Celebrity Parents Are at Their Wits End as They Home-school their Kids

Celebrity parents are home-schooling and hitting the books during the coronavirus pandemic. Eva Amurri, actress taught daughter, Marlowe, 5 before giving birth to her new-born son, Mateo and continued to teach kindergarten on maternity leave!

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Marlowe loves her mother’s teaching skills and showed off big sister skills to Mateo. Daphne Oz, former Chew host has four children, three attending school and explained that their school needed cleaning as grown-ups must keep children safe and healthy. Using on-line resources, she bought work-books and planned creative projects like cooking/crafts. They dipped fingers in soap and watched germs scatter. Halle Berry, the Catwoman star, feels it’s a nightmare as the children refuse to learn anything, as when 6-year-olds see other 6-year-olds do things, they emulate them.

Teachers are Angels

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Tamera Mowry feels there is a special place in heaven reserved for teachers as their challenge lies in ensuring kids stay interested in school-work while at home. They prefer to do other things within 30 minutes because they see things to do in front of them, their TV, their backyard. Alfonso Ribeiro, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum, felt home-schooling his four kids was an absolute challenge as four computers were on at the same time! Kelly Rowland, the former Destiny’s Child member tries to replicate her son’s awesome teachers and they both have fun finding ways to play and learn. Adam Busby and Danielle Busby frankly feel that children behave better in school and trying to get them to focus is difficult. Jennifer Garner the 13 Going on 30 star said this year is full of transitions for all and tries to retain their joy in learning and finding their resilience levels. Tiffani Thiessen the Saved by the Bell alum confessed that home-schooling was horrible and really hard as she was not cut out for teaching, but stabilised after the first month.

Learning New Skills

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Chris Hemsworth home-schools three children with great difficulty, and only after 4-5 hours of bribery and negotiation and then manages to get only 20 minutes of real work done. There are new little tricks which he cannot understand but his negotiation skills have improved. Duchess Kate and Prince William feel that home-schooling is a huge shock to their children George and Charlotte as they were so easily distracted and want to play instead of sitting at the computer, but both have evolved a system about home schooling and playtimes, but Kate feels very mean. Drew Barrymore, the Santa Clarita Diet star cries every day since she started home-schooling her two daughters and being the teacher, the parent, the disciplinarian, the caretaker. Teachers have their own children; do they survive by going away and working with other kids? Do they have their children in the classroom? How does the system work?

Clueless P.E Teachers

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Kourtney Kardashian is the home-school P.E. teacher while Busy Philipps, author and one of her daughters played tennis for P.E. Kim Kardashian is astounded to see her kids stop for P.E. to go run up and down the backyard while Gabrielle Union, the actress conducted P.E. in the swimming pool with her daughter. Jason Momoa, the actor is the “PE coach” when it comes to home-schooling his and Lisa Bonet’s kids and is willing to teach rock climbing, and skateboard and that’s about it.