The Back to School Decision
Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness
Kim Holderness
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Are you struggling with what to do about school this year? Us too. So we invited Dr. Hope Seidel onto the podcast to provide some advice.
Dr. Seidel is a pediatrician at Cary Pediatrics in North Carolina, with a passion for coaching parents through parentingcoaches.com. She also hosts a podcast called Parenting in a Pandemic that I’ve found very helpful. How are you weighing the back to school decision at your house?
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About the Holderness Family : Penn, Kim, Lola, and Penn Charles Holderness create original music, parodies, and Vlogs for YouTube and Facebook to poke fun of themselves and celebrate the absurdity in circumstances most families face in their day to day life. They published "Christmas Jammies" in December 2013 and life hasn't been the same. Since then, their popular parodies, "All About That Baste", "Baby Got Class," and original music "Snow Day" have received national news coverage. Penn, the Dad, took a chance and left his job as a news anchor to join his wife Kim, the Mom, at their video production and digital marketing company, Greenroom Communications, LLC. Lola and Penn Charles are always happy, respectful and eat all of their vegetables (that last sentence is a lie).
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hi there. I'm Penn Holderness and I'm Kim Holderness. Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | Yes. So we talk about all kinds of issues that affect us. |
| 0:13.6 | Guess what's selfish. Well, guess what to know. This doesn't just affect us. This affects anyone |
| 0:18.8 | who has a child that goes to a school that has a thing that we have to figure out. |
| 0:25.9 | Are you asking yourself what the heck do I do about school? A lot of school districts are |
| 0:30.8 | putting the decision in parents hands, which is, you know, you can choose a virtual option, |
| 0:35.8 | you can try to send to school and then they're all coming up with like how they're going to |
| 0:39.4 | keep our kids and our community and our teachers safe. It's a lot. It's a lot. We've had, we've |
| 0:45.2 | already had a couple of these moments. I thought this was going to be college. Like college was |
| 0:49.6 | going to be the time that we had a tough time deciding. I'm ruined. Lola was six or something. |
| 0:56.5 | Five maybe. And we were trying to figure out which elementary school she was going to go to. |
| 1:01.3 | We have school choice in our area. Yeah. It's called controlled choice. I don't know what they have |
| 1:04.9 | now because we're over it. We're done with it. We've made our choice. But again, that's when |
| 1:09.7 | the school board changes, that all changes. But we would like we visited five schools. |
| 1:14.8 | I didn't visit them any colleges. No, I didn't either. And then when we got the letter that she |
| 1:20.3 | got into the school that she got into, like you were sweating. You have thought. She got into Harvard. |
| 1:25.5 | I know. But it was anyway details. So right now, I think a lot of parents, I know we are, we're |
| 1:32.5 | in constant conversation about deciding, do we just stay virtual or do we, do we take the option |
| 1:40.7 | of sending our kids with all the restrictions that, I mean, is that is that going to be healthy |
| 1:44.8 | and safe for them as well? So when I'm confused, what I do is I reach out to my friends. |
| 1:49.8 | Right. And I lied before doing this. A lot of people are going to hope or doctor. |
| 1:53.9 | Yes. And asking her because they don't want to make the decision. They want someone else to tell |
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