Book review: Learning in Lockdown: A parent's guide to helping young children thrive during campus closure.

Publisher's presentation

Learning in Lockdown is a judgment-free handbook for parents maneuvering through the major family disruption of a school closure.

Regardless of whether you are facing impending school shutdown, your campus is closing again, or you are now several weeks into managing remote learning, this handbook is for you. 

You will find that it is never too late to reflect and make changes - whether big or small - to de-stress and streamline learning at home with young children. 

IN THE COVID-19 ERA FAMILY LIFE HAS SUDDENLY AND DEEPLY CHANGED.

Hailed by parents as "validating" and "confidence-building", it contains sound advice and practical tips, based on first-hand experience. Its message resonates with parents anywhere that schools have shut their gates and remote learning at home has begun. 

And you will also find affirmation, honesty and advocacy for you because your family can't make it without you. 

"After months of struggling with (and repeatedly failing at) the facilitation of my own children's distance learning, its sound advice, real-world strategies, and relatable stories offered me immediate comfort. In a world that was feeling increasingly isolated, Learning in Lockdown made me feel less alone"  - Mother of two, USA

"As an educator myself, I naively believed I was well-equipped to facilitate my own children's distance learning. Instead, two weeks into lockdown, I found myself overwhelmed, ill-prepared, and ready to throw in the towel. Learning in Lockdown could not have landed in my lap at a better time. It spoke to, and validated, the many emotions and experiences our family was undergoing. It might be an overstatement to say that Learning in Lockdown saved our family this year...but I don't think so" - Mother of two & qualified high school teacher, USA

"Learning in Lockdown offered me the confidence and real-world strategies to tackle distance learning with relative ease" - Grandmother of four, Australia

My review (Originally published on Reader's Favorite)

Learning in Lockdown: A parent's guide to helping young children thrive during campus closure by Dylan Meikle is a non-fiction handbook designed primarily for parents. The various types of information make it a great read: text written from experience and research (in the fields of positive psychology, child psychology, and so much more), invaluable tips, an extremely humane preface, and book, and guided pauses for reflection with personal questions readers can ponder to grow as parents/educators/people in lockdown.

I particularly enjoyed reading this guide as a parent and a teacher. Indeed Learning in Lockdown by Dylan Meikle provides the perfect read for overwhelmed parents, for all parents who want to reach out for support, to help their children succeed without putting too much pressure on them, who need to be reminded that each student is unique and that everything they go through is normal and they should take care of themselves first and foremost. A very useful list of key resources at the end of this guide. A book to ponder, treasure, share, and give to our loved ones!