Adapting To Sudden Changes in Your Routine [Video]

For some parents, it’s been a surprise to see how well their kids have adapted to change this year.

February 23, 2021 by the Editors Leave a Comment

 

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For some parents, it’s been a surprise to see how well their kids have adapted to change this year. For Elisa in Pennsylvania, it was a relief to see a sense of calm wash over her daughter, despite the sudden changes in her routine. In this episode of From Our Family to Yours, our experts provide insight into different reactions kids are having to this new change of pace.

 

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are you surprised at how easily your

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child has adapted to change

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we may have some reasons why welcome to

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from our family to yours hi

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i’m jonathan jovich from the understood

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team i’m an art teacher

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and a parent and today’s story is about

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and comes from elisa in pennsylvania she

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my daughter maya has demonstrated

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remarkable patience and resiliency

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many of us were overwhelmed with the

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changes however maya surprised me with

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when you have a child with hidden

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disabilities childhood apraxia of speech

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the world doesn’t see their challenges

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and what they’re coping with

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one of those challenges is the constant

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run around to therapy and tutoring

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for the first time in a long time we had

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we didn’t have to attend tutoring

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sessions in speech and language therapy

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in person maya was at home and

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and completed her virtual lessons

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the rush of our daily routine was

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eliminated and i noticed a new calm take

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she had more time to do the things she

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what’s amazing about elise’s story with

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is that she took the chance and the

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to step back from her own emotions and

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she noticed this sense of calm come over

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because of the fact that she could be at

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that she felt comfortable maybe making

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things a little bit slower

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a little bit easier to handle because

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they’re spending more time at home

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in addition it’s exciting to see the

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possibilities moving forward

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if our kids are learning best through

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and through therapy sessions at home in

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a space where they feel comfortable

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continuing to advocate for those

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is really important for us alisa

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at nine years old she has the ability to

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keeping herself busy through her

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favorite activities such as basketball

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the biggest surprise is that she’s

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continuing to learn and make progress

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she realized early on that she would not

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be seeing her friends in a normal

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so we had to come up with ways to stay

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letter writing was one lesson that i was

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able to incorporate into her learning

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she was able to make a different

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connection with her friends that she

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wasn’t able to in the past

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during the pandemic our structure was

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maya has handled the changes with grace

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and demonstrated patience

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i didn’t think was possible for a child

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i’ve heard this from many parents and i

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i was concerned about the social

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situations or the connections that my

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child was going to be missing

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much like alisa is for maya and yet it’s

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to learn new things to build new

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and that’s what’s happening here she

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taught her daughter how to write

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letters and i know that that’s something

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that we’ve done in our family as well

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my kids have learned about sentence

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about the structure of a letter about

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about the envelope where the stamp even

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goes these are things that we haven’t

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because we’ve just sent emails or text

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messages or done facetime

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but instead we’re learning a new skill

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and we send those letters off to family

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and friends we can’t see

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or walk through the neighborhood leaving

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them for friends on their steps

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as we wave through the windows at them

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the other exciting thing is we’re

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getting an opportunity to see our kids

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interact with students and friends in

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as many of our kids are learning at home

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through distance learning

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i think it’s important that whenever we

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interacting in a positive way with a

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peer that we take a moment to celebrate

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them and to say you did a wonderful job

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when you took a step back and listened

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or it was great that you complimented

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whenever they did this so taking the

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opportunity to celebrate with our kids

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in the big and in the small ways

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if you have a story about your child

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thanks for watching see you next time

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