How to help your kids—and yourself—handle being at home

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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Children and COVID-19: How to help kids cope and practice safety

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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