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Hi Reader,

I hope you're doing well. Sorry I've been absent the past couple of weeks. Granted, I'm guessing no one notices when I don't email weekly, I'm not that important, but in case you do - I apologize.

Turns out, due in part to the passing of my mother in April, I'm currently in an autoimmune flare. My symptoms are significantly worse than usual, I've had a lot of medical appointments, and I'm trying to get back to baseline. Some of what that entails is reducing stress, letting things go, pausing on things that aren't essential to the life of myself or children, etc.

Hence, emailing isn't at the top of the life-sustaining list, so I let that lapse a bit.

Also, despite all of this, it is summer break for my kids, so I'm hanging out with them more, including going to the local beach as much as we can.

As you probably can tell by now, I am not one of those creators who emails daily, and I also don't want to email just for the sake of emailing. I want to share helpful information, not just clutter up your inbox. So when I'm to the point that I'm just trying to survive, I'm not going to burden you weekly with my woes. You know?

Which leads me to some hopefully helpful content in this email!

Prevent Summer Slide/Learning Loss

I know, summer is just starting, BUT it is important to prevent summer slide in our school-aged children. Our kids' teachers emailed out a long list of suggestions for the summer. At first, I was overwhelmed with the end of the school year, etc. and thought NOPE!! But then I reminded myself of my training as a school psych as well as the blog post I wrote about this topic last year. lol

It's also great in terms of building a daily routine. I don't want our whole summer to be scheduled, but my boys don't do well if we don't have at least an outline of a plan for the day.

Hence, I built in learning time after lunch each day when it's the peak of hotness outside, so we can be indoors, working on learning-related things for an hour or so.

On beach days or other days out of the house, I don't worry about it, but I'd like it to happen at least a few times a week.

Note: Not gonna lie, we haven't started this routine yet. With my autoimmune flare, medical appointments, my oldest's 10th birthday this week, beach days, etc. it just hasn't happened. We'll start by mid-June, though. Just wanting to show, I'm human too!

Prevent Summer Slide Easy ways to prevent summer learning loss. As a former school psych, I feel it's my duty to share this 😉 Read Blog Post

I hope you're having warmer weather too!

Hope you have a good week!

Nicole Prom, M.S.Ed., Ed.S.

Founder/Blogger at TheWayitReallyIs.com​

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