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E-learning in Ontario: Follow this family as they adjust to school at home (Day 5)

Kitchener couple Carin Lowerison and Matt White are trying to support their three elementary-school age girls: Berkeley, Heidrun, and Clementine, as they learn from home during COVID-19. Today they consider overcoming conflict when we're all cooped up in close quarters.
Jackie Sharkey · CBC News ·
Carin Lowerison and Matt White are trying their best to help their three daughters — Berkeley, 11, Heidrun, 9, and Clementine, 5 — get through the rest of the school year, or physical distancing. Whichever comes first. (Submitted by: Matt White)

Families all over Ontario are figuring out how to support their school-age kids as they learn from home during COVID-19.

Kitchener's Carin Lowerison and Matt White are among them. 

Their three girls go to Sheppard Public School. Berekley is in Grade 6, Heidrun is in Grade 4 and Clementine is in senior kindergarten.

This week, Carin and Matt are trying something a little different: Getting schoolwork done early and one at a time, so each one of their kids has time to concentrate on their studies solo.

It started out smoothly, but when they tried to encourage one of the girls to be more independent, it didn't go over well.

That got Matt and Carin thinking about overcoming conflict while cooped up in close quarters.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jackie Sharkey

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Jackie Sharkey is the daytime radio news anchor for CBC News in her home province of P.E.I. She spent 10 years working as a producer, guest host and studio technician in Kitchener, Ont. and helped launch the station when it was created in 2013. She has also worked for CBC in Kelowna, B.C., Quebec City and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

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