Welcome to the Wired Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support

exceptional children. I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it.

Welcome, Alexander Bergman, master IEP coach and Mother of Three, and two are actually wired

differently, so she really gets it. Today we're going to talk about what to consider for

pandemic schooling in 2020. So welcome, Alex. Hi, Holly. Thank you so much for having me today.

Thank you for joining us because, whoa,

everybody is feeling overwhelmed right now. Parents, professionals, they're stressed about what to do

and how COVID is impacting education. Yes. Yes. So we're seeing this all over the place, right? We see it on Facebook, on Instagram.

There's lots of, lots of stress happening. Lots of emergency phone calls between friends and family, too.

That's right. And, you know, and that's understandable because what do we do?

Right?

There's no easy answer to all of this.

And, you know, parents really, they're not all teachers.

I know that I'm not a teacher.

And we can't do everything, you know, as far as figuring out how to balance all the things. So I think there's a lot

of stress happening right now. And when we're under a lot of stress, decision making can feel

overwhelming. Yes. Definitely. You know, we really need to consider all the options and then make the best decision for our family.

Exactly. And there's a lot we don't know, right? We're kind of scrambling to figure out school systems and

all that, all of the things. So, you know, it's hard to take a deep breath, but we really need to and know that

this is going to sound kind of strange, but this is how I think of it. We know what we know

when we know it. And then we're all just going to do the best that we can. And when we look

at this situation that way, I think it can bring us a little peace.

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