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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Caroline Jalfin Being a working parent/guardian is challenging enough without the COVID crisis. And, let’s include “stay-at-home-parent” as working, shall we? Anyone who has spent five minutes at home with a mom or dad with young children, understands...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Creating and posting a family rule chart is a win-win activity for both young children and for the adults who care for them. We know that little ones benefit from predictable environments where there are clear and visible...

Depressed. Anxious. Lonely. These are just a few of the emotions that parent (and especially mother) employees have reported feeling since the beginning of the pandemic. My hunch is everyone reading this post will recognize at least a few of the following dismal results from...

Many parents feel like we are riding an emotional rollercoaster right now: angry, frustrated, joyful, surprised, excited, fearful. All in the span of an hour. With kids at home, our rollercoasters and theirs are moving simultaneously, sometimes aligned, sometimes at opposite ends of the emotional...

It’s been almost two months now. Two long months of physical distancing, of adhering to the Governor’s stay-at-home advisory, of working from home while assisting our kids with online instruction, of acquiring and wearing masks, and of keeping a distant but worried watch over our own...