"I show land, so I've taken them out with me, and I try to explain to
them on an elementary school level what I'm doing out there, what I'm
looking at walking the land and what the topography is," Jennifer said.
By taking them to work, she got to teach them how to fly the
drone, some principles of surveying, how not to get lost in the woods,
how to use a GPS and how to use a compass.
"ere's been a lot more hands-on than I would have ever thought
of doing before the pandemic," Jennifer said.
When she couldn't take the kids with her to work, Jennifer said it
was difficult to balance her children's school schedule with her work
schedule. In addition, because the family only had one laptop at first,
she had to balance the Zoom schedules of her children, which could
often be conflicting.
"I mean you can't really go to the store and buy a laptop, so we had to
wait on one that needed to be delivered, so there was that delay. Luckily,
we had the money to be able to afford another laptop," Jennifer said.
While Jennifer's family experienced many of the same drawbacks
of other families with scheduling and online learning, she used the
experience to educate her children on what she does during the time
they would normally be in school.
"I don't think they really had a clue when they went off to school.
ey did their thing. ey had their lives. But I think they actually
realized more what I was doing at home or what I was doing at my job
and what all that entailed," Jennifer said.
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