PARENTING
School-Age
Mission Possible: COVID-19 Unwrapped for Kids
Our Child Life team at UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center offers some thoughts to help you talk to kids about COVID-19. There are other resources for children available on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Be aware of your emotions. This is an …
Keep Calm and Quarantine On
Is social distancing making you wonder what to do for the next few weeks? If you have small kids, spending weeks at home, not seeing friends, and avoiding public places could make the time seem to drag on. Our Child Life team at UMass Memorial Medical …
20 Seconds Is What it Takes
A single gram of human feces ”which is about the weight of a paper clip” can contain one trillion germs. Estimated global rates of handwashing after using the toilet are only 19 percent. If that doesn’t make you become a hand-washer, then keep reading! People …
