Ep. 147: One Family's Experience with COVID

<p><strong><a href= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/ep-147-one-familys-experience-with-covid"> SHOW NOTES</a></strong></p> <p>This week I'm talking with my friend Jill Stribling. Jill's family has first-hand experience with COVID-19. If you're a longtime listener, you may remember my chat with Jill back in <a href="https://sunshine-parenting.com/ep-35/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ep. 35</a> about her decision to unplug her family, including her 10-year-old son, whose behavior around screens had started to concern her.</p> <h2><span style="color: #1176bc">About Jill</span></h2> <p>Jill is a teacher and is the owner and founder of <a href= "https://englishforfun.es/en/getting-to-know-our-school-director-jill-stribling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">English for Fun</a>, a school in Madrid, Spain. English for Fun is a learning laboratory where children and adults are empowered to take risks and try new things. They collaborate with the best research institutes throughout the world in order to bring quality education to Spain and to the world.</p> <p>Jill Stribling has a B.A. in Child Development and Psychology and a Master’s degree in Education and specialty in Literacy and Language Arts from California State University and more than 20 years of experience in education. After several years teaching in public schools in Los Angeles, CA, she was recruited by the American School of Madrid in 2001, where she taught Kindergaten and First Grade and took on several leadership roles (i.e. Grade Level Chair, Accreditation Committee Leader, etc.). With her educational and professional experience firmly in place, she developed a methodology for making language learning fun, and began her entrepreneurial journey in 2008 with literally one student in her living room. Shortly afterwards, she had a total of</p> <p>70 students, and actually had to expand her business. English for Fun is an educational group with an English Enrichment Program for children and adults, an Urban Camp Program, an American Earl