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🌱 New This Week: Start your family’s emergency plan—Step 1 inside

Published 3 months ago • 2 min read

New This Week

at Dr. Robin's School

Hi there!

When emergencies happen, kids don’t need to panic—they need a plan. This month, we’re breaking preparedness into small, doable steps. Start by building your Safety Team with this week’s short video and downloadable worksheet.

🎬 The Feature Lab

This week's video focuses on the first step to creating an emergency plan for your family.

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There will also be a playlist available starting next week so you can work through all the pages at once!

📥 The Resource Bench

This week's download will help you get started on your own family safety plan! You can download just this week's page here or you can get the entire workbook in the Content Vault.

🧠 Ask a Question

Do you have a question and teaching science, raising a science "nerd," or understanding neurodiversity? Reply to this email and maybe your question will get featured in a future newsletter!

Question:

Is it normal for my kid to be this obsessed with anything gross about the human body? At what point is it a ‘career interest’ vs. just being a weird kid?

Expert Answer:

You are not the first parent to ask this—and no, it’s not weird. Many kids show deep interest in one area of science (especially anatomy or disease) before they ever show interest in traditional “school science.” What looks like a quirky obsession might actually be early signs of a career path—especially if your child lights up when they explain how a bruise forms or wants to inspect every cut with a flashlight.

You don't have to push a particular career to allow your child to explore their interest. After all, we don't say, "Well, she's not going to be a paleontologist so don't let her obsess about dinosaurs!"

In MedPath, we help students channel those fascinations into real medical knowledge—without dumbing it down. We also encourage them to consider options beyond "doctor" vs "nurse." With 20+ different career spotlights and growing every week, we make sure that kids and teens know there are a wide variety of healthcare careers available to them!

🛠️ Updated Lessons!

Did you know there are nearly 150 lessons in our full Physiology and Disease curriculum? It took Dr. Robin years to record them all—and now they’re getting a fresh edit!

We’re giving the original videos a gentle facelift so they display better on larger screens. The science stays the same, but the experience will feel even smoother.

Starting next week, we’ll let you know which lessons have been remastered and include direct links to view them. (If you don’t have access yet, the link will prompt you to join.)

Want a peek at the full lineup? Explore the three levels of MedPath:

That's all for this week! Happy Learning!

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I spent decades watching patients who didn't understand their own bodies and kids who dreamed of medicine but had no real path to get there. So I built one. Physician-designed courses that give children and teens clinical-level knowledge no other program provides. 🩺 MedPath: Pre-Med for Kids and Teens 🌱 LifePath: Understand the one body you get for your whole life. 🧠 Neurodiversity: Because no two brains are wired the same way.

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