Communication, practicing health measures at home can help children with back-to-school fears, experts say

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While returning to school can be exciting, it can also be nerve-wracking for some, especially during a pandemic. To help children cope with anxiety, experts recommend parents communicate with their kids, have them practice wearing face masks at home and hold weekly family meetings.

Eleven-year-old Zion Shadd admits he is"I don't want to get coronavirus," Shadd said in an interview with CTV News. "It's like everything's changed and completely different."

With the return to school, children will have to adjust to new coronavirus norms in the classroom including physical distancing, mask-wearing and, in some provinces, teachers dressed in personal protective equipment. "Younger kids may get more clingy, more tearful whereas teenagers may get more irritable and snappish," child psychologist Ann Marie Joyce explained.

 

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FU

STOP just fucking STOP all this fear porn. We are going to traumatize little children for life. The little ones in daycare and kindergarten are in heir most formative years. We are teaching them to fear others and the big bad virus that DOES NOT KILL THEM.

...and by turning off media who tries to generate viewership by instilling fear and panic.

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