[danans]

Taking things one day at a time, and learning to be patient with everyone: the teachers, my kids, ourselves. We have shifted our kids' babysitter toward more teaching-assistant type duties.

Also, I'm trying use my free time to teach the kids intellectually stimulating stuff they wouldn't learn in a classroom - like how to play poker, how to calculate flooring area from an architectural plan, how a wall is constructed, basic chemistry while cooking in the kitchen.

[jeffrallen]

Since your babysitter's responsibility is growing is his/her pay also growing? Sorry for the rude question, but "essential workers" have rights and needs too...

[danans]

Yes, it is.