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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Reframing COVID School Year Success

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Online classes, emailed homework, interrupted friendships, cancelled activities—these are the hallmarks of the COVID school year. But as we acknowledge the losses, are there ways to uncover the successes? Christine and Asha talk about pandemic schooling. They discuss this school year in the context of growth, reframe the skills kids are gaining, and share some unexpected bright spots as spring approaches. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.

0:09.7

And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:16.6

We share practical ways to declutter your home schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

0:22.4

And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.

0:26.5

Good morning, Christine.

0:28.2

Hey, Asha. How are you?

0:30.1

I'm doing okay this morning. How are you doing?

0:33.6

I'm okay. And shockingly, I am dressed. I am ready for the day. I am in yet another sweater

0:39.6

blazer, which people on Instagram will understand is a big joke with me and Sarah Powers of the

0:43.9

mom hour. We are just we just won't let this thing die. But anyway, all right. Well, I am dressed in

0:50.4

that I am wearing fabric on my body, but I'm not going to describe exactly what it

0:55.1

looks like.

0:57.7

Anyway, friends, you know, by the time, this is, it's actually sort of a big day because I feel like,

1:04.6

you know, at this, at this stage, by the time this airs, many of us are approaching the one-year

1:10.2

anniversary of the COVID lockdown, which is,

1:12.9

is on the one hand, an amazing thing to actually say out loud. On the other hand, it just sort of is

1:19.9

where we are. And I think, I don't know, I know around here we've been thinking about it.

1:24.7

Specifically, we've been talk, I've been talking a lot with my kids about it because it was when the when the

1:28.9

schools closed and so we thought this would be a good moment to come back and sort of revisit

1:33.9

the topic of schooling in this particular pandemic moment.

1:39.4

I feel like since we last talked about it in the fall, it has changed so much.

1:45.4

You know, there's a lot of diversity across different states and school districts. And specifically, I thought we could

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