Quarantine Diaries: Dealing With Kids
4 years, 7 months ago

Quarantine Diaries: Dealing With Kids

Huff Post  

Quarantine Diaries is a communal project of stories from our readers about how they are managing their lives during the coronavirus crisis. When we get back home, it’s school work and then life skills. As a school secretary myself and my husband already working from home, we are a pretty normal family with three kids: an 18-year-old high school senior, a 14-year-old freshman and an 11-year-old fifth grader. I am drained many days after work or don’t have time to help them with homework between work and the demands of running the home. Editors Erin E. Evans, Ron Nurwisah Reporters Emma Gray, Leigh Blickley, Matthew Jacobs, Taryn Finley, Claire Fallon, Zeba Blay Copy Editor Wendy Lu Art Direction & Design Yenwei Liu, Rebecca Zisser Illustration Cécile Gariépy Audience Team Sarah Kenien, Celene Zavala A HuffPost Guide to Coronavirus

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15 Things You Need To Keep Your Kid Entertained During Quarantine
2 years, 11 months ago

15 Things You Need To Keep Your Kid Entertained During Quarantine

Huff Post  

MoMo Productions via Getty Images Thanks to the ongoing omicron-fueled COVID surge, this has certainly turned out to be the winter of our discontent — for parents, especially. Depending on where you live, some kids started the year remotely, while others went back to the classroom only for school to be quickly shut down due to COVID spread. On a …

What children have learnt during the pandemic is priceless
3 years, 7 months ago

What children have learnt during the pandemic is priceless

Live Mint  

Parents, including me, have been worried about the loss of learning during this pandemic. At this time, children's routine has gone for a toss—not stepping out of the house, not attending physical school and learning on laptops, thus rendering the “how much time onscreen is ok “ debate useless, snacking through the day and ducking out of home work and …

What Parents Must Watch Out for: COVID Symptoms & Pandemic Effect on Kids’ Mental Health
3 years, 7 months ago

What Parents Must Watch Out for: COVID Symptoms & Pandemic Effect on Kids’ Mental Health

News 18  

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. We appear to be in the middle of a ‘parallel pandemic’ of mental health crises, affecting children and parents. Prolonged and high-grade fever, breathing difficulties, poor feeding and vomiting, loose motions, dehydration, severe abdominal pain, headache, and most importantly, any significant and prolonged change in the child’s behaviour …

Identify Signs, Respond & Not React: How Parents Can Help Kids Cope with Pandemic Anxiety
3 years, 7 months ago

Identify Signs, Respond & Not React: How Parents Can Help Kids Cope with Pandemic Anxiety

News 18  

The COVID-19 virus has taught us many lessons. Journaling for older children, creating worry jars for younger ones can help children process their anxiety. Structure and Consistency: While this one may seem difficult during the pandemic with the situation changing every day, it is important to provide as much consistency as possible. It is also possible that while both may …

Supporting Kids During The Coronavirus Pandemic : Life Kit : NPR
4 years, 1 month ago

Supporting Kids During The Coronavirus Pandemic : Life Kit : NPR

NPR  

Kids Are Anxious And Scared During The Pandemic. Here's How Parents Can Help Enlarge this image Ada daSilva/Getty Images Ada daSilva/Getty Images For the kids in our lives, the last nine months have been many things. Sponsor Message Make sure your kids wear their masks "Kids generally don't get very sick from this virus," says Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of …

Regaining discipline after quarantine: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
4 years, 5 months ago

Regaining discipline after quarantine: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Dear Care and Feeding, I’m hoping you can help me wrap my head around shifting some bad habits that have developed in our household during the pandemic. I feel that this inconsistency will delay him learning that it’s not OK to throw things since I spend a lot of time with him …

VIRUS DIARY: Time and longing during a locked-down babyhood
4 years, 7 months ago

VIRUS DIARY: Time and longing during a locked-down babyhood

Associated Press  

SEATTLE — My 8-month-old baby has now spent 32% of his life under quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the lockdown has further stretched the elasticity of time for me as I witness my son growing rapidly, even as time feels like it’s standing still out there in the world. The second half of babyhood is when things get …

