I had to like stop myself because the way that

728
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Speaker 1: she's learned math is a completely different way. And I

729
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Speaker 1: know how to do math. I mean I barely know

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Speaker 1: how to do math. But um, like, for those of

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Speaker 1: us that you know didn't learn this same way, how

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Speaker 1: do you engage your family and are still helpful without

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Speaker 1: you know, teaching them the wrong way? Right? And and

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Speaker 1: that's and that's a fair point. I a lot of

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Speaker 1: students that we serve in Mathmasium, they come to us because,

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Speaker 1: you know, mom just wants to be mom at home

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Speaker 1: and they want to do things and and that dynamic

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Speaker 1: either it's the concepts are difficult to teach or and

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Speaker 1: like I said, they just want to be mom and

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Speaker 1: just support their kids in different ways. And there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of interesting present you know, presentations of math out there,

742
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Speaker 1: and you know, it's so important when they're not in

743
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Speaker 1: the structure of a school environment to have something that

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Speaker 1: provides that structure. So if it's not quite working out

745
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Speaker 1: at home between the parent and the child and they're

746
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Speaker 1: trying to work through these you know, workbooks or whatever

747
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Speaker 1: resources you may have pulled online or even some of

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Speaker 1: the more passive online resources that exist where child just

749
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Speaker 1: does a bunch of practice problems and they're getting them

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Speaker 1: wrong and they don't understand why, and it's they're hard

751
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: to explain that you really should seek out a resource

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00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: that will that will help bridge that gap. Because if

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Speaker 1: a child is experiencing, you know, math problems and they're

754
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Speaker 1: getting them wrong, it's it's it's hurting their confidence and

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Speaker 1: you know, they're they're they're kind of reinforcing bad habits

756
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Speaker 1: within themselves too. So, um, there are a lot of

757
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: great resources you know out there that it's you know,

758
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Speaker 1: a live person. There is no substitute for that. Um

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Speaker 1: And like I said with Mathemaesium, it's it can be

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Speaker 1: a completely virtual experience. And we've while there may be

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Speaker 1: a lot of aversion to kind of virtual online learning,

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Speaker 1: we've refined it over the last couple of years to

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Speaker 1: the point where we are just as effective online as

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Speaker 1: we are in the center. Can we provide that live

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Speaker 1: person that will guide them through the material and answer

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Speaker 1: those questions as they arise, and that and that's so

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Speaker 1: important here too. And what ages do you work with?

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Speaker 1: We work on kindergarten three through pre calculus. Our materials

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Speaker 1: supply all of that, um and we so not only

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Speaker 1: do we put together a comprehensive learning plan for all

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Speaker 1: of our students, but we also do you know, homework

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Speaker 1: support or even you know support on just like I said,

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Speaker 1: the Kickstar program and just those topics they may have missed.

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Speaker 1: So when they come during the school year, part of

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Speaker 1: the time the Mathemaesian hours allocated to helping them with

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Speaker 1: their homework and things like that. Awesome. So where do

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Speaker 1: people find more information on you guys? So, like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: check us out at Mathemasium dot com. You can find

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00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: out all about our program are at home program there. Um.

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Speaker 1: We're also doing a series of what we call Mathenesium

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00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,919
Speaker 1: Schoolhouse episodes on Facebook. So if you check us out

782
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: on our national Facebook page, we go live every day

783
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Speaker 1: at eleven am money through Friday. That is so cool.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. Of course, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for having me. I'm so excited to

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Speaker 1: welcome our next guest, Aequila Lion. She is a former

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Speaker 1: principal and teacher and it's now at USC. I have

788
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Speaker 1: so many quastions for you involving UM, kids, you know

789
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Speaker 1: what the effects of not going back to school or

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Speaker 1: going back to school? What your thoughts are on that? Well?

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Speaker 1: I think that on one hand, it is important for

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Speaker 1: our young people to go back to school, UM, but

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Speaker 1: they have to be in a safe environment. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think for any real, meaningful, authentic, rigorous learning to

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Speaker 1: take place, you know, students have to interact with each other,

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Speaker 1: the environment, their teachers, and unless we have or our

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Speaker 1: schools have the ability to truly you know, provide all

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Speaker 1: the health and safety measures, UM, it may not be possible,

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Speaker 1: which you know, I think is the reason why we

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Speaker 1: may have to move to the digital platform. Do you

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Speaker 1: think it affects by age how it's going to you know,

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Speaker 1: a fact like do you think younger kids are more

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Speaker 1: affected than older kids? Or what are your thoughts on that? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it really depends on how teachers. So let's say, um,

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Speaker 1: schools moved to online learning. UM, I think it really

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Speaker 1: depends on how teachers engage their young people in the classroom, UM,

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Speaker 1: in the virtual sense. UM. I think socialization is a

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Speaker 1: really big part of education. UM. It's a part of

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Speaker 1: just being in school, you know, playing, developing, you know,

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Speaker 1: those interpersonal skills, but that can be mimicked on in

