Home education can help our children thrive beyond this crisis

“My advice to any parents who want to homeschool their children during the school shutdown - don’t,” said a meme that I read this week. “Arguing with your children to do work is not what anyone needs now. Instead, cuddle up together and read, read read.”  The meme continues to advice parents to play board games, build forts, paint or set up a tent in the living room and camp out.

This week many parents are wondering what to do now that the kids are home from school for the foreseeable future. Many parents have gone on social media and wondered what the impact will be on their children’s education now that schools are closed. In response, schools, publishers and even the government have stepped up to provide timetables, assignments, voice and video recordings that would enable the children to go through the curriculum and therefore not “lose footing”.