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Neil Patrick Harris is letting out a sigh of relief.
Although it appears virtually in The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday, the father of two 47-year-olds talked about their 10-year-old “miraculous” twins, Harper and Gideon, with husband David Burtka.
“Ellen, I’m free!” Harris exclaimed to Ellen DeGeneres, 63, after revealing that her children had resumed face-to-face learning for the first time since March last year.
“They are at school all of a sudden. We have been in a remote school since March and then at school [recently] opened, “said the actor.” Since last week, they have been able to be [back] – with all the protocols, the masks, two meters away, being tested all the time – but they are in real school. “
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Harris admitted that although he is happy to have his children out of the house for part of the day, he still misses “them”.
Earlier this year, the How I met your mother star spoke to PEOPLE about her time at home in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and gave details of her children’s remote school setup.
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“Each has its own small classroom, its main lights and its own headphones,” he said in January. “I feel like they are in the school of the future – in the present! But they don’t go to gym, swimming and many other social activities and games they are used to.”
Despite the many challenges that remote schooling and self-isolation bring, Harris admitted that additional time at home helped his family strengthen the bond.
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“I think that made the children closer to each other and made us closer to them in a much more nuanced way,” he explained to PEOPLE earlier this year. “As challenging as it was, I really appreciate the good things that came out of it.”
The hardest part for parents was “inventing new and inventive things to amuse” their children.
“As parents, we don’t want them to be constantly stuck on an iPad, and yet with few options, that’s all they want to do,” said Harris at the time. “This is challenging because I really like video games. show me. ‘”