Children need the opportunity to ask questions and have them answered by experts in ways they can understand. A briefing may reduce children’s anxiety and increase their understanding of the pandemic.
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Each year, parents consider when to start allowing their children to commute to school unsupervised. During the coronavirus pandemic, there are additional concerns.
Children need to learn how to manage their own accounts and passwords as an extension of their identity.
The World Health Organisation now recommends children aged 12 years and older wear masks and that masks should be considered for those aged 6-11 years.
School nurses were already overwhelmed, with hundreds of students and staff in their charge. Now, COVID-19 screenings and testing have become their priority.
Seeking help for their own distress, creating a warm and cohesive family environment and focusing on some of the silver linings may help parents safeguard their children’s mental health.
A professor reflects on his four decades of working with families dealing with grief and how the program he helped set up could be applied today.
While financial compensation should be offered, there needs to be more understanding of the impact of such payments.
TikTok is caught in a political battle between the US and China but children are still using the video-sharing app. Here are some tips on how to make sure they are safe.
Any decision that places a child’s physical and mental health at risk shouldn’t be taken lightly, so policy-makers and parents alike should listen to those most affected — the children themselves.
Watching coronavirus coverage can cause anxiety in your child. An expert offers some tips that will help.
Visits between foster children and their biological families are being disrupted and reunification hearings delayed.
There is no clear delineation of roles and responsibilities relating to the integration of clean water, sanitation, safe hygiene and nutritional status.
Children think adults should be more transparent about not knowing everything,
For children, getting outdoors helps to aid their exploration of the world – it’s how they learn best.
The earned income tax credit lifts around 6 million of the working poor out of poverty every year, but with the economy hammered by COVID-19, many might not get the benefit they need.
Research shows that children can become infected with the coronavirus and spread it to others. Though rare, some kids do become severely ill and a few have died from COVID-19.
Hundreds of Australian children aged ten to 13 are in juvenile detention. Legal and medical experts say we must raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14.
False beliefs about the brain, called neuromyths, are ubiquitous in education. Is there any hope of debunking them?
Children will probably be OK, especially if their families make sure this elevated level of screen time doesn’t turn into a long-term habit.
Top contributors
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Elizabeth Handsley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Child Development, Staffordshire University
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Doctoral Researcher: Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Associate Professor at MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal
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Paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne and MCRI, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
