Raise your hand if you feel like you’ve been here before! Yup, us too. Rachel & Mindy bring some reminders and tips for this season of pandemic homeschooling or remote schooling or shut down schooling that feels familiar but also unwanted. We have two great Homeschooling Moments of the Week to kick off, two really wonderful ways to make this topic personal, and a View from the Near Bookend.

1:20 Yes! Rate and review us! It helps!

2:00 Homeschooling Moment of the Week: Rachel (a fun book on tall tales)

2:17 American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborn

3:15 HSMotW: Mindy (Jubilee with donut, donut face, and books)

4:35 Topic Talk: Deja Vu Times for Homeschooling and Parenting in General

7:27 S1E27 Remote Schooling Tips and Tricks with Meredith Monday Schwartz

9:00 Take a mental health sick day

9:39 S2E11 Two Types of Field Trips

10:20 Our kids feel the stress too

11:33 What do we need this week… not the entire next six months

11:55 Lean into the arts:helps emotionally

12:00 S2E4 Easy Art Appreciation

12:03 S218 Easy Music Appreciation

12:09 Let’s Make Art: Kids Water Color FREE!

13:07 S2E8 Why Do Something Hilarious?

14:11 Brouses’ fave family Bob’s Burgers episode: Christmas in the Truck

14:22 S2E3 Keeping (or Getting a Sense of Humor) with guest Betsy Jenkins

15:09 Cole Kids’ Costume-fest

16:46 How the Brouse Spa came to be

20:00 S2E1 Transitioning Into (or Out of) Homeschooling

20:21 COVID Homeschooling = Unlikely Unschoolers?

21:00 S1E20 Slightly Unusual Ways to Socialize

21:21 Make It Personal: Near Bookends (our kids pick up on how we feel so maybe self assess info intake)

23:31 Make It Personal: Far Bookends (set aside a family mental health evaluation day)

25:49 View from the (Near) Bookend: This will end and we can do it (again)

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