Coronavirus lockdown: Despondency in adults can quickly spread to their children in times like these, warns child psychiatrist
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus lockdown: Despondency in adults can quickly spread to their children in times like these, warns child psychiatrist

Firstpost  

The mix of information and misinformation, and exaggerated fears of the situation, result in symptoms of anxiety of various kinds depending on the age of the child, warns child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Amit Sen. As the fear of COVID-19 and the lockdown that began on 25 March gripped the nation, the children found themselves on the sidelines of the …

4 Life Skills Parents Can Teach Kids Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

4 Life Skills Parents Can Teach Kids Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Huff Post  

ChristinaFelsing via Getty Images The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis. “It’s a terrible time that we are in,” psychologist Ron Stolberg, a professor at Alliant International University and author of “Teaching Kids to Think,” told HuffPost. “But it’s also an opportunity for kids to learn they have tremendous capacity to overcome adversity.” Here are four powerful life skills kids …

6 tips for parents to keep kids engaged at home during coronavirus lockdown 2.0
4 years, 8 months ago

6 tips for parents to keep kids engaged at home during coronavirus lockdown 2.0

India Today  

Welcome to a one of its kind summer vacation! Should they be just confined to the four walls of their bedrooms or become couch potatoes by watching TV shows on Netflix and chilling or worst follow a minute by minute time table to worsen things up? Worry not, we still have a lot of time in hand so let's get …

From DIY hacks to reading, 5 ways parents can keep kids engaged during coronavirus lockdown
4 years, 8 months ago

From DIY hacks to reading, 5 ways parents can keep kids engaged during coronavirus lockdown

India Today  

Running out of ideas on how keep your kids both happy and productive during the extended lock down? Isn't it a good idea to utilise these days to develop good habits, try DIY hacks and enhance personal learnings during the leisure time? It's time to put on the creative hat and bond a little more with your kids during the …

Curating news for children during pandemic
4 years, 9 months ago

Curating news for children during pandemic

The Hindu  

“I invite you to a picnic in our living room. Lockdown restrictions, academic schedules gone awry and, above all, the miserable feeling of being socially adrift… COVID-19 is upending the lives of children. When schools were shut abruptly in March, we, at The Hindu In School, received mails and calls from anxious parents and principals asking us what our “plans” …

5 ways to engage your kids at home effectively during the Covid-19 lockdown
4 years, 9 months ago

5 ways to engage your kids at home effectively during the Covid-19 lockdown

India Today  

We all have started to accept the fact that schools are going to be shut for quite some time because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Get their hands deep in experiments Give your kids some time to focus on fun activities like DIY science experiments, craft, drawing, watching documentaries and educational videos. Read: From preschool to higher secondary: Unicef’s tips on …

How to help kids cope with coronavirus stay-at-home orders
4 years, 9 months ago

How to help kids cope with coronavirus stay-at-home orders

LA Times  

With stay-at-home orders enacted in California and schools likely closed for the rest of the academic year, children can be especially vulnerable as the security of their routines is upended and they worry about the health of loved ones. I call it generation C, this generation that’s out there right now looking and feeling and wondering: Mom, Dad, whoever takes …

The Heartbreaking Reality Of Parenting In The Coronavirus Pandemic
4 years, 9 months ago

The Heartbreaking Reality Of Parenting In The Coronavirus Pandemic

Huff Post  

kyonntra via Getty Images My heart first started to break one night last week when my 8-year-old son had a sobbing meltdown in the bath because kids at school were saying they had the coronavirus and he didn’t know whether or not they were telling the truth. Another time, we ran into a young friend during our daily walk through …

Coronavirus quarantine resources for parents with kids under 5
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus quarantine resources for parents with kids under 5

LA Times  

My second day of quarantine school started elbow-deep in pink muck, my conference call on mute and Slack vibrating urgently in the pocket of my coveralls as I squatted in front of a large plastic tub on my apartment’s sliver of a balcony, mixing water, corn starch and Crayola glitter paint. “It’s really daunting to all of a sudden have …

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