Returning back to school may help children address increasing anxiety.<\/p>\n
As school systems across the country move toward bringing children back to school in person, parents\u2019 anxiety has increased yet again, despite thinking it was already at an all-time high.<\/p>\n
While some children have been attending school in person for months, most have not. Most schools have been virtual, posing a variety of problems from basic access to technology to the damage caused by staring at a screen for hours to the anxiety and depression due to isolation from other students.<\/p>\n
Parents are struggling to work and oversee their children at the same time.<\/p>\n
Teachers are being asked to do the near-impossible by maintaining online and in-person teaching concurrently while preserving their own health and that of their families.<\/p>\n
One teacher recently shared her plan with me on how to talk to a child privately, whether in person or online.<\/p>\n
Most professionals agree that children are generally better off in school\u2014but these are not \u201cgeneral\u201d normal times.<\/p>\n\t\n \n
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