Pandemic Perspectives: Warehouse Worker + Child Welfare Attorney + 4th Grade Teacher

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 17 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Maddi works full-time in a warehouse picking product to be shipped for GAP while her three little boys try to make sense of the changes in their lives; Sarah is pregnant with her second child and working to meet the needs of vulnerable children in her community; Robyn is a 20-year elementary school teaching veteran learning the new ways of distance learning with her fourth grade class. All three are also moms whose home lives, work lives, and futures have been upended by COVID-19. Find out what’s hard, what’s hopeful, and what life is like for Maddi, Sarah, and Robyn in Episode 06 of Pandemic Perspectives.

This episode was recorded on April 30, 2020.

A NOTE ON EPISODES RELEASED DURING COVID-19: Things change so quickly these days–including recommendations for health and safety, as well as our own thoughts and feelings–so you may hear things that feel a bit dated if you’re catching up on older episodes. Just know that we’re experiencing this in real time just like you, and that we’re working hard to follow the latest recommendations for the safety of our families and our communities.

AND ALSO: Our Pandemic Perspective guests are moms just like you, doing their best with the resources they have. Their opinions do not necessarily represent those of the podcast, and the information they offer should not be taken as advice, medical or otherwise.

LINKS MENTIONED:

Child welfare attorney Sarah recommends reaching out to the following agencies if you’re interested in helping support at-risk families during this time:

Your local child welfare agency
Your local juvenile or family court
Your local foster parent association
Your local CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocate) program

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Sarah Powers and I'm Megan Francis and you're listening to a special
0:06.0	series from the Mom Hour Podcast called Pandemic Prospectives. In this series of
0:10.2	episodes we're talking to parents and people from around the world whose lives are
0:13.8	affected by the COVID-19 global pandemic in a way that might not make it into your social media
0:18.8	feeds quite as often.
0:20.3	You'll hear from families on the front lines experiencing an unprecedented time in a very specific way,
0:25.6	and you'll hear what's challenging as well as was hopeful. We can't wait to share their stories with you.
0:30.0	Welcome to pandemic perspectives from the Mom Hour.
0:35.0	Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Powers and you are listening to Pandemic
0:38.2	perspectives on the Mom Hour.
0:40.0	Today I am talking with Maddie, a mom of three from Ohio.
0:44.0	Maddie, thank you so much for being here and tell us a little bit about your family,
0:48.1	how many kids you have and what you do for a living.
0:51.2	Thank you so much for having me.
0:53.7	My name's Maddie.
0:54.7	I have three boys ranging from six, five,
0:58.6	and eight months old.
0:59.6	We have what most people consider a blended family. I like to call it a yours mine and ours so our
1:05.6	oldest is my boyfriend's son and then the middle is my son and our youngest is our son.
1:11.2	I love it. So we co-parent with both of the oldest two's other parents and
1:16.9	that's just a weekly battle every week just getting them back taking them over
1:21.0	there but but it's just become life.
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