Transcript:

Hi, and welcome to the “Chaos, managed” podcast. The purpose of this podcast is to help families facilitate learning.

Many parents have been at home with their children for several weeks (or months). And, with summer upon us, children will continue to stay at-home. Summer camps are cancelled, and entertainment options will be limited as we navigate this “new" normal.

For many of us, lockdown learning has been chaotic. Parents are stressed, tired and burnt out. Some schools have been better prepared and organized, than others, at setting up virtual learning. Some teachers are delivering meaningful online instruction and learning engagements while others are bombarding our kids with worksheets with little to no instruction. So, we as parents are left much to our own devices. More than ever, we have to find things for our kids to do. We are having to give a lot more support to our kids; academic support---math, writing, science. At times, our homes are filled with chaos and feel like one giant science experiment gone wrong. How can the chaos be managed, for the weeks and months ahead? We hope to answer this question, one episode at a time. Helping families facilitate learning is the mission of this podcast.

Each episode will be 10 minutes or less, and the first episode will be available on Monday, May 18th. Cheers for now.