covid
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COVID in the house: How to best prepare yourself and your family
Read Essay →: COVID in the house: How to best prepare yourself and your familyAfter two and a half years, we finally had COVID in the house. I’m certainly grateful for science (we’re all…
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The impact of Covid on kids: Anya Kamenetz on what we know and what we don’t yet | Spawned Ep 285
Read Essay →: The impact of Covid on kids: Anya Kamenetz on what we know and what we don’t yet | Spawned Ep 285This week on Spawned, I have the honor of welcoming back the wonderful Anya Kamenetz, NPR Education reporter and author,…
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Wonderful children’s books about anxiety: for kids who are worried about the world around them
Read Essay →: Wonderful children’s books about anxiety: for kids who are worried about the world around themWe were actually surprised to realize that that we hadn’t yet put together a list for parents of children’s books…
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How the Breathwrk app is helping with stress, anxiety, and focus. (Things we could all use more help with these days.)
Read Essay →: How the Breathwrk app is helping with stress, anxiety, and focus. (Things we could all use more help with these days.)This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Breathwrk app As we (ahem, parents) come up two years since…
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Pandemic fails, data-driven parenting, and how to make better decisions for your family, with author Emily Oster | Spawned Podcast episode 262
Read Essay →: Pandemic fails, data-driven parenting, and how to make better decisions for your family, with author Emily Oster | Spawned Podcast episode 262In the course of our parenting lives, we make a whole lot of decisions, so when I read Emily Oster’s…
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Answering parents top questions about the Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5-11 | Spawned Ep 260
Read Essay →: Answering parents top questions about the Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5-11 | Spawned Ep 260While some of us (including Kristen and myself) are rejoicing about the approval of the Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5-11,…
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10 fun just-because cards for a friend who could use a little pick-me-up right now. It’s hard out there.
Read Essay →: 10 fun just-because cards for a friend who could use a little pick-me-up right now. It’s hard out there.Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to support my fellow pandemic parents, and I’ve landed on sending some…
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The one trick to make sure your child’s face mask fits properly, to comply with the brand new CDC recommendations.
Read Essay →: The one trick to make sure your child’s face mask fits properly, to comply with the brand new CDC recommendations.After 18 months (sigh) it’s now clear that we’re past the point of “any mask is better than nothing” for…
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Mask mandates, the Delta variant, and back to school: Who will protect our children?
Read Essay →: Mask mandates, the Delta variant, and back to school: Who will protect our children?I thought this back to school year was going to be different than last year. I think everyone did. Last…
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Parents are broken. Here are 5 things a therapist says we can do right now to manage our stress.
Read Essay →: Parents are broken. Here are 5 things a therapist says we can do right now to manage our stress.Over the last 24 hours, this pandemic has caught up to me. I’d been doing pretty well, navigating cyber school…