Back At It… Transition To Public School

Digital Generation, Our Generation

This week, we dive into the transition back to public school from the hybrid homeschool model adopted during the year that was quarantine. Cyla talks about big emotions and gives some great analogies for processing it all.

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Transcription:
[1:02] 123 testing, testing 123, testing testing.

[1:10] All right, this is it, we are back with season three, we have,

taken a nice long break, we're going to start when school started but we just never got to it. 

Things got hectic.

Yeah, I mean not only were you dealing with some complicated complications but just getting used to having all this stuff, the hardware in your mouth.

[1:40] It's literally like someone's doing construction in my mouth because it is but little tiny people putting wires in my house in your mouth house my mouth house.

Yeah, let's just say mouse house. It totally is because they're moving and shifting all the things and it's happened really fast.

Uh huh. My teeth were sideways and crooked and turned and now they're almost perfectly straight,

and there's room for the it's weird tooth over on the right, maybe the left, it's making room, it's your left, my right, it's making room for all those guys that couldn't come down and party earlier.

Yeah, so now you've got plenty of space but it is hard to talk.

So it's put a pause on the show and voice acting just a little bit but you're super comfortable with it now I think the hard part has been working around the soreness.

[2:37] Because here and then I feel like there's a uh sore piece there and then another one over there,

but but you're doing so good and it's almost over, I mean we got,

a couple of months left to go with the routine or the expander I think like three more months with the expander or four and then like eight more months with the braces, yep, yep, and then you'll be ready to rock.

Eight more months and they are already so straight. Why? Right well and it's not even,

about it being straight or how it looks really, it's about the general wellness and the health of your mouth and your teeth and your gums and,

your ability to chew correctly inverts down where your jaw comes down to the right place of your bottom, like your top teeth come and meet your bottom teeth.

You had a really wicked crossbite, which is when your teeth kind of point towards each other in word and don't sit perfectly aligned.

So this is a really great move for us to do right now. But all that being said, it has taken away a little bit from the podcast Also, life in general, I mean, let's be Real.

[3:48] It has been the most mental 19 months of my existence with everything that's gone on. How about you?

I feel like we should just all rebirth ourselves totally covid when there's no more virus.

I don't know if there will ever be any more virus.

Let's just clear out the whole world then all the viruses and then just rebirth ourselves and re emerge as a new here. Let's just click a button.

We can't do that.

[4:23] We cannot do that. I wish we could. But I really feel like this has given the world,

and all of humanity a chance to press pause on the button and just reevaluate what's important and for us, what's been.

[4:39] Most important is being together and staying healthy and valuing the things that maybe you get lost in the everyday shuffle before, right?

Like family time and fun and being present and being very conscientious of our health and our wellness all the time being considerate and conscientious of others.

What else would you say you kind of learned or took away from this time so far?

So what I learned is that it is okay to just slow down and take a break.

You don't always have to be chop chop chop chop chop chop. We've got to do this today.

Got to do this today. You can slow it down.

That is s.o insightful Cyla That doesn't mean I agree. Yeah, that doesn't mean you can do that for everything.

Like you can't slow it down if you're doing a times test Right?

If you're doing your multiplication tables under five minutes.

[5:42] But that being said, you still get a chance to slow down and appreciate everything around you.

[5:50] Definitely even just the little things like nature and which isn't a small thing at all.

Nature is huge and beautiful and magical and awesome and other little things like being healthy.

[6:01] And being able to be with people and actually we're now rolling in and we can now be with people instead of being locked in our house and our tiny boxes.

Yeah. So, but a few things have changed since the last season ended and it kind of ended a bit abruptly.

We still actually have a bonus episode that was right after you got your braces that was supposed to wrap up the season.

But we held that back because I knew you were feeling a little uncertain about how yes, all the spit in your mouth and stuff.

But you know what, you sounded just as strong and smart and intelligent as you always are.

And so with your permission maybe we'll listen back to that and release it as a bonus episode because it really was talking about that process in case you've got friends out, a lot of your friends have been going through the same thing and a lot of my friends are about to go through his act.

So it might be helpful to share with uh, with some of our listeners and your friends exactly how that experience was of braces and the expander because it's going really well and now you're on the other side of it. So it might be kind of cool to look back.

[7:10] But since then the world kind of opened up again and then it kind of backed down again.

Now we're back in masks, school is back in session in public school.

