She is a local children’s book author, former teacher, public speaker, she started her own publishing company, and now she is even hosting a classroom of her own online. At the time she was a teacher and realized there were not many books for kids that had characters that looked like them. The book teaches kids to have the courage to be themselves. AdAs an author, publisher, and former teacher she was invited into a lot of classrooms to be a public speaker. Like many, she did the pandemic pivot and decided to bring her lessons to their homes with Sunny Side School, a virtual classroom.

DETROIT – A Metro Detroit author started a home school when the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic first hit, but the focus is not on math or English. The focus is on social skills that many parents are worried about with their children still being at home. Imagine a virtual classroom where students are getting lessons in how to work out sibling rivalry and that has a focus on rivalry and focus on diversity and mental health. READ: Wayne-Westland school officials work to make sure students can learn remotelyDismondy is teaching social skills in a virtual classroom. READ: More education coverageTwo thousand families signed up last time and there was close to 400 students logging in at a time.

Parents are trying to work from home, while home schooling children, which is why experts claim this is a great time to build their independence. This was day one of quarantine.”The more responsibilities and independence given to children, the more they could make mistakes. For the Dismondy children, that means checking into their Google Classrooms on their own. “And one of them was cooking.”ain things I really wanted to teach the kids while we’re here in this quarantine,” Dismondy said. “I’m sure parents have heard, ‘I’m bored,’ and I want everyone to know that it drives me crazy just as much as it drives you crazy," Dismondy said.

Why now is the perfect time to build up your child’s independencePublished: May 15, 2020, 5:59 pmDoing everything at home means juggling a lot of tasks for both work and the family.