Pivoting Your Parenting: How to Stay Sane in a Quarantine

Who doesn't like school in their pajamas? As teens enter week nine of the COVID shutdown, parents are seeing the novelty of stay-at-home school wearing off — and trying to deal with the consequences. In this episode, counselors Olivia Huie and Cara Morales share insights as educators and moms on how to help quarantined teens cope and parents stay sane! Week nine of the shelter-in-place has almost everyone on edge. What seemed like a dream come true to teenagers has become more like an unbearably monotonous version of Groundhog Day. High school students are now reporting a host of conflicting reactions to being isolated from their normal outlets for support. Some are anxious and depressed; others are bored and unmotivated. How can parents deal with such a myriad of issues and manage their own work-from-home schedule simultaneously? JSerra counselors Olivia Huie and Cara Morales tag-team in this Plugged In episode to offer sound and timely advice for working moms and dads with kids. With humor and wisdom, and their own kids interrupting this Zoom-recorded podcast, they share from the heart about the real challenges and surprising successes of managing life in lockdown.