And we did go back to public school, which was a big win, there was a big win, good, and it was also a little bummer because we did have to wear masks.

[7:35] But you were wearing masks in the hybrid homeschool, but you were home a lot also there was other complications and challenges.

It just, I don't think as much as I wanted it to be something amazing for both of us in a very enriching time to do that hybrid homeschool program.

I was alone most of the time when you're downstairs working. I had to sit still on a kitchen table doing math.

[8:03] Yeah. And that really wasn't my intention. But my work got busier and busier during covid, which I didn't expect as a voice actor turns out everybody needed to change their messaging.

And if you had a home studio which we do, it was a huge gift and a giant boost to our business, both of ours.

But especially for someone that, you know, I do a lot of corporate work and everyone needed to change their message and campaigns and commercials were changing and even on hold phone messages were changing.

So I was really under a lot of pressure to get that done.

But most importantly, uh, you know, keep an eye on you and keep you safe and keep you healthy.

And that took away from a lot of the opportunity to be hands-on in this homeschooling or unschooling process and method and unfortunately we found that we that didn't didn't really work for us. Right.

Yeah. What did you like about it? And what did you not like about it, what I didn't like is that I was alone most of the time and you were down here working and II.

[9:11] And I was up there doing my own things, you would help me to grab all my pages and then I would just be left there to do it all myself,

which was kind of a bomber but we made it through and what I liked about it is that I got time to concentrate with nothing around me like.

[9:31] Well I had space to do that without all that pilot distraction.

Yeah or distraction. You had in school. I bet you missed your friends though. Huh?

Did I mean you had a group of a small group of friends at the hybrid school but it's really getting back to public school I think gives you the social stimulation and the emotional support that you really crave.

Your quite an extroverted child which means you,

get energy from competing, connecting with people,

as opposed to introvert which is they gain energy from just being quiet and being in their own space and doing their own thing and,

and so as an extrovert child I think that you really have thrived in the last few weeks of being back in public school. How's it going for you?

It is going well. I am okay.

So I feel like uh you know a cloud there.

They have a thunderstorm stage and quiet alone white stage.

[10:33] So I feel like in public school, although I was still with a little bit of people,

I was still my white club and the white cloud is like being alone and kind of bummed that I'm not with anybody.

[10:49] And then now that I'm in public school back then and I'm seeing all my friends,

my cloud is getting so excited and like rumbling up and getting all this electricity inside of it and like exploding right now, but that's in a good way, right?

So the white fluffy cloud being breezy is something different and it feels lonesome and a thunder cloud feels like the electricity and its vibrant for you.

You're making a vibrant analogy that the thunderstorm cloud is strong and powerful and jazz and energetic and good, very cool.

But that doesn't really make sense because thunderstorm clouds are like blooming sadness.

Yeah, but I love a good thunderstorm so I'm down for that analogy. I loved it.

Yeah. And it feels like you also really appreciate moving from class to class with these different teachers,

and these different people because some people move from class to class with me because they're in higher levels or lower levels or whatever levels I'm in,

and then some people stay behind and I get to meet other people in place of the jewish people.

Yeah, so your social circle and support uh.

[12:05] System of classmates shifts with different teachers and their different teaching styles. And does that keep the day going pretty quick for you?

Does it keep it interesting? It seems like it would be good.

Well you really seem to be thriving and coming from a joyful space and I'm so excited to talk to you more about,

everything that's in store for you this year and what's happening with us and our business and our family and all of your adventures and experiences, it's going to be another great season. It really is.

I'm so excited this year we want to give some shout outs to our friends that have supported us along the way.

A lot of people have commented and messaged us,

either on social and email or in person and so we wanted to give a few shout outs today for those who have been hanging on with us through the break and have been asking when we are back and we are back.

So a shout out to my friends at my school, Elena V likely be Sophia and a bunch of my other friends, yep, those are some great ones and also to our friends on social media.

Amelia and her mom, Nicole kabbalah.

What a terror mom. Well our friends Melody and Revi, they have been super supportive Mona and Diya Patel from mama tribes unite.

Diya is also one of my friends from school.

[13:35] And Hallie and her sister Olivia Shapiro and Heather and Emory Burrows too,  shout out to these awesome mother daughter teams that have been supporting us since the beginning.

We appreciate you so much. We really do. Super grateful for all the support.

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