I did webinars, I read, I followed teachers on Instagram to see if there was something I could copy, something I could implement to ensure my children were getting the best out of this online experience.
Some days were more overwhelming than others, especially being a single mom to a seven-year-old boy diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, whose school just saw it fit to send the lessons via WhatsApp to us parents.
She suggested that we keep a diary to check our moods by expanding our emotional vocabulary, gain insights about our feelings over time, regulate our feelings and manage our mood each day, form habits of knowing what we are feeling at all times, and then to sit with or shift our emotions and make a note of what works.
During the second month of this whole online teaching shebang, I must say I felt as if I was finally getting the hang of it and I was so excited to go online and deliver my lessons to my children.
The greatest thing about it all was, at the end of each lesson, when my kids would tell me they understood, and I threw questions at them to test this theory and proved it to be true.