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Grandparents School Is Open During Pandemic

Elizabeth Lee

   LOS ANGELES - As parents feel the stress of juggling working from home
   and home schooling their children during the pandemic, grandparents are
   pitching in to help.

   Los Angeles television editor Jason Smith has two daughters, 8 and 4
   years old.

   He lives close to his parents who used to help pick up his oldest
   daughter from school every day, but the pandemic stopped normal life
   when schools closed. His parents are unable to leave their home under
   the mandate to stay home. Like many parents, Smith and his wife have
   been trying to juggle work and children. He has been feeling the
   pressure of working from home and trying to teach his children.

   "I am running homeschool like a lot of people who don't have any
   experience in this whatsoever. My wife is a teacher, but she's busy all
   day, and so I am teaching the kids," he said.

   While Smith's wife teaches her students online, he has been coming up
   with topics to teach his two daughters and trying to keep them both
   learning and entertained.

   Sensing their stress, Jason Smith's father, David Smith, had been
   thinking of a way to help his son and daughter-in-law, seeing they were
   getting exhausted "because they're both working and teaching at the
   same time."

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