This is the May 10, 2021, edition of the 8 to 3 newsletter about school, kids and parenting. We’d given up almost our entire social life to stay safe — even our public religious observance, which we’d been set to resume that week. How should we weigh our children’s need for social interaction and our own desire to hang out with them in public against the real — if much diminished — risks of COVID? Advertisement“I have to remind parents, just because COVID’s out there doesn’t mean other viruses have taken a vacation,” she said. “If you remain calm as parents, you also empower [your children] to keep themselves safe.”AdvertisementHow are you coping?

Source: Los Angeles Times May 11, 2021 02:03 UTC