#49 PARENTING TEENS & ONLINE LEARNING with Kimberley Acres
Talk About Talk - Communication Skills Training - A podcast by Dr. Andrea Wojnicki - Tuesdays
Learning strategist & parenting coach Kimberley Acres helps us in this time of physical distancing and online schooling with parenting philosophies and online learning tactics, including optimizing our children’s workspace, setting boundaries, and celebrating! REFERENCES & LINKS Kimberley Acres * LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberley-acres-1793a0104/ * Email – [email protected] Books & Resources * The Journey of the Heroic Parent by Brad M. Reedy, PhD * How to Talk So Teens Will Listen & Listen So Teens Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish * The Four Agreements– A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom – Don Miguel Ruiz * The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown * WEBSITE: Kids Health * PODCAST: The Life Coach School with Brooke Castillo Talk About Talk & Dr. Andrea Wojnicki * Email – [email protected] * Free Communication Coaching via the weekly Email Blog – https://talkabouttalk.com/newsletter * Website – https://talkabouttalk.com * Podcasts – https://www.talkabouttalk.com/communication-skills-podcast/ * Facebook Group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/2512948625658629/ INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT Dr. Andrea Wojnicki: Thank you so much, Kim, for joining us here today to share your expertise. Kim Acres: Thank you for having me. AW: All right, let’s start with a general question. What should we as parents be thinking about in terms of our role in our children’s education? KA: That is a great question for today, particularly after most of us have been housebound with our children, watching them and ourselves struggle through what education looks like in the time of COVID-19. I’d like to take that question and sort of put it into two parts. The first part is the role of the parents and the second part is our children’s education. It is sometimes challenging for us to really recognize that it is our children’s education, and in my experience, working with parents through hundreds of parent teacher interviews, the thing I noticed the most that’s such a challenge. For parents is to let themselves off the hook. Ultimately, our children’s education is their education. And the moment we let ourselves off the hook, we empower our children to own their own education and to own their own learning.
