The coronavirus is raging everywhere, children are in quarantine or distance learning, schools are closed. The kids will enjoy the quarantine, but not for long; in just a day they will become bored and whine and be capricious. Parents will no longer enjoy the long-awaited unexpected “vacation”. And you can’t work calmly with children remotely. What to do? Here’s what experts advise: 1) This is not home schooling, but an emergency situation that affects all family members. Home schooling is a personal choice that you have thought through and planned , and essentially act as a teacher for the child, no matter what form of education you choose. What is happening now can at best be called distance learning. In reality, now no one has any idea how to do what exactly, what is good and what is bad. 2) You are the main source of knowledge for your child. If you decide that the child will not sit on any assignments or notebooks, but will spend all this time playing in the dirt, watching TV or baking cookies - this is your choice and your right. And you shouldn't feel any stress or guilt about it. 3) Schools also have no idea what to do. They were also given no time to prepare, told to continue planning lessons as usual, and simply send the children home if at all possible. If this were possible, we would not have schools. Let me say briefly - your school also makes up everything on the fly. 4) It is impossible to provide distance learning to primary schoolchildren at home, and at the same time work, because the very idea is absurd. If you are trying to do this, stop. Of course, you can do things with your child and he will learn something new in the process, but you need to focus on work, and on survival. I repeat, the situation is unprecedented. Stop playing superheroes. And now answers to Frequently Asked Questions: My school sent home a mountain of assignments. Hundreds of pages and tasks. How should I deal with this? No way, don't try. The teacher spent a couple of hours and in a complete panic collected a bunch of everything and sent it to you so that there would be no complaints that the child was not given enough tasks. This is not a race or a competition, and it is unlikely that the teacher will ever even look at it. My school floods me with emails with links, recommendations, and assignments. How to stop this? See above. These ideas and proposals are sent out because the school is afraid that they will be accused of not offering anything. Use them if you want, don't use them if you don't. If you're feeling stressed, don't open emails from school. Nobody will know about this! And another boy in my son's class studies 6 hours a day, and we still haven't started. What if we miss and fall behind? Even if all children had the same conditions at home in terms of support, parental time, number of children, etc., children still learn at their own pace. Within the same class, the level of knowledge in each subject varies greatly. Children learn at different rates, and most are given different tasks. In a distance learning environment, teachers cannot provide an individual approach and select tasks and speed for each child. You will have to do this. Managing your expectations and time. Your son won't be left behind. Learning is repetition. If children could learn new concepts without teaching, we wouldn't have teachers. They will go through all this again and again and repeat it. Many times. I don't do any training. They only play with Lego, cook and play in the garden. This is training. Very valuable. Give them and yourself a chance to breathe. How can I teach three children of different ages in three different programs at the same time? No way, and stop trying. If they are older, let them try to do something themselves. Otherwise, do something that they would be interested in: reading together, making up stories, baking, etc. What is the absolute minimum I should do? For me it is a matter of survival. I am not sure that all teachers"