Raising Well-Adjusted Children in Spite of the Pandemic

Although many children found distance schooling to be a challenge, they also discovered that they were able to get their work done much more quickly.

According to a survey, when faced with boredom, many children took up new hobbies, enjoyed the outdoors, and even tackled chores. Jeremiah Lawrence/Unsplash

“My mom is seriously thinking of homeschooling this fall,” a friend recently told me. This was a surprise, for although the family had previously homeschooled, they had chosen traditional schooling for their children in recent years.

Curious, I asked my friend if her mother found traditional homeschooling different from the distance education that most families experienced in the spring of 2020. “Totally!” she replied. Her mother had concluded that juggling expectations from multiple teachers is much harder than navigating the homeschooling scene as the teacher. Faced with this knowledge, and wary of the potential disruptions of classroom-based learning, the mother decided to do the teaching herself once again.