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5 HACKS For AUTISM And School REFUSAL (School Phobia) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Thanks. In this video, I'm sharing five,
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  a hacks for autism and school refusal.
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  We've all been there buckle up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  ask me world. My name is Don.
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  Okay guys, what is going on? I am really, really excited this
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  video because I've seen a lot of parents and kind of like
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  caregivers who take the kids to school, and the kids are on the,
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  you know, on the autism spectrum and I have a school phobia,
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  right? I had to school phobia when I
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  was a kid, it was really difficult for me to go to school
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  and stay in school. And so I was I was just like,
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  completely agitated, irritated triggered the whole time and
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  this Didn't work. Well, my mental health wasn't
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  good. And for my condition, if I think
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  Asperger syndrome and ADHD, it just didn't go.
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  Well. Okay, so I'm sure we five hacks
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  and this is only life-changing for people as well.
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  So hopefully this will help you to no end and yeah, leave me a
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  Okay cool. So the first one is
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  understanding the triggers. First thing to do is create a
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  list of all the scary. This is non-scary tasks that
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  take place in the school. So ask the child say hey, can
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  you help me make, can you help me make a little?
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  List of all of the, you know, the scary things versus the non
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  scary things that you do in school, could be walking down
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  the hallway, going to class sitting next to other kids,
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  doing certain activities, PE Whatever.
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  By doing this, you're understanding what their
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  triggers actually are. The second thing is to color
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  subject on a chart where you write all the subjects that
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  they're doing in school are all the things that they do in
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  school and then you get them to color in like green for the ones
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  they enjoy and then read for the ones that are bad, which is
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  basically meaning that what they experience when they're In that
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  lesson. And maybe if you pinpoint, why
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  there's dozens of bad, not just because the fact that some
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  people just don't like certain lessons.
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  It could be more of a detailed fact that maybe there's a
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  certain kind of issue of that room, you know, can be sensory.
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  That is the best way to do it. Another way is to create a worry
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  book now, writing down all of the issues in one book and you
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  can also try and personalize the book by like, you know, putting
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  stickers and stuff on it and making it kind of like there's,
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  you know, if they're really into Pokemon and Minecraft will get
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  Pokemon Minecraft stickers. Stick them all over the book and
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  then they'll kind of want to write in that book and write,
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  although Down and this does a few things.
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  The first thing is that it gets rid of all the worries from
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  their heads. So they stop kind of thinking
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  about and getting anxious about things in the head, but also
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  allows you to detailed go through the things that they are
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  struggling with in the school. Super, super dope.
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  Okay, the next thing I want to talk about the next hack I'm
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  going to talk about is creating strategies for home, use to come
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  anxiety and relaxation. Right?
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  So we need to do is you know, use things that help relax, like
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  go for a walk or playing in the park or riding your bike.
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  So Thing that click create more of a an exercise thing which
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  helps move oxygen around the body and how to create cam, but
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  cam at home because what you don't want is, I'm coming home
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  and having that stress. They had in school at home
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  because then it makes a home run and come to a place and there's
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  no relaxation at all and all other time.
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  When we relax, we get chance to reset step back and just kind of
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  really assess the situation and come down and start again.
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  The next thing I would say is, maybe why not build Legos or
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  play Minecraft, you know, doing something that really helps you.
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  Relax, but also gives you focus to key in the fact that you are
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  relaxing. But you're also focusing your
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  energy. These are really good.
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  Another one is to schedule quiet time into your day.
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  So they can go in their room where they know they're safe.
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  Then they know that they are calm Collective and then got
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  their room and chill and play and that is their space.
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  But you need to kind of like, you know, if you think about it,
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  bedrooms are one of the places where we kind of spent the least
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  amount of time a week because, you know, you've got a bedroom
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  when you go to try and sleep, but when you're you know,
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  suffering anxiety. You having issues with going to
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  school. One of the things you really
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  want is somewhere at home, which is just your Haven, your safe
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  haven, where you can just go and chill out and just have that you
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  time, right? So make sure that they do
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  schedule in time to go in their room to chill out because it
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  could even be like a teepee tent in the living room with like
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  some cushions in it. Real whatever works do it, but
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  schedule it in don't forget about this is important.
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  Okay, so the next hack is to communicate with the school
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  directly so you could contact the senko to special educational
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  needs. Coordinator at the school and
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  make them aware of all the issues that you've collected
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  from hack. Number one.
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  We took about the issues. Now.
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  You also need to find out what has been done so far to
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  accommodate the needs of the child within the school because
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  then you'll have like a detailed outline of what has currently
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  been done? Where the issues lie and where
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  you should go forward from. This is how you create a plan of
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  action will consult with the direct line of Staff, who deals
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  with your child on a day-to-day basis and discuss what
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  strategies they've used. Because you never know, because
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  that Essence doing with your child in an environment that
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  you're not familiar with or have never been in with your child.
