A Message from the CLPS Academic Success Center
You are blessed to have your children already involved in a school where you have such close connection to the curriculum and are already the primary teacher of your student, with the school serving as your partner and companion in raising and discipling your children. You already have systems in place for your kids to be at home working on academic tasks. You are miles ahead of many, many families whose kids attend five-day schools and who do not have these habits and systems in place.
Suggestions for having your kids at home are things that you probably already know.
The Academic Success Center is open! Mollie Shaw will be seeing individual students as long as the building is open and available. You may make an appointment or give her a call if you want to talk about how things are going at your house. Her cell phone is 724-787-3761.
Suggestions for having your kids at home are things that you probably already know.
- Love, disciple and train your children. Consistency in your child training and daily routines will provide security, standard expectations and better relationships as you navigate these uncertain days. For example,
- Have meals and bedtime at the same times that you do on your satellite days.
- Provide lots of physical activity breaks, especially if your kids are skipping sports.
- Continue to provide spiritual training through habits of prayer, worship, bible study and watching sermons together. Let them see this as your priority.
- Have meals and bedtime at the same times that you do on your satellite days.
- Be flexible. Know that there will be additional stress just from being together more hours and days than usual. Have a plan for how to have “down time” from others in the home. Make ‘room time’ a positive thing so there is space during the day to not have to be coordinating together constantly on every detail of your day.
- Don’t feel like it is your job to “entertain” your kids. They are creative, innovative and capable so let them entertain themselves during free time. Your job is to make a safe world for them to learn to do so.
- Be grateful and positive. Avoid talking about this season as a burden. Kids may begin to feel that they are part of the burden because they are home.
- Let them be kids by making the decisions for them. Sometimes parents allow young kids to decide what they will have for lunch, what they will do during the day, etc. This can be a wonderful tool to transition kids to becoming independent adults when done intentionally and purposefully, but it can also steal their childhood by asking them to worry about things that we should be deciding for them when they are small. Be sure that you are being deliberate about your goals when you hand over adult responsibilities to your kids. You are the authority in the home.
- Continue to focus on your student’s growth, not on perfect performance. Be filled with grace, rewarding effort and attitude, not outcomes. Those who never quit will accomplish all that God has for them to do.
The Academic Success Center is open! Mollie Shaw will be seeing individual students as long as the building is open and available. You may make an appointment or give her a call if you want to talk about how things are going at your house. Her cell phone is 724-787-3761.