{"id":136900,"date":"2020-03-20T14:58:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T13:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/20\/after-half-a-day-of-home-schooling-i-am-officially-in-awe-of-all-teachers-emma-brockes\/"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T13:58:49","slug":"after-half-a-day-of-home-schooling-i-am-officially-in-awe-of-all-teachers-emma-brockes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136900","title":{"rendered":"After half a day of home-schooling, I am officially in awe of all teachers | Emma Brockes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the world outside panicked over coronavirus, I was to be the calm, efficient teacher to my child. It didn\u2019t last longWe are doing a writing exercise at the kitchen table, about 90 minutes into home-schooling. So far, it\u2019s gone quite well. I\u2019ve drawn a grid with alphabetised headers and I\u2019m dictating words for my five-year-old to write down. There was a brief dispute about which pen to use \u2013 she picked up a permanent marker, then wouldn\u2019t accept, in spite of my reasoning, that it was 100% the wrong pen \u2013 but now we\u2019re on track.I\u2019ve totally got this, I think. I point out she is doing the letter S backwards, nicely ask her to try again, offer to show her how, tell her to stop being unreasonable \u2013 and find myself thinking \u201coh my god what is your problem I\u2019m only trying to help you!\u201d Now she\u2019s screaming \u201cstop confusing me!\u201d Jesus Christ, there\u2019s another month of this to go. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/20\/home-schooling-teachers-child-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">After half a day of home-schooling, I am officially in awe of all teachers | Emma Brockes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the world outside panicked over coronavirus, I was to be the calm, efficient teacher to my child. It didn\u2019t last longWe are doing a writing exercise at the kitchen table, about 90 minutes into home-schooling. So far, it\u2019s gone quite well. I\u2019ve drawn a grid with alphabetised headers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}