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

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  In this video, I'm sharing 5A hacks of for autism and school
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  refusal. We've all been there buckle up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ask me world.
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  My name is Don. I have autism ADHD OCD and
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  dyslexia, and I make weekly videos on this type of content.
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  Alright, on with the video. Okay guys, what is going on?
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  I am really excited to do this video because I've seen a lot of
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  parents and kind of like caregivers who take the kids to
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  school, and the kids are on the, you know, on the autism spectrum
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  and they have a school phobia, right?
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  Ida School phobia. When I was a kid, it was really
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  difficult for me to go to school and stay in school.
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  And so I was I was just like, completely agitated, irritated
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  triggered the whole time and this didn't work well, my mental
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  health wasn't good. And for my condition of having
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  Asperger's syndrome and ADHD it just didn't go.
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  Well, okay, so I'm sure we five hacks and this is going to be
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  life-changing for people as well.
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  So hopefully this will help you to no end and yeah.
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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 as non-scary tasks that take place
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  in the school. So ask the child say hey can you
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  help me make? Can you help me make a list of
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  all of the The scary things, versus the non scary things that
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  you do in school, could be walking down the hallway, going
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  to class sitting next to other kids, doing certain activities,
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  PE Whatever. By doing this, you're
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  understanding what their triggers actually are.
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  The second thing is to color subject on a chart where you
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  write all the subjects that they're doing in school are all
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  the things that they do in school and then you get them to
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  color in, like green for the ones they enjoy and then read
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  for the ones that are bad, which is basically meaning that what
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  the experience when they're in that lesson and maybe if you
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  pinpoint, why Listen to Bad, not just because the fact that some
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  people just don't like certain lessons, it could be more of a
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  detailed fact that maybe there's a certain kind of issue of that
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  room. You know can be Century, that is
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  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're not 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 sticking 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 worries down and then 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, they stuff kind of thinking about getting anxious
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  about things and head but also allows you to detailed go
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  through the things that they are struggling with in the school.
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  Super super dope. Okay, the next thing I want to
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  talk about, next hack I'm going to talk about is creating
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  strategies for home use to come 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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  Something that click create more of a An exercise thing which
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  helps move oxygen around the body and helps 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 because then
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  it makes a home run and come to a place and there's no
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  relaxation at all and all other time when we relax, we get a
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  chance to reset step back and just kind of really assess the
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  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 keep In the fact that you are
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  relaxing, but you're also focusing your energy, these are
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  really good. Another one is to schedule quiet
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  time into your day so they can go in their room where they know
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  they're safe, then they know that they are calm and
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  Collective and then got their room and chill and play and that
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  is their space. But you need to kind of like,
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  you know, if you think about it, bedrooms are one of the places
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  where we kind of spent the least amount of time awake.
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  Because, you know, you've got a bedroom when you go to try and
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  sleep, but when you're you know, suffering anxiety and you having
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  issues with going to school, one of the things you really We want
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  is somewhere at home which is just your Haven, you're 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 I make sure that they do
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  scheduling 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 or whatever works do it but schedule it in.
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  Don't forget about this is important okay so the next hack
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  is to communicate with the school directly so you could
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  contact these senko to special educational needs coordinator at
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  the school and Them aware of all the issues that you've collected
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  from hack. Number one, we took about the
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  issues. Now, you also need to find out
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  what has been done so far to accommodate the needs of the
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  child within the school because then you'll have like a detailed
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  outline of what has currently been done?
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  Where the issues lie and where you should go forward from.
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  This is how you create a plan of action consult with the direct
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  line of Staff, who deals with your child on a day-to-day basis
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  and discuss what strategies they've used.
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  Because you never know, because that person is dealing with your
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  child in an environment that your are not familiar with or
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  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's
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  worked with them on the strategies if you get me and the
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  other one is to literally simply ask your child, what support,
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  they feel, they need when in school by asking the child
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  directly, they may be able to, if they are verbal be able to
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  Tell you exactly what the issues are that they're having.
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  You may be able to say, like, hey look, I have an issue with
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  the 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?
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  But they will tell you that it directly, if they are able to
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  order to draw it out. And this is a really good one, a
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  lot of people just don't seem to want to ask children because it
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  may just let their mind because they're so busy worrying about
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  situation at hand. Okay.
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  So the next hack is adjustment. Now you could look at having a
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  quiet time during the school day in a quiet room, so ask the
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  school, if they can accommodate. A piece of the classroom or a
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  room off to the side of a corridor where your child could
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  have just a few minutes of just complete calm and relaxation.
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  So they can reset themselves. Like I was saying before on the
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  other hack just to kind of ground them a little bit so they
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  can go breathe a little bit and everything is go, go go all the
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  time then they can come around, get back into the classes and
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  you know see if it makes any difference.
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  I think it's worth a try that's all it is.
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  Use ear Defenders outside in the playground.
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  A lot of kids get triggered when I was in school I was triggered
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  so much by the playground that I had to stay.
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  Doors and play on the computers, to get me to a composition.
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  So I can go back into the class and then learn but, you know, I,
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  I didn't have any a Defenders and if my parents don't know how
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  to fix it back there. And 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, there's dogs
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  are sometimes there's bicycles. There's scooters everything you
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  can possibly think of dropping their kids off, and it's hectic.
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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
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  craziness, like I did this when I was a kid actually really
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  worked. Well for me, the other one is
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  using reward systems to help meet our guests.
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  So I have a link for this. If you check out the link down
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  below, I'll leave a link for my chart.
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  I actually have a link where you can download charts which are
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  like work for task chart where you have like three things that
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  you work for and once you've completed all three of them, you
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  can then get the reward of the thing you want.
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  It's a good way of creating. You know, task success in if
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  more structural visual format and then the other thing is all
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  the students may like to use apps for dealing with, like,
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  anxiety and stuff. So making sure that school are
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  aware that, you know, your child, if they're a little bit
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  older and they're using like a tablet or a smartphone, they may
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  want to use an app when they're feeling stressed and it'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 mental health and
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  your well-being, then why not, you know?
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  Okay, so the last one is a no-brainer, but I thought I'd
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  add this in here 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,
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  if we think about this, if your result is to get your kid to
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  feel as comfortable and Learners best as possible, while the best
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  environment is going to be at home with their mum, or dad or
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  whoever is able. If so to stay at home and My
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  nose is not possible for everybody, but I feel like the
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  covid thing has taught us a lot about homeschooling and how we
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  could 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 and 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 kid.
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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 renewed. Integration, so, prepare, well,
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  for this and don't forget because a lot of people do
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  forget, and it doesn't work out really well.
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