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Barnsley Museums Wellbeing interview Natalie
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So that's what keeps you well,
one of the most important things, I think.
And it's probably becoming more important, uh, is
getting supportive messages from other people
and also being able to support them.
Um, so
a recent, um, my
I'm on a WhatsApp group for WiFi parents at school
and one of the moms.
It's sometimes sometimes not very helpful. But one of the moms recently posted a
something she'd just seen on Facebook,
and it was about
home schooling
and
expectations.
And,
um,
the basic message was,
If you think that you're being expected to work parent and home school perfectly,
then you
you know, that's
it's not possible.
You cannot do that.
Um, everyone's situation is different. Um,
but
the most important thing right now for your kids as well, is that
you? It's they need to feel, um, loved and safe and,
you know, Yeah, they Yeah, obviously they need their brain stimulating, but,
um,
it was I think the message was cut yourself some slack.
Don't, um, don't have these really high expectations.
Um, of of of what you're expected to achieve, uh, every day,
Uh, and just focus on those really important core things so
and also
understand, You know, with kids behaviour, it's like just understanding that
you might not initially think that
something
that they're doing,
um or that they're angry about is connected to the fact that they are
not at school and they are at home and they're trying to cope with
that. They're trying to cope with doing school work at home.
It's like, you can't expect them to just
go. Oh, OK, I'm home schooling, Right, OK. And I think
it was good that it pointed out you have to be a bit understanding about that and that
they're gonna struggle for all sorts of reasons
because you don't know what they do in school every day.
You don't know the little things that they like. They don't like,
um, that they find easy. They find hard.
You get a very broad 10 minutes of parents evening
and whatever information comes out of their mouths, which is
not always accurate. But,
um so I think trying, you know,
it it that sort of opened my eyes a little bit about
about being understanding more understanding towards
them and not being rigid about.
You have to learn this today,
so supporting them and when I have done it
when I've managed it, because this was only recent was
seeing the benefits of that. It was like, Oh my God, that works.
It's like, great.
So that that
that keeps me Well, definitely.
But also,
I've noticed since we've come back from New Year
and we were doing it last year anyway,
within my team,
just talking to each other.
Um,
not necessarily about anything working, but just asking
how each other are.
Since New Year, it seems to have become a very
crucial thing.
Not not for people sobbing on each other's pe on each other's shoulders, but
to, um
uh,
just,
I don't know, really. It's just become a really, uh, very important thing.
I saw Alison yesterday and we talked, and I just felt so much better
afterwards, and we were just We were just talking about general stuff.
It wasn't deep.
We were talking about how what was going well, what wasn't going well and
yeah, so
that,
um,
is is really important. Definitely.
And I know the people not to expect
support from not necessarily because they're both people,
but just because they're not very good at giving you.
Yeah,
that's so that that was my last comment. Thank you.
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