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Published: July 26, 2020, 1 p.m.

b'One of the questions I see asked most often in parenting forums these days is some variation on:\\n\\n"I\\u2019m worried about my child\\u2019s socialization now that it looks like daycares, preschools and schools have been closed for several months and will likely remain closed for several more months. Can someone please tell me if I really do need to worry about what the complete lack of socialization with other children will do to my [only] child?\\u201d\\n\\nSo we\'ll take a look at that, and then we\'ll go on to take a look at the other kinds of socialization that happen in school that you may not have even realized happens until we dig into the research on it.\\n\\n \\n\\nI also let you know about a new Pandemic Pods \'in a box\' course.\\xa0 A lot of parents are thinking of forming what are being called Pandemic Pods - a small group of children who are working together either in some kind of parent care exchange or with a hired teacher/tutor.\\n\\nAs I\'m sure you can imagine, there are a host of ways to set up these pods in a way that exacerbate existing inequalities that pervade the public school system.\\xa0 And there are also ways to set them up that might actually help us to begin to overcome some of these issues.\\xa0 Listen in to learn how!\\n\\nClick here to learn more about the Pandemic Pods \'in a box\' course\\n\\n \\n\\n[accordion]\\n\\n[accordion-item title="Click here to read the full transcript"]\\n\\nHello, and welcome to the Your Parenting Mojo podcast.\\n\\nToday\\u2019s podcast episode is on the topic of socialization, because one of the questions I\\u2019m seeing most often in parenting forums these days runs along the lines of "I\\u2019m worried about my child\\u2019s socialization now that it looks like daycares, preschools and schools have been closed for several months and will likely remain closed for several more months. Can someone please tell me if I really do need to worry about what the complete lack of socialization with other children will do to my only child?\\u201d\\xa0 So that\\u2019s the main topic for our conversation today.\\n\\nBut I also wanted to let you know about some other resources I\\u2019ve been putting together for parents who are struggling to cope right now, and this episode is related to those as well.\\n\\nYou might have already seen that I have a course called The Confident Homeschooler, which gives you all the information you need to decide whether homeschooling could be right for your child and your family.\\xa0 It\\u2019s based on scientific research, as everything I do is, but it\\u2019s not huge and indigestible.\\xa0 It\\u2019s a series of short videos that you could binge-watch in an evening or two, and it gives you everything you need to make a decision about whether homeschooling can really work for you\\n

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• whether you\\u2019ll need a curriculum, and if so, how to choose one;
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• how to use your child\\u2019s interests to develop their intrinsic love of learning,
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• the social and emotional learning that will enable your child\\u2019s success when they return to school,
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• overcoming problems like working with children of different ages,
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• and ways to assess your children\\u2019s learning so you can feel confident they are keeping up with academic standards, if you decide that\\u2019s important to you.
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\\nIf you want to find out more about The Confident Homeschooler you can do that at yourparentingmojo.com/confidenthomeschooler.\\n\\n \\n\\n \\n\\nBut with many districts announcing that they are moving to remote-only learning for at least the first part of the fall semester, many parents are no longer in a position where they\\u2019re choosing whether homeschooling is right for them, they\\u2019re doing some form of it whether they want to or not.\\xa0 And parents are panicking.\\xa0 They\\u2019re panicking about their children\\u2019s learning, and whether their children are somehow going to \\u2018fall behind\\u2019 if they can\\u2019t make attending school two days a week work, or if they already know from what happened in...'