After week 7 of being at home due to stay at home orders, you would think there would be time for multiple blog posts, but the truth is the days are not as slow or empty as I thought they would be. Balancing work, adjusting to seeing clients through a computer screen vs in person, and trying to home school a fifth a second grader while trying to keep my cool have all proven to be frustrating, rewarding, and exhausting at the same time.
I was able to participate in a recent webinar sponsored by SAFEchild, discussing different aspects of parenting during a pandemic. This is uncharted territory for all of us and there is no instruction manual for how we are supposed to cope. We are asked to do the impossible in juggling all of these roles. Our children are missing their friends, routines, and yes even school! We are trying to cope with our emotions as well as support theirs and no doubt everyone is losing their patience.
The webinar talks about grief, for ourselves and our children, the rupture and repair that inevitably happens in relationships right now, and ideas for how to manage working from home with kids.
Grief – https://vimeo.com/413693076
Rupture and Repair -- https://vimeo.com/413686390
Working from Home - https://vimeo.com/413713494