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Home Schooling: But I’m Not a Teacher, How Can I Teach My Children? (Part 2 In a Series)
Did you used to be a teacher? You must need special qualifications to home school, right? Variations of this question come up frequently when I tell people I home school. The truth though is that no, I was not a teacher, and though I do have a graduate degree, I don’t have any special training...
Surviving Quarantine as a Sibling
Siblings of individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) are at an increased risk of developing emotional and mental health problems. According to the 2019 study on PWS sibling well-being, participants showed incredibly high rates of distress and lower than average resilience (Murphy, Thornton & Thornton, 2019.) The outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent quarantine may make the...
Help! My kids are Schooling at Home and I don’t Know What to Do!
One of the biggest changes that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought is changes to the way our kids are educated. Most students spent all day at school, in a classroom, surrounded by other students, and with a teacher leading their learning. As schools around the country shut down, parents were forced into a variety of...