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How to assist yourself and your child if you get stuck with school work.

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Parents, I know….you have now realised how hectic it is playing the teacher role. Now with children still staying at home and schools sending work to the children to complete and to keep up to date with. You have probably realised too, how difficult those maths problems are, and trying to understand science and its methods and formulas, is very complicated. It feels like you’ve gone back to school and you’ve realised how much you have forgotten (and how much you don’t miss).

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How are we going to survive this?

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Last weeks Facebook Live Q&A, was a very difficult one, a heavy one. The few people that were on were disclosing their fears about their jobs and their finances. I felt helpless, as there was nothing I could say, but……… “Take one step at a time.”

So I decided today I am going to post all the necessary contacts for you regarding Relief-Funding-Loans and for those who are in Social Distress situations.

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ADULTS: “YOU TOO NEED TO BE HEARD.”

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I know you have probably been bombarded with information on how to “survive” this lockdown and possibly getting frustrated and irritated with information overload on COVID-19 and what to do or not to do to keep you safe, or you possibly getting tired of reading the same kind of information over and over again, and get quite bored or flustered with- “How to survive lockdown”.

I hear you!

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AFTER ALL THIS, DON’T LOSE YOUR MOJO

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It’s important to remember that after all of this isolation and lockdown, we must not forget to still be functional. A big fear is whether we are going to be able to function as normal again.

Will we remember how to drive?

Will we still have our job?

Our children fear whether they will be repeating the grade. 

Is this going to be like a “gap year” for most of us?

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