A Traditional Home School Mom’s Perspective and Tips

Dr. Blevins interviews her good friend, Stephanie, a veteran home school mom of four children from kindergarten through high school. Stephanie has been home schooling for 12 years and currently has two elementary students, a middle schooler, and a high schooler. She discusses what her home school routine looks like normally, how it has changed due to the pandemic, and behavior strategies she uses to increase child motivation, to get her own work done, and to support working with multiple children at once. Most importantly Stephanie and Dr. Blevins discuss the value of parents participating in the education process and the silver lining and mindset shift that parents may want to embrace during the pandemic to emphasize child resiliency, emotional coping, and mental flexibility.