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  This person may have strategies that they've developed with your
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  kid that you could use somewhere else.
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  But also that you could make a note of so that the teachers do
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  change, then you can, you know, replace the the personal
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  learning plan with one, you now have with the person who work
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  with them on the strategies, if you get me and the other one is
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  to literally simply ask your child, what support, they feel,
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  they need when in school by asking the child directly, they
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  met Be able to, if they are verbal, be able to tell you
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  exactly what the issues are, that they're having.
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  And maybe also say, like, hey, look, I have an issue with the
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  whole. I have an issue with the
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  assembly. I have an issue is lining up and
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  going into college could be anything, right, but they will
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  tell you that it directly, if they are able to order to draw
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  it out. And this is a really good one.
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  A lot of people just don't seem to want to ask children because
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  it may just look their mind because they're so busy worrying
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  about the situation at hand. Okay.
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  So next hack is adjustment. Now, you could look at having a
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  quiet time during the school day in a quiet.
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  Room. So, ask the school.
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  If they can accommodate a piece of the classroom or a room off
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  to the side of a corridor where your child could have just a few
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  minutes of just complete calm and relaxation.
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  So they can reset themselves. Like I was saying before and the
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  other hack just to kind of ground them a little bit.
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  So they can go breathe a little bit and everything is go, go go
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  all the time. Then they can come around, get
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  back into the classes and you know, see if it makes any
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  difference. I think it's worth a try.
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  That's not is use ear Defenders outside in the playground.
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  A lot of kids get triggered when I was in school.
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  Was triggered so much by the playground that I had to stay
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  indoors and play on the computers, to get me to a
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  composition. So I can go back into the class
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  and then learn. But, you know, I, I didn't have
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  any ID offenders under Patterson.
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  I'll have to fix it back then. So now they do, I would have
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  wanted offenders. So check that one out.
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  Another tip is later, start and early finish, time to avoid busy
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  school traffic. Now, School traffic is crazy.
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  There's parents, there's kids, there's traffic.
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  There's dogs are sometimes there's bicycles.
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  There's scooters everything you can possibly think of dropping
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  their kids off and it's hectic. Eric.
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  So if you can try and create a later start time and a bit of an
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  early finish time, you'll avoid those places of craziness.
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  Like I did this when I was a kid actually really worked.
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  Well for me, the other one is using reward systems to help
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  meet our guests. So I have a link for this.
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  If you check out the link down below.
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  I'll leave a link for my chart. I actually have a link where you
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  can download charts, which are like work for tasks chart where
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  you have like three things that you work for and once you've
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  completed all three of them you can then get the The thing you
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  want. It's a good way of creating, you
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  know, task success in a more structural visual format.
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  And then the other thing is older, students may like to use
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  apps for dealing with like, anxiety and stuff.
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  So making sure that school are aware that, you know, your
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  child, if they're a little bit older and they're using like a
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  tablet or a smartphone, they may want to use an app when they're
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  feeling stressed and that's okay.
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  Because I know what like phones and stuff are a bit of a No-No
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  in schools. But if you're using it for your
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  mental health and your well-being, then why not, you
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  know, okay. So the last one is a no-brainer.
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  Bring it, but I thought I'd add this in here.
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  Now. This is number five.
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  This hack is homeschooling. It's, maybe a choice for some
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  people, depending on your level of comfort, but a lot of the
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  time, it's a very good one, because a lot of the triggers
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  that are happening in school. I haven't, because it's in the
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  school environment. It's not at home in the
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  environment where the person feels their most comfortable,
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  you know, so if you're trying, you know, if we think about
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  this, if your result is to get your kid to feel as comfortable
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  and learn as best as possible, while the best environment is
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  going to be at home with their mum, or dad or whoever Abel's if
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  so to stay at home and teach them, I know this is not
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  possible for everybody. But I feel like the covid thing
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  has taught us a lot about homeschooling and how we could
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  potentially work from home and teach our kids from home.
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  So if this is something that you could do and as a stretch and it
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  would take away the stress from the school in the strain from
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  the school, you could always implement this and homeschooling
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  is a really good idea if you're thinking.
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  Hmm, maybe I could try some my kids.
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  So always remember guys if you're homeschooling, but then
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  you want to reintegrate your child back into mainstream
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  school, you know, early a day. Always remember that you need a
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  period of reintegration. So, prepare well for this and
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  don't forget because a lot of people do forget and it doesn't
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  work out really well. Guys.
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