It's day 13 of social distancing for us (and about Day 9 for most people who started being remote in the state last week).
The past few days have been okay. Yesterday and today both started with Yoga, breakfast, and coffee (yesterday I had yogurt and a donut, today was a fruit smoothie).
Yesterday morning there was a bit of a blow up at home. The kid was melting down about doing their math on Khan Academy, because they didn't want to take my recommendation to write it out on scratch paper. Husband started yelling from upstairs about how kid just needed to do it themself, and how I should just them to figure it out. All this, while I'm actively helping and calming the kid down by SHOWING them that it's easier if they write it out.
That got me frustrated, given how well the kid and I have been managing so far (with no direction from him), so I yelled back that if he wanted to steer the curriculum and how the kid was doing it, he was welcome to come downstairs and manage it. To which he responded that the kid just needed to do it themself so no one needed to be down helping.
Once they accepted that the scratch paper helped, the rest of yesterday was smoother. There was a "field trip" to the Louvre, which they enjoyed so much that they went back to the site today.
Today, there's also been some science time, from a video and project involving wind and storms, computer programming, and a virtual visit to the New England Aquarium to see the octopus feeding. Kiddo has also been doing some math on Sumdog today, which was our concession for their getting through yesterday's math.
We've been practicing our violins for about 10 minutes most days as well, and I finally ordered a collapsible stand, because balancing it on our bookshelf is a pain in the ass.
Fewer fires at work this week, so I'm slowly slogging through some other work tasks between dealing with work issues coming up due to the COVID-19 situation.
We'll all get through this.
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