I brace myself to open the email from our school district superintendent. I already know it’s going to announce yet another change in the school plan.
What is it this time? Another distance learning teacher change? A new hybrid learning schedule? Another “WeThe ever-changing landscape of the pandemic — its peaks and valleys — has wreaked havoc on predictability, routine, and the universal understanding of what “school” looks like.
It’s important to remember that kids look to their parents to make sense of these changes and struggles. Just like when your little one skins their knee and looks to your face to figure out how bad it is before reacting, they are looking to us during the era of constant school transitions as if to say, “Wait, is this change bad? How should I react?”influences our kids’ responses. Calm is contagious, so when we have a positive attitude about the changes, it helps our kids.