For tomorrow: Wanted to share my agenda for those parents who are working from home and have kids under 10 yrs old. Anyone is welcome to join me at 11am ET (3/20/20) for a quick 20-30 mins session of kids workout. This allow kids to do some stretching and show off some of their best workout with other kids.

Today I had a slight modification on the schedule. I know social distancing is quite difficult for many people including kids. So I came up with an idea to do virtual art and physical ed session with my girls and her friend (30 mins ea). This allows me to keep them occupied since they have almost zero work to do from school yet. I can connect with them for a bit taking 30 mins time in between work. Kids can also have some social time with their friends since they’ve been holed up at home for days now. This is a test run so I can get a feel of how to possibly lead more virtual sessions to other kids. My goal is to help any parents in anyway to help relieve scrambling activities for kids during this difficult time. Help is always something I enjoy doing for anyone.

So here is the schedule for today. It kept them occupied from 8:30am – 2:45pm (a full school hour — woohoo!)

• Get familar with Google Classroom
• Math sheets found online and old summer workbook
• Independent reading
• ELA practice
• Virtual art session (today’s theme is draw picture of each other)
• Online exercise session
• Educational Apps on iPad (in their school they call it “Media”) — see list below of what the girls use

One thing I am thankful for today that allows my kids see is my company CEO did a book reading session to employee’s kids via zoom. I am happy to see how every parents are scrambling to keep these kiddos occupied. I feel in this difficult time we should all help one another. With this book reading session, it opened up my girl’s eyes kind of understand that they are not the only one going through mommy/daddy wfh and kids stuck at home. I’ve been repeatedly telling and explaining to them that we are going through a whole new lifestyle and this might be a long while before things will be back to normal.

Another thing happened today. I caught my kids raiding my fridge and pantry for snacks. Now I have to do some portion control and hide non-perishable snack for now. Disclaimer: I am not trying to starve my kids just controlling them by NOT opening every single snack they see without finishing the old one. I had to find a rubbermaid 6 gallon bin and put all the unopened snacks away for now.