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Speaker 1: an online environment regardless of the age. I think it

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Speaker 1: really just depends on UM, if the teachers know how

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Speaker 1: to do that, that they have the ability to do it,

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Speaker 1: and that they have support. And if the kids are

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Speaker 1: back in school, you know, obviously they're going to be

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Speaker 1: wearing masks. Some kids are gonna have dividers, They're going

817
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Speaker 1: to be in small groups. Maybe there's not outdoor play.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's going to take a toll on

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Speaker 1: the kids? Absolutely? Absolutely. I think I mean a part

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Speaker 1: of you know, running an effective classroom, a meaningful or

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Speaker 1: a fun classroom right for students of all ages, is

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Speaker 1: the interaction piece. It's the engagement piece. So if we

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Speaker 1: have students that have masks on it, I mean, just

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Speaker 1: in terms of language development for the younger ones in particular,

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Speaker 1: that could be difficult. Um. You have students, maybe they

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Speaker 1: are UM second English language learners that may need to

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Speaker 1: see how a teacher UM talks and dictates, you know,

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Speaker 1: reading his or her lips um facial expressions. So I

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Speaker 1: mean I think that that that would be less ideal

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Speaker 1: UM because it prevents that real true engagement that I

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Speaker 1: think children and young people need. So what are some

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Speaker 1: helpful ways for us to give our kids a little

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Speaker 1: bit extra right now that they're not getting they're not

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Speaker 1: able to get because there's no school right now, we're

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Speaker 1: on summer break and there's not that social interaction piece

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Speaker 1: that they're at least used to getting on Zoom. I know,

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Speaker 1: you know, I suggested to my kids. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: look there's the Zoom camps that we can do, and

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Speaker 1: they were like, no, Mom, we're good, but we're cool. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's how my children are too. UM. I think part

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Speaker 1: of it, you know, I think a lot of it

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Speaker 1: really rest on the schools and the teacher's shoulders. And

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Speaker 1: I know that we as parents are partners in this because, um,

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Speaker 1: they are home and you know, we're here to support them.

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Speaker 1: So I would say if there's any um you know,

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Speaker 1: just norm of things that you do at home, if

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Speaker 1: they help you cook, clean, things like that can be

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Speaker 1: turned into small learning opportunities for children. UM. I think

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Speaker 1: if they have friends or peers um that can meet

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Speaker 1: with them over Zoom. You can use things like flip grid,

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Speaker 1: you know, where they can make videos and you know

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Speaker 1: tag team um onto each other's videos I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: those are the types of things that you know, we

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Speaker 1: could use UM on top of you know, maybe the

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Speaker 1: more traditional you know, reading music, dancing, you know, laughing

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Speaker 1: and playing. I mean, I'm so impressed. I have a

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Speaker 1: going into the third grade in eight year old and

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Speaker 1: I'm just amazed as to how much he's learned just

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Speaker 1: at home. I mean he took our boxes, UM, toilet paper,

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Speaker 1: paper towels, and he was just building all these sports

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Speaker 1: and you know, just giving them the space to play, right,

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Speaker 1: especially the younger ones. UM play is a form of

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Speaker 1: learning UM. And there are a lot of games online

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Speaker 1: that I know, you know, we don't want our kids

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Speaker 1: to play online all day long, but there there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of educational benefits to those as well. Well.

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Speaker 1: My kids are this is like a trend right now.

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Speaker 1: I think. I don't know, some parents I don't think

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Speaker 1: let their kids do it, but my kids, I think

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Speaker 1: that we have. I have an older step daughter, she's eleven,

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Speaker 1: so they're really into roadblocks. You heard of this, so

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Speaker 1: then what happens now what we do is at four

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Speaker 1: o'clock every day, like after we do all of our things,

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Speaker 1: they have a roadblocks zoom and all of their friends

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Speaker 1: get onto this one zoom all the different ages, and

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Speaker 1: they like go to town and they have an hour

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Speaker 1: of playing Roadblocks and they really look forward to it

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Speaker 1: all day. They're like, we're still confirmed for four mom, right,

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Speaker 1: you hooked up the zoom right. I'm like, yes, but

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Speaker 1: like I don't mind it because I see them laughing

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Speaker 1: and talking with their friends. Yes, and blocks has a

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Speaker 1: there's an educational component to Roadblocks, so I mean, we

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Speaker 1: can't underestimate, um those things. I mean, Plus then I

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Speaker 1: get it for a little bit of bribery, because then

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Speaker 1: I'm like, if in your church chart, if you listen,

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Speaker 1: you get road bucks. Huh exactly. I've learned so much

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Speaker 1: much for joining us today. I really appreciate it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you're welcome. Thank you guys for tuning in too, teddy

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Speaker 1: te pod Uh. We are all in this together. I

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Speaker 1: feel like I was on a spiritual journey today of

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Speaker 1: the highs and lows, and thanks for coming along with me. Um,

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Speaker 1: I learned so much. I hope you guys did as well,

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Speaker 1: and UM I look forward to talking with you guys

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