jainie miranda
Stories (2/0)
IS POSSIBLE TO SAFELY REOPEN SCHOOLS
As a parent of two kids and a middle School Science Educator in an inner-city school, I do understand how important is to keep students in the classroom. Students, especially the lower grades, are developing social skills, routines, and basic academic skills. The main issue is how we can safely re-open schools. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, I had over 30-35 students in each of my classes (150 students total) and most of our teachers struggle every day to have the essential equipment to teach our kids. Most teachers have to spend a substantial part of their earning to buy school supplies, teaching materials, and other resources to support teaching and learning. Furthermore, teachers have to spend extra hours planning for instruction (two different teaching environment), identifying and preparing themselves to apply modifications and best practices, and contacting parents. How school districts and teachers will balance in-person instruction, maintain social distancing, and other health practices.
By jainie miranda4 years ago in Education
Why moms are feeling exhausted and unhappy
A monster under recovery As a parent sometimes we feel mentally and physically exhausted. Sometimes parenting, especially for single parents, it's hard to balance family, work, and self-care. We stop thinking about our physical and mental health. The lack of support, extremely high expectations for new parents, opinions, and trauma may trigger hate or dislike feeling from parents towards their kids. Unfortunately, we never took the time to understand or even try to walk their shoes for one day to better understand why they are having those feelings towards their kids; instead, we call them evil, or bad parents, We don't show any compassion, and just spend all our energy judging their behavior. But Why a parent can say those things to their kids or why they become so distant? It's important as a society to understand what triggers a parent to say, "I hate my kid," or "My kids destroy my life". Those words sound bad right, but I used to say them all the time……But what change? What made me realize that I was projecting my frustrations, mental exhaustion, and personal trauma to my kids? What makes me realize that I was not a mean or bad mom (I was still providing for my kids) instead I was just an exhausted mom that commit one the biggest mistakes that parents can do……put others first. How people pretended for me to be an amazing and caring mom when I was having problems loving myself and managing my emotions?
By jainie miranda4 years ago in Families