I am profoundly struck by the massive academic, social, and emotional toll this is taking on our children.
It’s important to recognize that while my children are not all right, they’re still better off than many. They still have a roof over their heads, food on the table, and access to the technology required for distance learning. There are a great number of children who are not all right because they only get one meal a day, do not have the tools required for learning, or they live with an abusive parent and cannot get access to help.
Like any child with a specific learning disability, or other diagnoses that make typical learning a challenge, his needs cannot be met at the kitchen table at home with a parent who is not trained in special education. Despite our best efforts, and the school’s, his goals — academic, executive functioning, social/emotional, physical and occupational therapy, and speech, so carefully crafted and monitored by an educational team — are not being achieved.
But socializing has gone online, which brings a host of challenges not normally seen at such an intense level. With the only opportunity to socialize being through electronics, I have seen one of my children begin to isolate, having little interest in interacting via Messenger Kids, while I have seen the other often misinterpret social cues because they are coming in the form of text messages.
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