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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Impact Of Distance Learning, Lost Social Interactions and Help For Parents

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s Phil in the Blanks podcast, Dr. Phil discusses the impact of distance learning, lost social opportunities, and helping parents know how to maximize homeschooling during the COVID19 pandemic. Hear from a school principal and a few teachers who offer insight and ideas to help cope with these unusual times. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, I've heard from parents that have four or five children all under 10.

0:19.7

Some of them going to different schools in different grades, all with different curriculum

0:24.6

and protocols, and they've only got one computer.

0:28.3

You choose is your best friend.

0:29.9

For parents, it can be really intimidating.

0:32.4

Leave your guilt at the door.

0:34.4

What would you say to the parents if they were getting ready to undertake this home schooling?

0:39.4

What would you include?

0:51.4

Well, hello everybody and welcome to Fill In The Blanks.

0:53.9

This is a really special episode because I am talking about something that is affecting so many of you and that is home schooling.

1:02.9

Right now we are at least three weeks for most everybody into lockdown, isolation, shelter in place.

1:14.4

And that means that you're there so many of you with your children everywhere from kindergarten all the way through high school.

1:22.9

And most of the schools have led out for the year.

1:26.9

And that means a lot of different things and one of those is that you have become a teacher because home schooling has become the order of the day.

1:37.4

That's interesting because the people that have been teaching your child, your teen are people that spent at least four years training to do what your now experience.

1:52.4

And that's what I'm expected to do with no training at all.

1:57.4

These are people that were training your child in an environment that was designed for education.

2:05.4

It was devoid of distractions.

2:08.4

It was an educational environment with educational tools and materials.

2:13.4

Everything that was set up to favor learning.

2:19.4

And now you're teaching your child in an area that was not designed for learning.

2:24.4

It's full of distractions. It was where they were supposed to be at ease at home, relaxing, playing, interacting, socializing.

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