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Parent Companion

20 lessons, around 4 hours

  1. 1

    Welcome to the parent companion

    8 min

  2. 2

    The hardest moment in helping your child with schoolwork is the moment your chil

    9 min

  3. 3

    There are moments when you, as a parent, need to speak to the school

    9 min

  4. 4

    There is a particular kind of week that every Pakistani family knows

    10 min

  5. 5

    There is a moment, sometimes around Grade 4, sometimes Grade 7, when you start t

    11 min

  6. 6

    Your daughter is online for schoolwork

    10 min

  7. 7

    In most Pakistani households, money is the one topic the child is told nothing a

    9 min

  8. 8

    Your child comes home upset

    11 min

  9. 9

    There is a kind of moment that almost every Pakistani parent who did not finish

    9 min

  10. 10

    This is the last lesson of the parent companion

    12 min

  11. 11

    There is a moment, somewhere between your child being twelve and being sixteen,

    9 min

  12. 12

    Most Pakistani families want two things for their children at the same time

    10 min

  13. 13

    There comes a year in many Pakistani childhoods when the school is not enough

    10 min

  14. 14

    Pakistan has, in practice, three school systems running side by side

    11 min

  15. 15

    There is a final lesson in this companion, and it is the hardest one

    10 min

  16. 16

    Pakistani extended family is a gift, and a problem

    13 min

  17. 17

    It will happen

    13 min

  18. 18

    There is no Pakistani parent of a child between ten and eighteen who has not had

    14 min

  19. 19

    The report card has come home

    14 min

  20. 20

    Somewhere between thirteen and seventeen, your child stops being someone you can

    14 min