Jun 18, 2020
The Washington Post – Valerie Strauss
Summer has just started and parents are already panicking about how to keep their children engaged during the covid-19 crisis that has severely limited their activity options. After several months indoors, with school buildings closed to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, both children and their parents want to get outdoors — but many camps and other usual summer pursuits have been moved online rather than in-person if they haven’t been canceled outright.
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Jun 17, 2020
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
Parents/carers of children aged 4-10 years of age reported that over a one-month period in lockdown, they saw increases in their child’s emotional difficulties, such as feeling unhappy, worried, being clingy and experiencing physical symptoms associated with worry, according to early results from the Co-SPACE study, asking parents and carers about their children’s mental health through the COVID-19 crisis.
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Jun 17, 2020
Moms – Ashley Wehrli
We are slowly seeing the quarantine ending all over the world, and that means that we are starting to notice the repercussions that have happened due to it. COVID-19 brought a halt to travel, time with friends and family and shopping. Planes were grounded, everyone was stuck in their home, and all you could do was shop online and wait weeks for an order to come. While we know that this is having major impacts on the economy of countries all over the world, it is also affecting the health of children everywhere.
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Jun 16, 2020
Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
What happens to teenagers whose parents are overbearing? A new longitudinal study sought to determine the long-term impact on youth of parenting that is psychologically controlling. Although the study did not establish causation, it found that overbearing and overcontrolling tactics by parents when children were 13 years old were associated with difficulties in social relationships and educational attainment by the time the teens reached age 32.
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Jun 16, 2020
Medical X-Press – Amy Norton
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) generally fare better when they have a clear routine. Now, a new study suggests that as the coronavirus pandemic turned family schedules upside down, kids’ symptoms often worsened.
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