The Official COVID-19 E-Learning Drinking Game for Parents of students in public schools
I don’t know a single parent who isn’t absolutely exhausted by the public school system right now. We have 4 kids at home and our public school system permitted exactly 1 laptop per household. These chromebooks have a tiny 11.8” screens and the teachers of the students are working on gear that’s different from our a childrens. They don’t have an understanding of what our kids need or what they see on their tiny screens when an image is distorted and pasted into a google doc, very poorly. As a mom who also hasn’t used a ton of technology the last few years (I was a little busy raising children), I’m also not familiar enough to help them learn how to use new software and when your 7-year-old can’t figure out how to do an assignment, the kids frustrations can really boil over. So, I invited a drinking game that I’ll never have the chance to actually play while I’m teaching them but I hope it makes you laugh as much as it made me laugh writing it.
Take a drink for each child you’re teaching
Take a drink if you've let your coffee go cold before drinking it because everyone is having a tech crisis
Take a drink of you have heard mom/dad/your name more than 6 times in a 5 minute period.
Take a drink for each time the zoom password didn't work for the child
Take a drink for each time your kid logs into the wrong class
Take a drink when the password didn't work for you
Take a drink if one of your kids gets distracted the other for no damn good reason.
Take a drink if a laptop dies
Take a drink if no one can find a laptop charger
Take a drink if one of the kids loses their shit over break time not being long enough
Take a drink every time you forgot what you were doing because one of your kids didn’t understand an assignment.
Drink responsibly and preferably away from the kids but keep a tally and a light heart. We’re all in this together, friends.
Chelsea Mitchell
Chelsea is a full time mom of 4 kids ages 7-10. She’s passionate about witchy stuff, laundry being put away without her having to ask and she’s a damn good chef and served as one in the US Military for many years as she grew up on base. Now she lives in Everett, WA with her kids as a stay at home mom.