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Neighborhood-based friendships making a comeback for kids in the age of coronavirus

  • Written by Julie Wargo Aikins, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute, Wayne State University
imageA new social world for children may be right outside their front door.Martin Novak/Movement via Getty Images

As the weather has warmed in my Midwestern town, my neighborhood is full of children on bicycles pretending to be riding through the Wild West. I can’t walk down the sidewalk without stepping on chalk drawings or hopscotch boards....

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