While it feels like unchartered territory, he says his training as an engineer has helped give some structure to the home school day. After that, I try to get back to work and play catch-up.”The children, meanwhile, are adapting. “At first, they resisted it a bit because they thought this was going to be a holiday, but they have come around,” he says. Gray, like thousands of parents in Ireland, has been trying to navigate this new scenario over the past week. Don’t try to replicate school at home,” she says.

Source: The Irish Times March 20, 2020 14:48 UTC