Daily plan

I was feeling very anxious about what the kids will do for the next six weeks or more (probably more), especially Jordan, who has zero school. We had a very good family meeting and agreed on this plan for now:

• Jordan wakes up at 8:30ish on weekdays, and engages in daily creative/learning activities including learning a programming language, drumming, and creating electronic music.
• He and Aaron get outside for “PE class” together at least half an hour a day.
• Parents can assign chores, like cleaning up the kitchen or folding the laundry, whatever needs doing that day.
• One or both kids will make dinner a couple times a week.
• Recreational screen time has some limitations – always a work in progress.
• We will have regular family meetings (every other day?) to continually check in and make adjustments.

I feel good about this. The best part was that it was a consensus process; we parents asked questions and gave the kids an enormous amount of agency, and they made good choices. It felt good to say yes to things, and know that we had their buy-in because it had been their suggestion in the first place. It also feels great to me that we will have regular family meetings to evolve the system as needed. Those family meetings, wow, what a great investment that turns out to have been.