Mar 14, 2020
Romper – Kinsey Gidick
Quarantine. Right now it sounds like a four letter word. The daily reports about the spread of coronavirus have many worried that a quarantine — be it for infected families or a nationally instituted response — could have us all on lockdown very soon. And for parents, even the most responsible among us, the thought of having kids at home indefinitely is bewildering. How will you entertain them? Who will teach them their lessons? For the love of all that’s holy, can you go outside in a quarantine?
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Mar 13, 2020
The Huffington Post – Caroline Bologna
Although research suggests the coronavirus may not affect children as severely as adults, the COVID-19 pandemic is still impacting the lives of American kids. In addition to school closures, strict hand-washing rules, disruption of routine and a general sense of fear and uncertainty, it seems the news of the coronavirus has made its way into playtime.
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Mar 13, 2020
Medical X-Press – Dennis Thompson
Suicidal thoughts have haunted nearly one of every 10 pre-teens in the United States, a new study reveals. About 8.4% of children aged 9 or 10 said they’d temporarily or regularly harbored thoughts of suicide, researchers report.
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Mar 12, 2020
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Children’s brains react in the same way to social feedback as adults’ brains. But handling frustration or aggression after being rejected is a different matter, developmental psychologist Michelle Achterberg has discovered. Using fMRI techniques, the development of the child brain has now been studied for the first time in a large sample study.
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Mar 12, 2020
District Administration – Matt Zalaznick
As coronavirus concerns convinced more superintendents to close more schools Wednesday, school lunch and student safety issues had experts debating the best response. “Closing the schools before anyone in the schools is sick is a very difficult thing to do, even though it’s probably extremely beneficial and much wiser,” Nicholas Christakis, a Yale University sociologist and physician, told NPR on Wednesday. But other experts interviewed by NPR cautioned that closing schools may have little impact because COVID-19 hasn’t been making students particularly ill. Also, many of those students rely on schools for meals, a safe environment and other necessities.
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