{"id":532,"date":"2021-03-31T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2021\/03\/31\/engaging-with-others-for-our-children\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:31:46","slug":"engaging-with-others-for-our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2021\/03\/31\/engaging-with-others-for-our-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging with others for our children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Beth Daniel &amp; Chiazor Ugwuogo<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Beth is the co-chair of the Parent Involvement Committee and Chiazor is a Parent Member of the Parent Involvement Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Having children in school means juggling a lot, all at once. The daily routine includes getting dressed, preparing lunches, helping with homework, not to mention extracurricular activities such as sports, art class, and swimming. Well, COVID has put a pause on some of that. In addition to the regular daily routine, the pandemic has brought extra worry and anxiety. Families are left to juggle decisions such as in-person versus distance learning, daily symptom screening, and concern over a lack of social interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and caregivers need help, too, to ease the parenting burden.<\/p>\n<p>One way is to make a positive connection with others to share experiences and ideas. Hearing from experts in the field of parenting can also provide relief. This type of engagement is a meaningful way to take care of ourselves, so we can continue to take care of our children.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why, as members of the WRDSB Parent Involvement Committee, we are excited to offer a series of online speaker sessions for parents and caregivers from April 7 to 10, 2021. These free, online events are designed to engage, equip, and energize you in getting through the rest of the school year. Interested in attending? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrdsb.ca\/pic\/events\/\">Visit our website to register.<\/a> We hope you will join us!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Parent Posts<\/strong> are written by parents, for parents in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrdsb.ca\/pic\/\">PIC<\/a>. This series features guest parent bloggers where they share resources and information with other parents. We invite you to <a href=\"mailto:pic@wrdsb.ca\">email<\/a> and let us know if there are other topics you\u2019d like to learn more about on Parent Posts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Beth Daniel &amp; Chiazor Ugwuogo &#8211; Beth is the co-chair of the Parent Involvement Committee and Chiazor is a Parent Member of the Parent Involvement Committee. Having children in school means juggling a lot, all at once. The daily routine includes getting dressed, preparing lunches, helping with homework, not to mention extracurricular activities such [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/2021\/03\/31\/engaging-with-others-for-our-children\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Engaging with others for our children<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}