{"id":30556,"date":"2020-03-31T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=30556"},"modified":"2020-03-31T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T04:00:15","slug":"how-parents-are-handling-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/how-parents-are-handling-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents juggling jobs with children plead for teachers' help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Balancing between fulltime jobs and children\u2019s education has become a challenge during this lockdown period. Parents are now sharing their experience about what it is like to juggle between these two important aspects of life.<\/strong>
\nParents are now learning about how to juggle between fulltime jobs, raising kids amid the spread of coronavirus. With almost a third of the world already placed in some sort of restriction and 1.5 billion students out of schools according to data from UNESCO<\/a>, these parents have been forced to adapt to the new realities.<\/p>\n

Parents balancing work and children\u2019s education<\/h2>\n

The problem is more pronounced with the parents who are also on lockdown and working from home with their children. Adapting to these changes has been frustrating and a new experience for a lot of them. One such parent is Krista Stark, of Webb City, who works 40 hours a week.<\/strong>
\nStark has now been confined at home due to the coronavirus pandemic with her two kids who go to school in the Webb City School district. Stark, who is now working from home is adapting to new changes where she has to create a routine for her own children and still be able to work.<\/p>\n

Experience gained from tutoring kids<\/h2>\n

To her, the experience is very enlightening and described teaching her kids new skills as something that required a lot of patience. She argued the experience can also be nourishing to parent-children relationships and could help strengthen the bond between the two. She called on other parents to be patient with their kids during this difficult period.
\nShonda Rhimes, an American film producer, also took to Twitter<\/a> to vent her frustration about juggling these roles.<\/p>\n

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Been homeschooling a 6-year old and 8-year old for one hour and 11 minutes. Teachers deserve to make a billion dollars a year. Or a week.<\/p>\n

— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) March 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n