Camps are 'the canary in the coal mine' for kids' social lives; Delta is filling up hospitals; and more from NYT Parenting.
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Kids are nervous about returning to school, not only because of potential coronavirus transmission, but because they've forgotten how to, well … be kids. During on-and-off lockdowns and virtual classes, many children have had to adjust to little-to-no in-person social spontaneity. So a return to school, and its attendant social scene, may be a little unnerving. |
Children who were fortunate enough to attend summer camp, however, got a glimpse of relative normalcy and lessons in how to relate to other kids, for better or for worse, Julie Satow writes this week. |
"Camps are the canary in the coal mine," Dr. Laura Blaisdell, a pediatrician and an unofficial medical adviser to the American Camp Association, told Julie. "Schools need to be prepared for the physicality and emotionality that we've seen in camps." |
In addition to the social issues that might crop up, top of mind for parents is the Delta variant and how to keep their children safe in school. The variant is sending more kids to the hospital, though it is unclear whether it causes more severe disease for them than other coronavirus variants, Emily Anthes reports. |
Well's Tara Parker-Pope taps Linsey Marr of Virginia Tech, an expert on virus transmission and a mother of two, for advice on how to keep kids safer in school. |
In Opinion, two pediatricians, Drs. Kanecia Zimmerman and Danny Benjamin Jr., detail their study of mask efficacy and virus transmission involving more than one million children. "Although vaccination is the best way to prevent Covid-19, universal masking is a close second, and with masking in place, in-school learning is safe and more effective than remote instruction, regardless of community rates of infection," they find. |
Jane E. Brody writes that with our collective focus on academics, we can often neglect the importance of physical, mental and social health for all school children. There's a solution, she says: school-based health centers that treat "cuts and bruises, but also provide a suite of health services including primary, mental and dental care." |
Finally, Ruth Whippman argues in Opinion that we are not teaching boys enough about being human by peddling stories about action heroes and otherworldly adventures almost exclusively to them. |
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Need to blow your super-squirmy 18-month-old's mind for three minutes while you wrestle them into a fresh diaper? My distraction pro tip: Try beatboxing. Your lips will go numb, but your toddler will go quiet. Success! — Lauren Fleming, Tiburon, Calif. |
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