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Remote Learning Strategies for Parents

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A week of remote learning has come and gone, leaving a city full of exhausted parents and restless kids in its wake. Homeschooling is a daunting prospect at any time, and especially when you’ve got about 100,000 other things on your mind—from quarantine concerns to caring for sick loved ones to managing your own work-from-home schedule or coping with sudden unemployment. We hope these top tips from Katharine Hill, M.S., M.A.T., will offer some solace as you head into Remote Learning Week Two.

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Helping our Healthcare Workers

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Our healthcare workers are the best! They’re superheroes. They risk their own health to keep us all safe. And although not everyone has the skills to do what they do, everyone has the means to support them, whether that be by making masks, donating to medical institutions, or writing cards of thanks. Here are ways we can all help.

Birthing in the Time of Coronavirus

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Are you an expectant parent in the time or coronavirus? Are you wondering if you should leave town? Walk into a "birth partners allowed" emergency room so you can be torgether during delivery? We've got some answers for you!

We've been working really hard on this Park Slope Parents Birthing Toolkit. It's a work in progress as things are changing all the time. I'm trying to fold in the most current information we're hearing about up til early this morning.

It lives here: PSP Birth Online Toolkit

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Here’s what it includes:

- Some opening comfort
- Should I stay or should I go?
- Should I try to have my baby at a birth center or do a homebirth?
- Should I be induced?
- Pre-planning for your BEST birth
- Once you go into labor
- In the hospital for delivery
- In the hospital with baby
- Some considerations for when you get home
- Feedback from members
- Final thoughts
- Resources

Scheduling Your Teen Through COVID-19: Suggestions from our Parents.

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Uh oh. You and your teen are cooped up in your apartment. You can’t send them outside, or to school, or even to the movies. Many of us have decided to try to make a schedule (example below). Here’s some scheduling tips to keep your teen occupied-- if you can convince them to keep a schedule, that is!

Coronavirus Update March 23, 2020

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A PSP Update…

As we take a “pause” from life as we know it (per Gov. Cuomo) I just wanted to give some updates and thoughts about how to cope, how to help, and how to continue to smile (maybe?) in the face of all this uncertainty.

You are not alone in being anxious, disappointed, fearful, frustrated, and uncertain. When I say “we’ll get through this,” in my messages it’s not to say that it won’t suck, that we won’t grieve over things like prom, high school graduation, dance recitals, and birthday parties, or that we won’t have to make sacrifices that we never thought we would have to make. Together, though, we can support each other, be excellent to each other, and find ways to thrive in the face of adversity.