Nine tips to help you with the homeschool/work-from-home juggle

If you are about to embark on your first week of the homeschool, work from home juggle, we are a week into this. Here is what I learnt last week!

1. Lower your expectations for home-schooling right now. And start from there!

2. Know that everyone is in this together and our children will all be really helped when they go back to school.

3. Be flexible in your approach to everything but also have a timetable for the whole family.

4. Use online resources if you can. Many schools are providing guidance and materials for the children.

5. Be creative with your teaching and see where you can bring the learning into the things you need to do. Can they help you to cook and read the recipe for you? Can they measure out ingredients? Can they help you by writing down everything that is in the freezer and sticking it on the fridge?

6. Can you buddy up with a friend and you teach something to their children and yours via Zoom for 30 minutes in the morning and then your friend does the same for you in the afternoon?

7. If you have older children, can they help your younger children (or younger cousins/friends via Zoom) with school work? This helps them cement their knowledge and feel amazing and really helpful. And the younger children love it too!

8. If you have a partner can you work together to make it work for both of your work hours? For example I have the morning until 9am, an hour 5-6pm and then the weekends for my work. I will also be squeezing other things in with my children’s help but those are the hours that my husband knows he has to cover.

9. Remember we have never been faced with anything so crazy in our lifetime. Take one day at a time. The most important thing that your child/children will remember during this time is how you made them feel. Concentrate on that. The school stuff is an added bonus.

You have got this! And we are Together, Apart. xx