Protecting Children, Helping Parents
The changes in how children and families conduct themselves during these weeks of quarantine have placed enormous burdens on everyone involved. Children no longer have access to those many systems that they have become accustomed to participating in outside the home: schools, play groups, organized sports and other activities, and simple neighborhood gatherings with friends. Similarly, parents now have to remain in close quarters with their children in the absence of such opportunities, having to serve as parent, teacher, and activity director, all with no end in sight. After all, the outside world has always provided other folks to take care of these things which gave everyone on the home front a break from each other.