Rebecca, 43, is raising her daughter in Oakland, California, with her longtime partner, while working full-time and overseeing virtual kindergarten.My daughter Willa is 5-and-a-half and doing remote learning for kindergarten. We started the school year in early August with one half-hour Zoom class a day, which was just kind of to make sure kids knew how to use Zoom. In the beginning, she would hide from the Zoom. She did not like the idea that people could see her.
The parents were instructed to log into four different platforms to access student daily activities and student homework and writing exercises. There were porch pickups for art activities and weekly lesson plans. It’s up to me and my partner Eric to go through these packets with her and do all this homework, which the kids actually share the next day in class, so there’s more pressure to do them. After the Zoom calls in the morning, she doesn’t want to do homework.
One thing that adds to the stress is I have some friends, moms of kids who went to preschool with Willa, and their social media presence is picture-perfect: little desk, organization, kids doing homework. It all looks so perfect and easy. That’s really hard to deal with. I actually need to call up my best friends and I’m like, “Oh my gosh, is this as hard for you as it is for me?” and they’re like, “Oh my god, it’s a mess.” That makes me feel like I’m not the only one trying to hold it together.
As a full-time lawyer, I’m getting emails every day with requests and questions. At work, it’s reactive, day to day, putting out fires instead of doing bigger projects that I really should be making progress on. If something comes up at work, I’ll put Willa on a screen, which doesn’t feel good. Luckily, we have an outdoor patio here, so she can play outside while I try to do work. We got a covid kitten, Chia, at the end of May.
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