Mar 29, 2020
Medical X-Press – Bev Betkowski
While parents may worry about their children missing classes, avoid the temptation to rush them into too much structured time at home. “First of all, give everyone some breathing room at the start. Take a little time, and maybe consider spending your first week or two as their spring break while you come up with a plan,” said Linda Laidlaw, a professor and digital literacy researcher in the U of A’s Faculty of Education.
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Mar 28, 2020
Medical X-Press – Kiersten Willis
The coronavirus pandemic has emerged as spring arrives and allergy season begins. With that in mind, should you be worried that going “achoo” could be an indicator of COVID-19? Here’s the difference between allergy symptoms and those of the coronavirus disease 2019.
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Mar 28, 2020
Romper – Cat Bowen
Parents of children with asthma have medications, inhalers, and monitoring physical activity and other triggers to worry about. Now, COVID-19, is the new concern in town. Are kids with asthma at greater risk for coronavirus? Doctors say, based on what we know now, maybe not.
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Mar 27, 2020
The Conversation – Dorian Traube and Ashwini Lakshmanan
Screen time for little kids takes a lot of heat under normal conditions. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ official recommendations urge families to be thoughtful and judicious about screen time for youngsters from birth to age five. And there is evidence that too much technology can lead to loss of child development opportunities.
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Mar 27, 2020
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Many children may be confused and frightened about the COVID-19 pandemic, but parents can do a lot to help children cope and stay safe during the outbreak, a University of Mississippi psychology professor advises. Stephanie Miller is also director of experimental training in the Department of Psychology and research director of the Cognition Underlying Behavior Lab, where she studies the development and cognitive processes of young children. She serves as principal investigator for a research study looking at how toddlers begin to control behavior and solve problems, supported by a $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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