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4 good practices for anyone caring for quarantined kids

  • Written by Erika Bocknek, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Wayne State University
All families need to establish a new normal.Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

About 55 million U.S. schoolchildren attend schools that have been closed or are being directly affected by the new coronavirus social distancing rules. Erika London Bocknek, a family therapist who studies early childhood development, parenting and family...

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