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How to Prepare for Another Covid-19 School Year

Back to What?

4 โ€“ Make plans for quality time

Outings may be scarce, and vacations even scarcer. But you can still intentionally create space for spending individual quality time with each of your childrenโ€ฆand time together as a family! When stress is high and schedules tight, special connecting time is even more necessary and valuable.

So budget some minutes for meaningful, slowed down, child-centered time every day. Investing in listening to your child will make it easier to recognize and validate your childโ€™s (and your own) struggles. When you spend time deliberately connecting with your kids, youโ€™ll also โ€œtune-inโ€ to their emotional states as well.

Which brings me to my last pointโ€ฆ

5 โ€“ Help your kids process their thoughts and emotions

While everyone in a family may experience similar life events, we donโ€™t all react and respond to our circumstances the same way. What may not be as obvious is that childrenโ€™s brains havenโ€™t developed enough to easily make sense of all their (sometimes both conflicting and simultaneous) thoughts and feelings.

In the same moment, they may be sad that they canโ€™t see their friends, but also feel scared about the future. As a parent, you are in a unique position to make space for them to name their feelings. You can explore and validate their expressed opinions about events theyโ€™re witnessing and experiencing. And what a blessing it is to help your child feel heard and understood.

So thatโ€™s it, youโ€™re now totally prepared now for back to schoolโ€ฆnot! Itโ€™s going to be a wild ride. But what you do have are some new ways of approaching all the challenges 2020-21 will throw at you.

Remember you are not alone. Families all around the world are doing their best to navigateโ€”albeit clumsilyโ€”through this pandemic. Find your tribe. Share your sob stories and successes together. And hopefully, you now have some tools for navigating the school year ahead to make it a successful one!

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