As families, we are home together 24/7 now. With your child(ren) not going to school & you working from home, how is life now? Are they Zooming? How are they adjusting? Want to share your parenting/education tips?
Attend this 1st ever Parent Talk Social! It is a good time to talk & share our experiences.
Join via Google Hangouts
SHOW & TELL: Bring your child’s favorite toy or book & share your parenting COVID-19 experiences.
For this meetup, be in a quiet place, wear a headset, & have Hangouts installed on your device.
MEETUP AGENDA
Intros: You & Why is this your child(ren)’s favorite toy/book.
Share your home situation: Do your children understand what is going on? How are they handling it? How do you spend your days together?
Share your parenting tip(s) that work for you under these pandemic times.
Share your educational resources.
MEETUP LOGISTICS
MAXIMUM of 10 LOCAL GUIDES: Up to 9 Local Guides, plus me, as the host, can attend this virtual meetup.
Must bring your child(ren)’s favorite toy/book & be prepared to share your parenting COVID-19 experiences.
Must PM me a “parenting selfie” (you & your child(ren)’s toy/book) before the May 2nd virtual meetup.
A Hangouts link will be sent to you before the May 2nd, 7:00 AM PDT (San Francisco Time) meetup.
If you signed up, but know you cannot attend, PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP.
This meetup will have a Wait List. If a spot opens, I will contact the next person by RSVP order on the List.
Thanks for sharing your parenting story @RosyKohli. Your children are very lucky to have you as a parent and teacher.
I have always had great respect for teachers. Now, even more so, after trying to teach my kids during the first week we were at home. We are now going on Week 7!
Fortunately, I suggested my kids’ preschool teacher to try Zoom and she started having a daily voluntary 20 minute class with her students starting the end of the first week of staying home.
These assignments have been lifesavers for things to do during the day besides the “mini preschool” we have already set up prior to the pandemic: books to read to them and they “read” to me, blocks to build, pretend play to encourage their imagination, and a mini art studio to foster creativity and the use of their hands.
The school has not asked for their monthly tuition because since the kids are not there the owner doesn’t think it is right to charge. I found this is an exception to rule here.
Every moment of the day here does not look as idyllic as these photos. But for sure, we are living history and hopefully my kids will remember at least something when they older of this historic moment in time.
Thanks for RSVPing! I have 16 Local Guides signed up for this virtual meetup as of April 30th, 4:00 PM PDT.
Unfortunately, I can only invite the first 9 Local Guides who RSVPed who meet my Meetup Logistics criteria:
Must bring your child(ren)’s favorite toy/book & be prepared to share your parenting COVID-19 experiences.
Must private message me a “parenting selfie” (you & your child(ren)’s toy/book) AND your Gmail address before the May 2nd virtual meetup. Your photo will be used as part of the recap meetup attendee photo collage. I need your Gmail to add you to the Google Hangout link. Be sure to have the Google Hangout app installed before the meetup. I will do a test before be sure you are on the Hangout.
At the meetup, you must be in a quiet room and be wearing a headset.
If you cannot make this meetup, please let me know ASAP. I have 4 Local Guides on the Wait List. If I don’t receive your “parenting selfie” and your Gmail address by May 1, 2020, 4:30 PDT(SF Time), I will go to the Wait List and contact the next person on the RSVP list.
Due to popular demand, I will schedule for a future date another VIRTUAL: Parent Talk Social meetup if you are on the Wait List.
Thanks dear for love & respect towards teacher’s, Good to hear your kids teacher is taking online here in India also many teachers were not aware of zoom online even I was not aware of it,but was lucky I am local guide connect lg attended virtual meet up, so share with my friends, & teachers friend also as I am not working but share how they take teaching online.
Here summer vacation are going on school are closed from 15 th April to June 15th for kids but this year in March 15 th school was shut down ,grade 10 th exam board exam were going on, but for them also 25 th March was last day.
Now only grade 10 th are given online class. Rest all class teachers are preparing online lesson sitting at home .
My few students send me on whatsup drawing & parents ask tips to keep them busy .
Your kids drawing is good I love it.
I was trying to enter meeting but couldn’t no problem.
Thanks @Sagir for your kind words. We had a full house on Saturday and the virtual meetup lasted over 90 minutes again. Too many interesting parenting stories to tell and toys to share. There was a lot of laughing in between.
Yes! There will be a future VIRTUAL: Parent Talk Social coming soon!
I email out the Google Hangouts link to only the 9 Local Guides who attend my virtual meetup. I do not post the Hangouts link publicly because only 9 Local Guides + me can attend.
I hope you had as much fun as I did last Saturday. I learned a lot from everyone. Listening to each of your current parenting experiences reinforced for me that we are all going through similar parenting issues under these uncertain times.
I want to also thank you for providing me with your photos to share of our meetup.
For all those who were on the Waitlist for this virtual meetup, please let me know what upcoming Saturdays you are available. Again, the 2nd VIRTUAL: Parent Talk Social has to be scheduled on a Saturday at 7 am PDT (San Francisco Time).
