Homeschooling: Celebrity Parents Share How They Dealt With Their Children's Education During Lockdown

Celebrity parents might live in luxurious mansions, but like everyone else, they share the same struggle with kids when homeschooling during the lockdowns.

Here are some celebrity parents with their share of homeschooling highs and lows:

Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett recently admitted that in 2020, she had to dress up as a teacher and put on her teacher's voice to get her seven-year-old Edith to home school during the lockdown. "She wouldn't allow me at all to teach maths or do phonics unless I dressed up as her teacher and put on her teacher's voice," the 52-year-old actress who has won two acting Oscar Awards said.

Blanchett also said they had to set up an array of stuffed animals who also had to be taught, as per her daughter's request. The actress admits that homeschooling all four of her children made her appreciate how incredible teachers are. "That is an inherently dramatic situation where you have to stand up in front of a class of 30 often disinterested pupils and try and get them engaged in medieval history," Blanchett said.

 Bradley Cooper

The "A Star is Born" actor shared that he runs a one-person preschool for his three-year-old daughter Lea De Seine. The father and daughter regularly get up and do a swim class in the tub. Bradley also shared that he spent much time looking after his mother, Gloria Campano. "I'm with my daughter [Lea De Seine] and my mother and my two dogs, and we have not left the house," the actor told Interview magazine in August 2020.

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Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon admitted that she struggles with balancing homeschool and work from home, just like everyone else. The 44-year old shared an image where she took what seemed to be a work call on her outdoor egg seat while her son, Tennessee, mounts on it and uses it as a swing.

Drew Barrymore

Actress Drew Barrymore said she cried every day since homeschooling her kids. Barrymore said that she tried to have activities together as a family. They go on bike rides, do hop-scotch, and board games. All these things were thrown out of the window when homeschooling started.

"It was the messiest plate I've ever held in my life to be the teacher, the parent, the disciplinarian, the caretaker, "she said.

Kristen Bell

A photo she once posted captures it all: a kid sitting close to her while the other is on top. A dog also sits in her lap while she faces a laptop. The "Good Place" actress captions the image, "Homeschool's going okay."

Bell thinks that doing schoolwork with them is miserable. "When we started this quarantine, the first math worksheet I gave my daughter, in all the answer lines she wrote, 'No. No. No. No. No.'"

 Mario Lopez

Celebrity parent Mario Lopez said his children did not learn anything while he homeschooled them. "I've never used Google so much in my life. I have whole new respect for teachers."

The "Save by the Bell" actor said homeschooling is "so very, very challenging. I think it was harder on us than the kids," Lopez admitted in a US magazine interview.

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