22: My Kid Hates Remote Learning. What Do I Do?

Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Raising Tweens & Teens

Dr. Lisa Damour/Reena Ninan

Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting, Mental Health

4.7 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Parents are finding it hard to get their children to feel motivated about school, especially when they are learning remotely. Dr. Lisa explains strategies that might help and how parents can help kids keep the academic train on its tracks. Lisa and Reena talk about supporting children for whom school is an uphill battle, even under normal conditions, and what parents should do if they are the ones who feel like they are drowning. Reena talks about the emotional experience she had selling an old sofa and how it put into perspective the struggle many parents are going through. For Children Everywhere - UNICEF works in 180 different countries and territories to save children’s lives and protect their rights. https://www.unicef.org/ Join us this Friday, Jan 15th, 2021 at 3pm EST on Instagram Live @asklisapodcast. We will be taking your parenting questions live! Additional resources: https://www.drlisadamour.com/ Ask Lisa is produced by Www.GoodTroubleProductions.com Be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @AskLisaPodcast @LDamour @ReenaNinan Sent from my iPhone See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	This is Ask Lisa, a podcast to help people understand the psychology of parenting, now in the midst of a pandemic.
0:12.2	Psychologist Dr. Lisa DeMore, author of two New York Times best-selling parenting books, takes your questions.
0:19.7	And I'm co-host, Rina Ninan, a journalist and mom of two.
0:23.7	Some of what we talk about comes from raising children ourselves. Most of the time, I'll be getting
0:28.5	answers to your parenting questions. So send your questions to Ask Lisa at Dr.Lisademore.com.
0:36.3	Episode 22, My kid hates remote learning.
0:39.0	What do I do?
0:45.3	There's a chance you might hear one of my kids.
0:47.2	We're remote learning this week after the holidays.
0:49.8	The district decided we've got to stay home because too many people traveled over the holidays.
0:55.0	It has been crazy. I've cooked like four times and, you know, it's only two o'clock at this point.
1:02.3	Oh, Rina, man, I feel you here. I have an 11th grader who has yet to set foot in her school
1:07.6	building all year and a fourth grader who had nine days in the building this fall and their home.
1:16.0	And I cannot tell you how grumpy they both were about starting school up again after the winter break.
1:24.5	I mean, you can't blame them.
1:25.8	Everyone was dreading it.
1:27.1	It was a sense of dread.
1:28.8	And in our inbox, we got this letter. It says, Dear Lisa, and Rina, my eighth grade daughter
1:32.8	spent the winter break dreading her return to remote schooling. She hates online school.
1:37.3	She refuses to do some of her work. And now has failing grades in two classes. There's still
1:42.3	time for her to salvage her grades, but January is
1:44.6	already off to a really bad start. Normally we'd come up with some sort of punishment, like
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